Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Since seeing In the Heights last week, I've listened to the original cast recording so many times I can sing some of the songs in my sleep. Hearing the songs later gives me a greater understanding of the music; I hear things I missed when seeing the show live, notice ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
In the last several days, during my daily trips to the gossip sites, I've been inundated with the annoying tag lines from this movie, about Tom and his girlfriends and Hannah, the one constant in his life. Until Hannah announces plans to marry another. The only way he can win ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
After Jury Duty postponement, I was unsure what to do. I rode around downtown for a while, enjoying the cool air and sun on my face. I went to a bike shop and bought a new set of panniers (the old ones were crap, really, and one broke on my ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
I've been checking out the goods over at Despair recently, finding their witty Demotivators are just the thing to describe my recent moods. Rather than write tonight I'm slumped on the couch watching American Idol trying to keep the boredom from leaking out my eardrums. Since Sunday night I've been ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Towards the end of I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb, one character gives another a rock. "What shape is it?" he asks and Dominick says, "Oval." That's life, the first character says. An oval. A circle. Life comes around. In a very Dickensian way, this book is ...
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
This is the first in what plans to be a continuing series of thoughts written while waiting for my laundry to wash and dry at the B. Bubbles on Broadway in Manhattan.
...A single television hangs from the ceiling at the back of the laundromat. It plays either NY1 News or ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
I haven't seen very many professional productions of Shakespeare in my life. When my brother was in high school he played Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, and when I was in college I played the king in A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1996 I saw Andre Braugher play Henry ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
I've posted about David Mamet before. I was first introduced to him in History class I took my freshman year at college. The professor, a young man probably not much older than I am now, wrote a quote on the board during our midterm exam. He said we would get ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
I recently read a book called World War Z by Max Brooks, a novel written as news story about the aftermath of a world war against zombies. The events of the book are told by various individuals who lived through the way. They talk of how the zombie ...
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