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If you remaster, repackage, and/or reissue your music one more time, I’m going to start calling you over-rated. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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This was nice to read: …he was not old. Only sixtyish. —Elizabeth Goudge, Pilgrim’s Inn I was persuaded to read this book by Janet Cupo, who went so far as to supply me with a copy. I knew nothing about the author beyond a vague idea that I’d heard the name. But I’m already willing…
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What should have happened. I’ve always said there is something strange about tequila. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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When people in your town or state do something really dumb, the best thing to do is just roll with it. In that spirit, I present to you: the Crichton leprechaun. Perhaps you never heard of the Crichton leprechaun. Crichton is a neighborhood in Mobile. A few years ago, around St. Patrick’s Day, someone in…
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I finished reading it several days ago and am now, as time permits, skimming over it again, re-reading passages I’d marked, and thinking about it. I’m going to try to write something about it this weekend, so I invite anyone else who’s ready to discuss it to do so then. Two broad observations: (1) it…
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There’s a feeling I getWhen I look to the west… This is what I saw from my front yard last Thursday evening. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I’ve sometimes heard people of my generation joke about this phrase, as if everyone was familiar with it, and with drills held in schools where the children were taught to hide under their desks to protect themselves in a nuclear attack. I never knew the origin of the jokes, as these lessons apparently never reached…
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I suppose it’s inevitable that as one gets older the tendency to think that the world is declining gets stronger. I do try to keep that tendency in check, but sometimes the evidence is really pretty persuasive: for instance in the case of television journalism. I was never a great admirer of Walter Cronkite. Watching…
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I’ve really given it a fair shot. Over the past couple of months my wife and I have seen four of the most highly regarded Leone westerns: A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and Once Upon a Time in the West. And it’s not because…
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Antiaphrodite AKA Thornweaver has moved her blog to WordPress. It’s still called Fountains of Angelwine, or rather fountains of angelwine, and I’ve changed the sidebar link accordingly. This one is considerably more readable, I think. Also, you don’t have to register in order to comment. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js