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Not tonight honey, I have my Iraq study group

on December 23rd, 2006 in Uncategorized by | Comments Off on Not tonight honey, I have my Iraq study group

Many people, from George Orwell to George Carlin, have pointed out how governments twist language to suit their purposes. The Bush administration has invented so many euphemisms for its policies and blunders over the past six years, it is, alternately wicked funny and hard to notice them anymore. Strange though…

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Analog Man Goes Digital

on September 2nd, 2006 in Uncategorized by | Comments Off on Analog Man Goes Digital

In 1983, the year my son was born, I threw away several thousand vinyl LPs and packed the ones I felt I couldn’t really live without in boxes. This summer, 2006, twenty-three years later, I opened them and began to play each one on my turntable, hooked up to an…

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88 Word Palindrome

on August 17th, 2006 in Uncategorized by | Comments Off on 88 Word Palindrome

Along with lipograms, rhymed poems and Elizabethan verse, Bob Gallagher enjoyed the nice tight laces of a good palindrome, which is basically a phrase or poem that is the same backwards and it is forwards (Madam I’m Adam). For a wonderful essay by Bob Gallagher entitled Palindromes and the Unconscious,…

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Bob’s Lipogram

on August 16th, 2006 in Uncategorized by | Comments Off on Bob’s Lipogram

Sometime in the Spring of 2005, Bob Gallagher finally got an email address and an internet connection. This is an excerpt from a message he sent me last July 5th: Don — Sometimes inhibition has the same effect as boundless license! The form is profoundly inhibiting but the effect is…

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Peak Oil

on March 30th, 2006 in Uncategorized by | Comments Off on Peak Oil

It’s difficult to live in these times and this culture without feeling like one is being constantly bullshitted and manipulated. Reading these books, I actually felt slightly relieved, as if finally, somebody was being straight with me about something I suspected, but couldn’t prove; which is, we are squandering the resources on this planet, and over-consuming in an unsustainable way.

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