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American football, I mean. Really, it is. And in the New York Times. You don't have to know anything about football, just that Tim Tebow plays quarterback, which is the single most important position on a football team, that he was one of the top players in the country when he was in college but hasn't…
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The Waning of Adulthood This is a subject that comes to mind for me sometimes when I've been watching old, which is to say roughly pre-1960, movies or TV shows, or even listening to the classic American popular songs of the pre-rock-and-roll 20th century. To develop fully a thesis on this topic would require a…
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Weekend Music The past couple of weeks have seen the passing of these two musicians who did much to broaden the horizons of music lovers in the 1950s and 1960s. Even people who didn't care much for jazz owned The Dave Brubeck Quartet's Time Out. Everybody knows "Take Five" (actually written by Paul Desmond, the…
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Sometimes when one uses the word "inconceivable" that is exactly what one means.
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I had definitely mixed feelings about the Lord of the Rings movies. The last of those three was the subject of the very first Sunday Night Journal, back in 2004. Since then my view of them has grown more negative. I think my complaint that The films seem driven by a compulsion to overstate and overdo, to…
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So just watch.
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Good post for her feast day at The Three Prayers, with a couple of songs/hymns that you really should hear.
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I just did it again: referred to my iPod as a Walkman. And I was already over 30 when the Walkman appeared, or at least when I first heard about it. I remember a co-worker, some thirty years ago, painting an amusing picture of the nursing home of the future, full of decrepit hippies demanding…
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Some Pictures I had a very busy weekend which left me with no time to write about the thing I'd been thinking about in odd moments over the week. Such thoughts as I had were pretty disorganized and I'm not sure the whole thing, which had to do with the nature of adulthood in our…
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I'm a bit late with this, but: one at The Three Prayers and one at Castle in the Sea.
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