Thursday, October 28, 2010

Thinking Our Way Out of Disaster: The Watchman's Rattle

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The Watchman's Rattle by Rebecca Costa suggests that the only way to move civilization out of what appears to be its current decline is...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Nostalgia for the Future: Book? Check! Library card? Check! Checkout Desk? Nope – Self Check!

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As a Brooklyn native, I am a sucker for how some terribly familiar things in our communities change and how they remain the same. A few year...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Waiting for the Gubernator -- New York State's 2010 Debate for Governor

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Gubernatorial: Latin gubernator: governor, steersman, from gubernare, to govern First Known Use: 1734 Well that was really interesting. ...
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Monday, October 18, 2010

First as Comedy, Next as Tragedy, Third as....Disaster?

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David Rothkopf writing at NPR argues quite effectively that to grasp Washington, DC right now, watch 30 Rock: "Perhaps the greatest h...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Friday Lunchtime Ramble: Steel-Grey Waters and Brooklyn Bridge Park Starts to Take Shape

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Friday Groove: When the Cold Wind Comes, I Go Where the Dahlias Bloom

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Donald Fagen performing "Florida Room" an awesome, jazz tinged composition from his second solo album, Kamakyriad, in June 2010 ...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

American Dreamin': Banksy and the Simpsons

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If, like me, you thought UK Artist Banksy's film, "Exit Through the Gift Shop," in its perplexing mix of "what is real? w...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Roger that, Brooklyn:Thai Food and Space Travel

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Today's NY Times science section reported on the Brooklyn dad, Luke Geissbuhler, who launched a spaceship into the stratosphere. Fuhgedd...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

What's in a Date ? : 10-10-10

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11-11-11 12-12-12 - End of the Mayan Calendar
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Let There Be Google

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"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."       -  ...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson: "Life Sucks" - - and his life in particular

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Stage Setting with Moose, center. Above: "Elitist f*cks" Bloody great stage and lighting design at The Bernard Jacobs Theater...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

The Social Network: If you want a friend...

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There's a lot of anticipation for "The Social Network" and it is well deserved. While "The Social Network" is not a...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Boing! Pong! Hocus, Pocus, Avion! - Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - "Sue Egypt"

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Chills quick you Voices pick you Crows hex you [You love some?] post-'em avion Wizard Kiss and all be gone Scenes Dreams Boats ...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

Just Past "Super Harvest Moon" Tonight

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The Harvest Moon is the full Moon occurring closest to the autumnal equinox. When the full Moon occurs on the autumnal equinox,as it did thi...

CODA: R.I.P., Baby Opossum

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We had just returned from the New York Sports Club, and I was making a very nice salad for lunch when My Better Half came in and reported th...