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Before I Go
Apple released some more free GarageBand loops for .mac members this week. They’re all symphony pieces. After a walk down to the river with Olive and my wife–on which I took a few pictures–I threw together “Viola Song” (a lame allusion to Nick Drake‘s “Cello Song,” which is actually good) in an attempt to catch… — read more
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Retreat
I’m going upstate to sit quietly for a week. Don’t do anything until I get back. — read more
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No Kiwis Please
I’m an aficionado of accents. From the lilt of the West Indies to the brassy nasality of Long Island to the twang of the South, I love them all. My wife can’t talk to someone with a noticeable accent for more than five minutes without subconsciously adopting that accent herself. It’s one of the many… — read more
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From Today’s Onion
In order to boost available content, America Online is preparing to offer downloads of old television programs like Welcome Back, Kotter and Chico And The Man. What do you think? Jesse Glass, Machinist “Ah, the memories. Nothing says ‘My parents are getting divorced’ like the Kotter theme song.” That about sums it up. — read more
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Confessions on a Dance Floor
Speaking of celebrity cult members, Madonna‘s new album, Confessions on a Dance Floor is surprisingly good. It’s a return to the deeper dance music of the Erotica and Bedtime Stories era, but still more trancey and less pop, and with less of a point to make than either of those albums. It seems to be… — read more
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“Dad, Tom Cruise won’t come out of the closet!”
South Park has done to Scientology what the Pet Shop Boys did to Eminem a few years ago. It was one of the funnier non-Arrested Development half hours of television I’ve seen in quite some time. It will be interesting to see what tomorrow’s legal news bring. — read more
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Anger
Much has been said for and against anger, but my ultimate understanding of it is pragmatic: Any justification for my anger is of limited value against the suffering of actually being angry. — read more
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The War on SUVs
In a discussion that developed in the comments to an entry I posted about the different threats faced by New Yorkers and non-New Yorkers (in which I noted–perhaps hyperbolically–that “riding the subway is orders of magnitude safer than driving, so much so that even if there were a suicide bombing on the subway every day,… — read more
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Weftlogos Mamafesta
A while back, Meg sent me and several others a list of twenty-one questions about Weblogging. The questions ranged from “What strategies have you applied to traffic generation, if any?” to “Is there an ‘ideal’ blog length, in terms of word count?” to “What are the top five or so blogging tools you can’t do… — read more
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I [heart] New York
New Yorkers: We’re polite, and we’re a little crazy. — read more
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