2007, I miss you already. I don’t often do full-scale year-in-review pieces, but I have always enjoyed reading them. In particular, my work-friend Pete’s 2007 in review was particularly striking to me. I liked his idea of top ten moments…
Month: January 2008
Duck and Cover #821
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Be Here Now
People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never shared No one dared Disturb the sounds of Silence I think “Sounds of Silence” may have been about cellphones. There’s been a whole new level of…
Duck and Cover #820
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It’s Bad to Be Right
Maybe I should’ve made numeric predictions after all. What’s utterly hilarious to me about the current political situation is how the script of what’s going on ratchets back and forth so quickly. Two weeks ago, this was Hillary’s nomination to…
Duck and Cover #819
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Independence
Yesterday was rather surreal, all told, and a good bit volatile as well in the face of some long odds and a decent amount of personal boredom. I am in what I might describe as a sort of fugue state…
Duck and Cover #818
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It’s Good to Be Wrong
And now I’m back. From outer space. If by “outer space,” I mean “a cabin in the woods with the Garin Clan.” And I do. As far as Iowa goes, Henry Clay once said “I’d rather be right than President.”…
Duck and Cover #817
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