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Quick, without stopping to think: what does this sentence mean?: Astronauts speak to the Queen from space Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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I never look at those long, long lists of links that many blogs have–they are generally far too many to investigate, especially with no hint other than a presumption of common interests with the current blog as to what they're like. So I've avoided having such a list here, but I'm going to be adding…
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A Few Notes on The Sirens of Titan (When I say “notes,” I mean it literally; these are brief impressions, not an essay, and each paragraph may be a separate fragment.) Thinking about Kurt Vonnegut on the occasion of his death a few weeks ago prompted me to read this novel for the first time.…
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Van Morrison: Veedon Fleece This is one of those uneven albums whose unevenness you forgive because the good tracks are so extremely good. With, by my reckoning, seven out of ten tracks worthy to be ranked with Astral Weeks and Moondance, this has to be considered one of Morrison’s best, in spite of its lapses.…
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Some financial planning company is running commercials directed at soon-to-be-retiring baby boomers. I've seen them, and they make me want to throw something at the tv: they're all about how you, the coolest people that ever were, are not about to settle for some stodgy rocking-chair retirement. Grainy clips of protest marchers and flower children…
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Homeless Conservatives: Making it Official? As often happens, I’ve changed my mind at the last minute about this week’s journal. The catalyst is this post at Crunchy Con and its associated comments, which consider the place of social conservatives in a political realignment which might follow the current troubles of the Republican Party, which is…
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Patty Loveless: Mountain Soul This aptly-title collection is pure straight-up country music, which is the kind I like. I don’t listen to all that much country music, and when I do I like for it to be the genuine article, not just pop music with twangy vocals and a fiddle. Mountain Soul could be loosely…
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For the most part I've never found the comedy classics of the silent film area to be terribly funny. Chaplin, for instance: I'm not sure I've ever laughed out loud at one of his films. So when we started the 75 minutes of Buster Keaton's The General one night last weekend I fully expected to…
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I'm checking in a software module that I checked out back in December (rcs, for any Unix folks who might happen to read this), meaning it's available to be modified by me and only me. When I check it in I'm supposed to include a log message that briefly explains the mod. I list the…
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As you may have noticed, Music of the Week has sort of run aground over the past month or so. Among other things, certain obstacles have arisen to my listening routine, making it difficult to spend enough time with one work in the space of a week to come up with anything I'd trust as…
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