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Pop songs are sad songs

My key pop music memories primarily imprinted themselves on my trembling consciousness at after-show theater parties when I was an undergrad in the early 1980′s. The hot items were Michael Jackson...

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The Old Adventures of Superman

Apart from Stevereads and the Ihnatko Alamanac have to say on the matter, I have paid no attention to the DC Comics reboot of its entire line of superhero comics. So when I see references to it in the...

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Moffat, Davies, and the New Who

Ross Ruediger had a rather sour take on season 6 of Doctor Who. He had problems with Matt Smith‘s puppydog energy and showrunner Steven Moffat‘s “celebration of the clever” in dialogue and plotting the...

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“Asylum of the Daleks”

Oh dear, my carefully crafted image as a man of the book and too clever by half will now fall to the ground when I talk about “Doctor Who” fanboyishness. Ah well — let the egg roll, as they say.  I...

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How I rate songs in iTunes

I never fiddled with iTunes before I bought my iPod 5G in 2010 as my birthday present to myself. I found — and still find — iTunes to be both useful and maddening. Kirk McElhearn’s Take Control of...

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Having fun with Wikipedia

Wikipedia has become such a daily part of my online life (like email — remember life before email? Anyone?), that it’s both startling and a little thrilling to find outré articles or even stray...

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Panhandlers

On my old blog, I devoted a long post to thinking about moral and ethical responses to panhandling. One economist suggested only giving money to those who are not asking for money; a playwright...

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Remembering Harvey Pekar on his birthday

  Hat tip to Southern Folklife Collection’s Facebook feed Related posts: Snarky Facebook e-cards On unfriending or unfollowing people Birthday horoscope for Sept. 24 The day I got no research done...

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Restored Radios exhibit

Durham is growing its own crop of local businesses — not just local artists and boutique eateries, but also a love of handmade crafts and the pleasure of both making and admiring objects that, as...

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The Rise and Fall of Mr. Zip

Informative and fun little article on the US Postal Service’s push to get Americans to add a 5-digit ZIP code to their envelopes and post cards. The effort started in 1963 and it took almost 20 years...

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Tonight, for whatever reason, a little Laurel & Hardy was indicated…

Because, some nights, I just need an earworm that will put a smile on my face…. …and then I need to follow it up with another earworm and a little softshoe.   Related posts: Snarky Facebook e-cards...

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Durham Comics Project

The Durham County Library has some great librarians interested in graphic novels and cartooning. Here’s a link to the Durham Comics Project site, with an absolutely charming little strip drawn by a...

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DOOMSDAY IS … Friday (for 2014)

Which means that Friday falls on:   the last day of February (this is the key fact if you remember nothing else. Doomsday is always the last day in February for every year.) 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, and...

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A word fraught with meaning

The Night is Fraught With Peril (Photo credit: Thomas Hawk) I like embroidering my plainspoken, earthy, everyday, quotidian speech with particularly Victorianesque embellishments and verbally diabolic...

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Domestic Comedy

Exchange between me and Liz as we drove past Ravenscroft school. ME. That’s where Matthew did his play. LIZ. Yeah, that musical about Noah’s ark. He was Ham. ME. (Pause. ) (Seriously.) He was doing his...

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The Conet Project

Closeup of Dorchester antenna (featured on Conet Project CD cover) I must have heard about the shortwave numbers stations years ago on this Lost and Found Sound recording for NPR’s All Things...

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Generic Corporate Promo Video

Everything You Hate About Advertising in One Fake Video That’s Almost Too Real | Adweek. Satire could be defined as “that which seeks to improve.” Or, as Dick Cavett reported George S. Kaufman saying,...

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Goodbyes: Irish and Serbian

This is something I used to do more in my 20s but never knew there was a name for: the “Irish goodbye,” said of someone who leaves a party without saying their farewells to the host, the other guests,...

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