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5 Things I Have Learned While Watching the 2010 World Cup
I’m a very casual fan of soccer. My appreciation for the sport has grown slowly over the last four to five years. I did not grow up playing the sport. The handful of times I did play soccer it was in...
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The Future of Books
Over at The Brooklyn Rail, there is an interview with professor John Thompson about his book Merchants of Culture. In the interview he says, The publishing industry is in trouble—but not just because...
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Once Again Katie Roiphe Gets It Wrong
In a craptastic piece of analysis courtesy of Slate magazine, whose official motto is “We’re Taking Contrarian to Idiotic Lows,” Katie Roiphe reads Freud, Proust, helicopter parenting, liberal yuppies,...
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What Is Facebook Good For?
There was an essay last November by Zadie Smith in the New York Review of Books about the movie The Social Network and the book You Are Not a Gadget. It still gets a lot of traction regarding...
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While I Was Away…
I took a break from the Online Life (blogging, Facebook, Twitter) to get a few things done. Which I did. It was a productive break. I read a lot and wrote a lot, too. There will be a burst of blog...
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Fakes and Authentic Fakes
The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation in New York regarding whether a number of paintings and drawings by artists such as Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell were actually forgeries. From...
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A Stroll Through Lu Xun Park and the Lu Xun Museum
Ever since our first forays out of our hotel in the days when we first arrived, I’ve been wanting to explore Lu Xun Park some more and visit the Lu Xun Museum. Lu Xun was an important Chinese writer in...
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Living on Chicago Time
Clock at Marshall Field and Company, Chicago (taken at the corner of Randolph and State Street). Photographer: David K. Staub under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.5 License The working...
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Manic Monday – 11/26/12
Good morning. A new week is set to begin, the last week of November. For those of you dreading this week…. It’s that time of the year. When throngs of people jam the malls and the Internet demanding...
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The Car Stereo Music Test
Over at Failure Magazine there is an interview with Carolyn Abbate, one of the authors of the book A History of Opera. [Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan] They discuss something that interests me as an opera...
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