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A notebook and a pencil
A notebook and a pencil
When Gary Paulsen was a teenager, a librarian gave him a library card, then a book a month, then a book a week, and then a Scripto notebook and a no. 2 pencil.
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A notebook and a pencil
Red Cars
Red Cars
From the movie Hell Bound: the Red Cars of the Pacific Electric Railway, junked.
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Red Cars
Ticonderoga sighting
Ticonderoga sighting
From the movie Hell Bound: just another day at the office: a Hawaiian travel brochure, drugs, and a Dixon Ticonderoga for jotting down appointments.
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Ticonderoga sighting
It’s Ciattarelli, dammit
It’s Ciattarelli, dammit
In 1994, Jack Ciattarelli, now the Republican candidate for governor of the state, did indeed attempt to ban cursing in the borough of Raritan. Talk about cancel culture.
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It’s Ciattarelli, dammit
Block that metaphor
Block that metaphor
Andrew Yang: “I want to be the metaphorical wet blanket for the country.”
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Block that metaphor
Less than, fewer than
Less than, fewer than
I can imagine a writer wondering, “Should it be less than? Fewer than? I know: I’ll try both!”
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Less than, fewer than
Feel Flows
Feel Flows
Having made my way through the 5-CD Beach Boys compilation Feel Flows: The “Sunflower” and “Surf’s Up” Sessions, I ask myself, as I have before: was there ever a group that so veered between the great and the awful?
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Feel Flows
Mater
Mater
A menu-bar Pomodoro timer.
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Mater
Brian Wilson at his piano (?)
Brian Wilson at his piano (?)
I think there’s more and less here than meets the ear — more than Brian Wilson at his piano and less than Brian Wilson at his piano.
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Brian Wilson at his piano (?)
The quickening art
The quickening art
Anyone who doubts that music is “the quickening art,” as Oliver Sacks, borrowing from Kant, put it, would do well to watch last night’s 60 Minutes story about Tony Bennett, “The Final Act.”
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The quickening art