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This appeared one day last week in Dear Abby: DEAR ABBY: I read the obituaries in our local newspaper every day to see if someone I know has died. But when I don't see any familiar name, I feel let down and disappointed. Is that weird? — STILL ALIVE IN SAN DIEGO Here's the heading…
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Weekend Music I saw these guys in concert Tuesday night. Most enjoyable. This was their encore. The most striking thing they did–not the best, but the most unusual and attention-getting–was a piece in which they did things to their guitars that made them sound like a gamelan orchestra. Yes, really. Mostly it seemed to…
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Dick Cheney's daughters are feuding because one of them is a lesbian who has a "wife," and the other believes marriage requires two people of opposite sexes. The former says the latter is on the wrong side of history. It's a charge one hears pretty frequently. I can imagine few things less likely to make…
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Read the excerpt from the Dear Abby piece at the top of the page. (Click to enlarge if you can't make it out.)
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The more I think about the conclusion of that "Eleven Nations" piece (see previous post), the more it bothers me. What makes it so troubling is that it envisions no other outcome to the national conflict than having one side crush the other. This reveals something about the thinking of contemporary liberals. I doubt you…
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Weekend Music That's so good–let's have another from the same album, Shine, this one with Emmylou Harris.
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This has been getting some attention for several days now: a sort of cultural map of the U.S. based on the varying cultures of origin of current inhabitants. The first thing I noticed is that it conforms to what I was saying in a discussion with Art Deco a few weeks ago about the culture…
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As I've often lamented, the little town where I live has gotten all uppity and is overrun with rich people, many of whom are artsy, which is sometimes almost as bad as uppity. But there are benefits, too, and one of them is that there is now a Fairhope Film Festival. It ran Friday through…
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I've had these two movies on DVR for quite a while now, recorded from Turner Classic Movies. I'm sure it's been over a year, and it may be two, because I think I recorded them not long after we subscribed to AT&T's Uverse service for Internet and TV. (The TV part is soon going to…
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Weekend Music Demonstrating the folly of trying to associate music very closely with specific images and narratives, the heavily reverbed guitar sound has somehow become associated with the desert as well as with the ocean. You hear it a lot in movie sound tracks and commercials, though frequently it's a dobro or other slide guitar…
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