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Lincoln
First things first: Lincoln is a great movie – one of the best I’ve seen in years. All the “mechanics” were just outstanding – great acting, directing, the way it was shot and paced, intelligent...
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It Had To Be Like That: First Hurdle Surmounted
For IU, you just knew it had to come down to this. And if you are an IU fan, you just know it had to end the way it did. In a season of ups and downs it had to come down to the last game of the...
View ArticleR.I.P.
I am not a British subject (also, there is something about that term that is disturbing), so let me state from the outset that I am not really qualified to offer judgment on what you probably think...
View ArticleOne Thing Leads To Another
As one moves through life, gradual evidence accumulates to prove that the “sayings” of previous generations – drilled into you as a child through the reproaches of relatives, the thread-bare...
View ArticleI Think You’ll Need To Watch This More Than Once
I came across the video, below, last week. It is David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement address to the graduating seniors of Kenyon College. Now, to me, commencement addresses have the approximate...
View ArticleWe Will Be Served
IN AMERICA alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only...
View ArticleThe Longest Day
“…In two weeks it’ll be the longest day in the year.” She looked at us all radiantly. “Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the...
View ArticleSometimes It’s Fun To Not Go Out Very Much Because Of The Way Things Look...
Okay, I admit it: I don’t get out very much. And, I am sure, this must have many deleterious implications for myself as a social being (there may be, possibly, positive implications as well, I just...
View ArticleLife: A Partial Review
It is never altogether pleasant to remember a particular phase of your life that transcends decades (and, oh, what a shock to speak casually, prodigally of my life being measured in decades!). The...
View ArticleA Summer’s Lesson…
As the days get shorter and more grey and more cool, I have been thinking over the things that Summer brought, the things that now have to be put away. This Summer I had some mobility issues and then...
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