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Rebecca Black is on Jay Leno tonightRelated reading
But it’s only Tuesday!
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(Thanks, Rachel!)
“Off the streets and out of trouble”
Texting forth and back:
Rebecca Black is on Jay Leno tonightRelated reading
But it’s only Tuesday!
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The Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, Arizona, seems like an outtake from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Key themes: freedom, self-destruction.
[The spokesman just died.]
By Michael Leddy at 10:39 AM comments: 0
“[T]he coveted creature — known for its sensitivity, inquisitiveness and tendency to congregate around galleries and concert halls — is in decline”: Decline of the Omnivore (Miller-McCune, via Arts & Letters Daily).
I’m grateful to my parents for raising my brother and me as omnivores. Every weekend — or so it seemed — our family went off to a museum or historical site. That was hardly the norm on our Brooklyn block, where our day-trips seemed to provoke amused derision among our neighbors. I remember a well-used copy of Murray Polner and Arthur Barron’s Where Shall We Take the Kids?: A Parent’s and Teacher’s Guide to New York City (1961) sitting around the house. Thanks, Mom and Dad.
By Michael Leddy at 6:54 AM comments: 0
“This book, which was featured on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, comes recommended by some famous Big Thinkers”: Garry Wills reviews Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly’s All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age.
By Michael Leddy at 8:22 AM comments: 1
A Google search that led someone to Orange Crate Art: the mixed up files of Mrs basil e. Frankweiler for dummies. That’s sadder than sparknotes for movies.
If you want to be able to talk and write about From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, read the novel, kid. You’d be a real dummy to cheat yourself by doing otherwise.
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Review: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
By Michael Leddy at 8:17 AM comments: 0
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From the PBS NewsHour:
The House of Representatives approved a measure Thursday to bar federal funding of National Public Radio. The bill also prohibits public radio stations from using federal grant money to pay dues to NPR.All but twelve Republicans voted for the bill: seven voted no, one answered “present,” and four did not vote. No Democrat voted for the bill; seven did not vote. Here’s the roll.
The 228-192 vote came mostly along party lines, with most Republicans backing the proposal and nearly all Democrats opposed. Republicans said it was time for the federal government to get out of the radio business.
By Michael Leddy at 3:58 PM comments: 6
Nations, like individuals, have their egos.I’m half-Irish. Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
James Joyce, “Ireland: Island of Saints and Sages” (1907)
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