http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/fashion/02sabbath.html In short, my name is Mark, and I’m a techno-addict. But after my airplane experience, I decided to do something about it. Thus began my “secular Sabbath” – a term I found floating around on blogs – a day a week where I would be free of screens, bells and beeps. An old-fashioned day […]
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And the Band Played Badly – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09mccallsmith.html?_r=1&em&ex=1205294400&en=2577a894a7e814e3&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin Another well-cured article that bears posting. In fact, I’m surprised nobody had “discovered” it ahead of me. Certainly speaks to why Stumble Upon is loosing its grip on me… Alexander McCall Smith explores that bizarre British tradition of supporting those “artistes” (cf. Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards, William Topaz McGonagall) who are so outlandishly bad […]
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Cloverfield – Movies – Review – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/movies/18clov.html I’m learning to like Manohla Dargis, the relatively new NYTimes film reviewer. This Cloverfield* review may cinch it – it’s like A.O. Scott on bitchy pills. For a brief, hopeful moment, I thought the filmmakers might be making a point about how the contemporary compulsion to record the world has dulled us to actual […]
Anarchists in the Aisles? Stores Provide a Stage – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/us/24shopdrop.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&oref=slogin This is the season of frenetic shopping, but for a devious few people it’s also the season of spirited shopdropping. Otherwise known as reverse shoplifting, shopdropping involves surreptitiously putting things in stores, rather than illegally taking them out, and the motivations vary. Sometimes I need an “undecided” thumb in my SU toolbar. The idea […]
Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With Matching Ego, Dies at 84 – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/books/11mailer.html?pagewanted=all Another missed obit, this time for larger-than-life writer, Norman Mailer. I’ve read and re-read The Executioner’s Song, and have seen him in a fascinating interview with a French documentarian. For these, I’m willing to excuse his brashness, his anti-woman 60s pronouncements, and the fact that I haven’t read any of his other works. But […]
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Tom Poston – Obituary – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/obituaries/02poston.html After 8 months away, with only haphazard access to The Internet ™, I’m catching up on the obits I’ve missed. Tom Poston (aka Mr. Bickley) was a fixture in most of the TV from my childhood, but my childish mind was clearly unattuned to straight man genius. Many of the anecdotes presented here are […]
Notable Deaths of 2007 – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/obituaries/notable-obits-2007.html The New York Times has a list of the year’s most notable obituaries, with a brief description of the individual’s claim to fame. A thoughtful addition: Richard Jewell, 44, hero of Atlanta Olympic bombing.
Homosexuality May Be Based on Biology, Baptist Says – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/us/16baptist.html The president of the leading Southern Baptist seminary has suggested that a biological basis for homosexuality may be proven, and that prenatal treatment to reverse gay orientation would be biblically justified. I’m surprised at – and disappointed with – the NYTimes for reprinting this non-starter story, as regurgitated from the Associated Press. About the […]
Restaurants in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Travel – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/travel/18choicetables.html Here’s a timely article on Ethiopian food; I had my first such meal last night, prepared by a thoughtful friend who knows my tolerance for heat and spice lies only slightly above black pepper. Injera, cumin/lentil hummus and – shock of healthy shocks – braised kale are now three of my favourite dishes. All […]
Killing of Briton by U.S. Pilot Was ‘Criminal,’ Coroner Rules – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/17/world/europe/17britain.html There is a Stumble currently making the rounds of WWII posters created by the US Army, which identify the headgear and uniforms of the Allied forces with the message, “This man is your FRIEND.” Apparently friendly fire deaths at the hands of American soldiers are a longstanding tradition. Since the invasions of Afghanistan and […]