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Monthly Archives: July 2006
In Martinsburg
Saturday morning I spent drinking coffee and reading a not-great short story anthology by a well-known American novelist, early-career efforts that were solidly mediocre, while I sat on Audrey and Charlie’s deck, listening to their neighbor running a backhoe across … Continue reading
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Contemporary American Theater Festival, 2006
This year’s festival includes a pair of memory plays, both of them premieres, Kim Merrill’s Sex, Death, and the Beach Baby and Keith Glover’s Jazzland. Merrill tells of a young woman haunted by a betrayal and death by drowning off … Continue reading
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Don’t call them Amish
Via Arts & Letters Daily, Stacey Chase visits Sabbathday Lake village in southern Maine, home to the last four surviving members of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, otherwise known as the Shakers. “I don’t know the … Continue reading
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Short bits of string: 1
Scott Rosenberg recaps outliner software.
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Well, that clears that up
Kee Malesky chooses not to choose: All transliterations of Arabic will be approximations, especially for vowel sounds. The NPR Foreign Desk prefers not to enforce one particular pronouncer for “Hezbollah” at this time. Our goal with pronouncers is clarity, and … Continue reading
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Old junk in new bottles
A new variant of Spanish prisoner/Nigerian 419 scam spam showed up today: Hello, Good day to you, my name is Bill Jeffers, I am an artist with my wife Susan Jeffers, and we are the owner of PORTFOLIO ARTWORKS INC … Continue reading
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Something there is that does love a wall
Happy birthday, Andy Goldsworthy.
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A little touch of Atget in New York
Via wood s lot, Irwin Klein’s Manhattan street photography from 1964-69. My favorite, of course, is the shot of a passage in the subway with a prominent West Side Downtown IRT sign.
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Flattop
As part of a gradual sprucing up, they’ve installed new tables in the Friendship Heights Booeymonger. In place of the funky butcher block tables with irregular tops that suggested organic molecules or a game of Pac-Man, there are tables with … Continue reading
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The guy leaning against your cube wall
Dean Young’s light-heartedly curmudges in “Sean Penn Anti-Ode:” Life, my friends, is ordinary crap…. The second DVD only the witlessly bored watch.
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Jill Kills, Vols. I & II
My friend Lisa Voss’s Jill Kills, Vols. I & II will be presented at the Capital Fringe Festival, July 22 through 25. Lisa’s dark comedies usually involve someone slinging metal (even if sometimes it’s only dental amalgam).
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Silly quizzes: 1
Via Bookslut: Wodehouse character or baseball player? I scored 17.5 out of 21.
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Whassup, gentlemen?
Viral marketing: John Scalzi explains how not to do it.
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I did not know that: 1
Spiral-bound notebooks weren’t invented until 1934? (Via Boing Boing.)
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Four Mile Run Trail
This afternoon I finished my traversal (on foot) of the short but interesting Four Mile Run Trail. The trail is one of two connections for cyclists looking to get from the Mount Vernon Trail along the Potomac to the Washington … Continue reading
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