June 2012
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[Insert Sigh of Relief Here]
A list of things we have accomplished in the past five weeks:
1. Son’s First Communion
2. Daughter’s concert
3. Mother’s Day
4. Two parties of LI for neices’ Communions, different weekends.
5. Saw The Avengers - and LOVED it in 2D.
6. Print edition deadline - Top Quant Schools, yo.
7. Daughter’s Confirmation & party. Also celebrated son’s 8th...
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Confessions of a Master Spy Novelist
You have an odd-looking word processor. Why not write on a computer?
This is an IBM Lexmark Wheelwriter. It’s a very different activity to hit the “g” key and have the “g” appear on the paper after the key has been hit. I like it so much I have a bunch of them. I stockpile them for parts. I do have to clean them with Q-tips and alcohol, where all you do with a...
May 2012
28 posts
“Yet another mass shooting incident, this time in Seattle. Why do these sad sack...”
“I will say one thing for the Apple store in Grand Central - they keep the marble...”
– Me, tonight after buying my fifth keyboard.
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Joe Biden - Hero of the week?
He’s still a buffoon but you have to hand it to Joe Biden — he got his boss to make history today.
“Today Obama did more than make a logical step. He let go of fear. He is clearly...”
– Andrew Sullivan on President Obama’s support for gay marriage. A big day after the debacle in North Carolina yesterday.
North Carolina passes gay marriage ban
I guess NC’s new law is a good night for Rick Santorum? He spoke this crap fluently after all. I wonder if he regrets dropping out.
Building Tension
Had an odd moment during the final fight scene in The Avengers. Buildings are being destroyed left and right but in one shot a skyscraper crumbles. It’s in the background, practically in the corner of the screen and it looks like it is sinking behind the other buildings. The shot’s maybe three or four seconds long and of course the pixels are all fake but the feeling of nausea was a...
“Sometimes I forget to eat. Right now I’m 125 pounds and five foot, eleven...”
– Courtney Love in New York mag.
April 2012
24 posts
“We never know why great people do what they do. Maybe Jesus was just trying to...”
– Roger Sterling
See, Santorum was right. →
Seeing Calvin Coolidge In a Dream
When the news broke around Easter that National Review had fired John Derbyshire as a contributing writer my head spun. After reading him for years I could tell that his weary and deadly pessimistic conservatism - everything is rotting and even the past was awful - was going to cause him to cross the line one day. Well, he did. In an essay that mirrored ‘the talk’ black parents have...
