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Ideas in Art, culture, technology, politics and life-- In Brooklyn or Beacon NY -- and Beyond (anyway, somewhere beginning with a "B")

Monday, January 24, 2011

Frozen pipes and colder noses: The Winter of 2011

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What's a body to do except shiver and moan. The cold, and the reaction to it, gets painful after awhile. Some pipes in walls exposed to ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Remembering Edgar Allan Poe, January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849

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Edgar Poe January 19, 1809(1809-01-19) Boston, Massachusetts, USA Died October 7, 1849(1849-10-07) (aged 40) Baltimore, Maryland, USA...
Monday, January 17, 2011

The Train Back to Brooklyn on Dr. Martin Luther King Day

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The young woman, leaning against the door of the Q train as it crossed the Manhattan Bridge back to Brooklyn, pulled her phone out of her ba...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Haiti: One Year Later

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Incredible that it was just one year ago that Haiti was rocked by a horrendous earthquake that toppled the country, destroying infrastructur...
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From Snowmageddon to Snowbigdeal

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The cruel alarm went off at 5 AM as usual, and it took another 15 minutes or so before 1010 WINS' Lee Harris announced, "drum roll ...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The Stylites (Not to Be Confused with the Chi-Lites)

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January 11th is the feast day of Theodosius the Cenobiarch. He was a great ascetic of the Eastern Orthodox Church. In his travels, when he r...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Closing Today: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936

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Adolf Ziegler, The Four Elements Ziegler's painting, highlighting the transition to the art of tbe Fascist era, was owned by Hitler and ...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Sega Introduces "Toylets" in Japanese Urinals

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Wired UK reports that: "Sega has announced that it's testing consoles called "Toylets" in urinals around Tokyo, which as...
Thursday, January 6, 2011

Not from "The Onion" - University Professor Arrested for Suspicious Bagel on Plane

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A Florida professor was arrested and removed from a plane Monday after his fellow passengers alerted crew members they thought he had a susp...
Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Ohio's Brooklyn-Born Panhandler With the Golden Voice

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Ted Williams, Brooklyn-born Ohio resident, on hard times, has an amazing radio voice, which has resulted in his discovery and a possible new...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

The Numerology of 2011

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"For the last dozen years or so, there has been a dominating presence of both the 0 and 1 and the 1 and 2 patterns. These are numbers t...
Thursday, December 30, 2010

Reflections in an Unploughed Street

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A lame duck plutocrat Mayor who is detached from governing? Labor organizations covertly fighting budget cuts and staffing reductions by a p...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

The Ploughman Cometh

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The ploughman finally arrived on our street at about 9:30 pm...and so one phase of the Blizzard of Late 2010 came to a conclusion....

CODA: Snowmageddon, continued

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Incredibly, it appears the uptown Q isn't running on the normal Q/B line, it is running on the D line between Coney Island-Stillwell and...

Snowmageddon, continued

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Following oral surgery last week, I needed a follow up visit with my oral surgeon. Of course, the Q wasn't running, and the #3 train, wh...
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