There’s no accounting

…for taste, I suppose. There are certain videos that I never tire of, no matter how many times I watch them. This is one:

On the other hand, at any given point in my life, there’s always been a pop star or musician who becomes the object of irrational, intense, dislike. For the moment, it’s [...]

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Union Street endorses

I’m breaking a long-standing ban on political announcements on this blog to let it be known that Union Street has endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Press conference, 9am tomorrow. What, no interest? Ok, geez, never mind.
I voted for Obama in the Democratic primary. However, I didn’t mind an [...]

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Have mac, will travel

I’m here in lovely southern California; but instead of playing tourist today as I’d hoped, I’m sitting at a cafe with my Mac, writing a paper that’s still not done even though I made myself promise to finish it before I arrived yesterday. Well, since the promise was just to myself - easy come, easy [...]

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Dream sleep

Last night, after a long weekend, I decided to catch up on a couple of episodes of Dexter before going to sleep. I then proceeded to have the nightmare of my life, even if it was of a fairly familiar sort, i.e., being chased down a dark hallway by axe-wielding murderers and that kind of [...]

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Horror

Over the weekend I watched the stylishly entertaining Korean movie ‘Oldboy,’ a marriage of the Count of Monte Cristo with some Grand Guignol tale in which a man, taken and held captive for 15 years for mysterious reasons, is released only to carry out a revenge plot that turns out to have been designed by [...]

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