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Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo, 2006)
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On 35mm at the Kabuki with Lucía, Ben, and Roberto on 24 June 2008 at 21:45.
Even though I haven’t seen enough of Rohmer’s films to make the assertion myself, the comparison between this and Rohmer’s works seems apt. A lot of talking, walking around, […]

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Started on 15 June 2008.
It’s nice to be reading more these days.
Unfortunately Philip K. Dick’s style isn’t sitting as well with me this time as it did with Do Androids Dream…, but I’ll keep plowing through it and see if I can find myself more engaged with the novel by the time I get to […]

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Finished on 15 June 2008.
While it’s certainly easy to see why this would be considered such an important book, I didn’t get much out of it. It was fairly uneven and quite repetitive, and at times it felt pedantic. It was a bit of a slog in parts, but the crushing, nihilistic ending […]

Translated by William Weaver from the Italian Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore.
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Read sometime in May 2008.
It was enjoyable to follow Italo Calvino in his second-person, literary-centric adventures, and it would be difficult to say whether I liked more his frame story, or the individual story fragments that the book is stitched together from. […]

Happy birthday to my brother Lorin!
Happy birthday to my brother-in-law Ryan!

I present one of my favorite YouTube findings ever, William F. Buckley, at the height of his career as a political commentator, in a debate with Noam Chomsky, at the beginning of his, in 1969:

Part 1:

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Part 2:

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A través de una carta en la Granma, por problemas de salud.

[wikipedia (Dave Warth)] - [wikipedia (Isham Jones)]
In honor of Dave:

Pandas:

from here

More pandas:

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In honor of Isham Jones:

Mama Loves Papa:

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Swingin’ Down the Lane:

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[wikipedia]
In honor of his birthday:

Spem in alium:

link - cpdl.org - a breakdown of all 40 parts in midi

If ye love me:

link - mutopia - cpdl.org

I wonder if people wash their hands more often after they get iPhones.