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making up stories

Saturday, July 23, 2011

We love a good interview, and this one is wonderful. John Gardner was a novelist and critic, but he was also a teacher and a human, in the very best way. His writing about writing is generous, practical and principled. The Paris Review compiled the interview from four separate interviews conducted by Paul F. Ferguson, John [...]

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Madness

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

A very, very old video clip indeed; yet I had to check it out again after seeing this recent b-sides clip (check 05:30 and, of course, 07:43 mins), also starting out with that MADNESS.

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Omar Comin’

Saturday, April 23, 2011

BTW: “Omar comin’!  It be Omar!”

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After the Commodore 64, is NeXT next?

Friday, April 8, 2011

Now that the Commodore 64 has been revived, isn’t it time for the NeXT Computer to make a comeback?
NeXT was the computer system that Steve Jobs created during his years in exile from Apple in the late 1980s. Not only was the NeXT console stylistically beautiful, its processing system was also way ahead of its [...]

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SINGING FRANKLY

Sunday, March 6, 2011

‘… get into my car…’ – meet Frank Ocean, hilarious/genius crackpot son of Billy, if you will.

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STAND BY HARPER

Thursday, February 3, 2011

It never hurts to revisit classics, since they’re classics for a reason. Point in case: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. First read in 1989, now on my reading table again. Brave and beautiful.

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