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[wikipedia] 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. [wikipedia] 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 [...]

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: link Part 2: link

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: link In honor of Isham Jones: Mama Loves Papa: link Swingin’ Down the Lane: link

[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.

I’d really like to see how Edwards, Obama, and Clinton would respond to this two part question: (1) On what basis do we have the right to send in troops after Al Qaeda in Pakistan against the order of the Pakistani government, or to make the unilateral decision to launch an attack on Iran? (2) [...]

Children are asked to leave some food for Lucia (a sandwich, or anything else available at the moment) and for the flying donkey that helps her carry gifts… —wikipedia