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Continue reading →: So I’m Not a Boomer?
H/T to my Facebook friend, Gerry Os … “Why People Born 1955-1964 Aren’t Baby Boomers“. I was born in 1960. I mean, how many years after World War II do you have to be born to not be considered a Boomer? Apparently, I’m a member of “Generation Jones”… short for…
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Continue reading →: Coronavirus (37): An Indexical Reflection
This is the thirty-seventh and final installment to my Coronavirus series, which began two years ago on this date. This installment serves as an index to the entire series. I use the word “indexical” not only to suggest the index herein, but as a reflection of the word’s actual meaning:…
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Continue reading →: Mis-Corrected Auto
For those of us who have suffered at the fate of ‘autocorrect’ …
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1935
Song of the Day: Take My Breath features the words and music of a host of writers, including The Weeknd, whose music I’m highlighting this weekend. This song has a throwback 80s feel, and there’s no doubt that the Weeknd, like so many others in his generation, has been deeply…
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Continue reading →: Memories of Dad
As ballroom dancers, Mom and Dad met on the dance floor. Nobody could cut a rug doing a swift Peabody or a Lindy-Hop better! Dad always said if he had to die, he wanted to go out dancing. And that is exactly what he was doing when he died on…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1934
Song of the Day: Blinding Lights features the words and music of Max Martin, Oscar Holter, Belly, DaHeala, and Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, known to the world as The Weeknd. This uptempo song recently displaced “The Twist” as the longest-charting song in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, having spent…
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Continue reading →: C4SS: Enough with The Isms!
I enjoyed an Alex Aragona article published on the site of Center for a Stateless Society: “No One is Talking About Capitalism — In Your Sense“. Alex points to many of the problems that I, myself, have noted with using the word “capitalism” in so many different ways that it…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1933
Song of the Day: Bring Back the Time, words and music by Lars Jensen and Donnie Wahlberg, is a throwback tribute to 1980s pop, and features New Kids on the Block, Rick Astley, Salt-N-Pepa, and En Vogue. It’s a hoot to watch this collaboration, which made its video debut on…
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Continue reading →: Paul Cantor, RIP
I was shocked to learn today (H/T to FB friend Shal Marriott) of the death (on February 26, 2022) of Paul Cantor, the American literary critic who was the Clifton Waller Barrett Professor in the English Department at the University of Virginia. Paul was 76. Born in Brooklyn, New York…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1932
Song of the Day: The Untouchables (“Soundtrack Suite”) [YouTube link], composed by Ennio Morricone, is one of the highlights to this 1987 prohibition-era crime film, directed by Brian De Palma, and starring Kevin Costner (as Eliot Ness), Robert De Niro (as Al Capone), Andy Garcia, and the Oscar-winning Sean Connery.…
