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The Clock Has Struck 17

Monday, December 31, 2007

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The Beatles were my first musical obsession. When I became a fan of the Beatles in middle school, I collected every recording, poured over every liner note, read biographies, studied the lyrics, listened to the solo projects . . .
It was the first time I’d gotten into music like this. I think it was around […]

Everyone - John Lennon [1:43m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Better Late Than Never: Friday Random Ten

Friday, September 30, 2005

Howe Gelb, Living In A Waterfall

Elliott Smith, Somebody That I Used To Know

Louis Armstrong (Big Band), I’m In The Market For You

Giant Sand, Overture

Freedom Singers, Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around

Shuggie Otis, Shuggie’s Old Time Slide Boogie

Frankie Newton, The Blues My Baby Gave To Me

Woodie Guthrie, Pick It Up

Califone, Bottles & Bones (Shade & […]

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Listening To The Many Voices Of Haifa

Friday, May 27, 2005

Did you hear this yesterday on All Things Considered?
It’s a short radio essay by Andrei Codrescu [realplayer] about his recent visit to Israel for a poetry conference. I said essay, but really it’s an amazing prose poem that speaks volumes about the historical importance, the beauty and the wonder of the Jewish homeland and […]

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Did You Know Alison Bechdel Has A Blog?

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

(For those following the little blogospheric controversy about blogrolls , this is also a mini plug for why y’all should keep ‘em.)

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The Link Is Dead But It’s Not Forgotten. This Is The Story of Alberto Rotten.

Friday, November 26, 2004

The idea keeps coming up that Alberto Gonzales is going to make for a kinder, gentler DOJ .

Earlier today Lambert at Corrente posted on the latest example in this syrupy genre, but the crucial background link was dead. I asked for it in the comments; he fixed the link and was kind enough to let me know with an email.

Lambert hones in on one of those ever so slightly concerning moments from Gonzales’ tenure as White House Counsel that ought to cause at least a little more trouble for Bush’s nominee for Attorney General than it has so far . . .

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Who Knows Tulsa?

Monday, September 6, 2004

A friend of a friend needs to go from the Pacific Northwest to Tulsa, Oklahoma because of a family crisis there. She has no contacts in Tulsa, outside of the person she’s going there to help. It would be very helpful to her if she could learn about community resources in Tulsa—church groups, women’s groups, social service agencies, justice groups. If you know Tulsa and can give me any information to pass on, please drop me a line.

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Samuel Iwry

Friday, June 4, 2004

I was going through unread RSS feeds and found that Jim at Paleojudaica posted a link to the Washington Post obituary for Professor Samuel Iwry, who died on Saturday, May 8 at age 93.

When I was doing my masters in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, back in 1993, I had to pass off on a language requirement. (This is also where I met Jonathan David Jackson, mentioned in this recent post). I’d decided that I had a better chance at breezing through a Hebrew exam than I did at doing well in French, so I was referred to Samuel Iwry as the professor who would examine me.

At the time, I knew nothing about him. I did not realize he’d been such an important scholar or that he’d led such an interesting life.

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Blog of note: Jerusalem Wanderings

Sunday, May 30, 2004

jerusalem wanderings is a new blog by, Leah, an American born Israeli woman.

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Today is . . .

Friday, April 30, 2004

Seems I was a day early on this one.
See yesterday’s post . . .
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Poem On Your Blog Day

Thursday, April 29, 2004

Of course once I started thinking I’d post something for Ronn’s Poem On Your Blog Day, books started raining off the poetry shelves. But given the hour, I’m going to try to keep to just a poem or two.
I have a favorite poem—among many favorite poems—which is not a truly great poem. Or maybe it […]

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