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The Templeton Chronicles: April 2009
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Essays on my various enthusiasms and travel stories. Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Cuchulain of Muirthemne at the Doggie Diner. The Patrick J. Dowling Library. Out on 45th and Sloat, is open from 1:30 to 4:30 three days a week: Thursday, Friday and Saturday. In an exchange of emails late last month with Wendy King, the head librarian, I was told that it was a good idea to call before making any trip out to this local, volunteer-run resource of Irish literature and reference material. No worries," I said, "I...
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Disce Pati: December 2007
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Monday, December 31, 2007. I wonder why it is that people look to the new year with optimism. There's no reason to think the new year will be any better than the old (see Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, subprime mortgage crisis, sinking dollar, health insurance crisis, Bush administration, etc.), yet we never fail to hope - no, not hope, believe. That relief, even bliss, is right around the corner. It's a little like the way everyone thinks they're going to heaven. Friday, December 28, 2007. Somewhere I rea...
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Disce Pati: Et alia
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Friday, July 9, 2010. If this isn't the craziest f&%$#*g thing I've ever heard. The Candwich. A sandwich in a can. You know - for the kids! Apparently it's not on store shelves yet, and might never be, since the creator is in some legal hot water, according to the Daily Mail. Still, I feel better just knowing a product like this might exist one day. Something to live for. Sandwich in a can. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Savoring meat and meat by-products for over fifty years. It's All Under The Hat.
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Disce Pati: Et alia
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010. Recently I had a moment of weakness in my stand. Against electronic book readers and ordered a Barnes and Noble Nook. When the price dropped. I paid $149 for the new Wi-Fi version, a damn sight cheaper than the original price of the Nook, Amazon’s Kindle, and the Apple iPad. My opinion of these machines has changed. You get what you pay for, ultimately, but at least you can stock up on the classics if you’re willing to overlook the tics. Should we fight it? Or should we accept tha...
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Disce Pati: Observatio
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010. I’m skeptical, to a great degree, because there’s no getting past the fact that consuming a novel is to read, not to view. And to insert, say in an ebook, video clips, musical excerpts, other sounds and images, or even the voices of characters, would be to push the novel beyond its own “novelness” and into the realm of performance. But it occurred to me, while reading a sample of David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,. As I acquaint myself with the Nook, and compa...
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Disce Pati: Observatio
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Monday, July 12, 2010. Photo: Syracuse Cultural Workers. Everyone’s growing vegetables in their yards around here. Even I’m doing it, and I’ve never been the type to follow the crowd or, for that matter, to care whether a specific plant lives or dies. What I don’t like about the home-vegetable movement, though, is how some people are going a little wild with it. A lot of our neighbors around here have dug up their front. I’m not sure it’s worth it, but, damn, will those tomatoes taste good.
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Disce Pati: Consternatio
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010. In another perfect metaphor for our times, I learn today that The Beatles Complete on Ukulele. Has come to an abrupt end. Son of a bitch. Oh, it was an ambitious project, to be sure, to write about and perform (on ukulele and other assorted lo-fi gear) every Beatles' tune in time for the Summer Olympics in London, '012. Roger Greenawalt and Dave Barratt, the inspired ones, have been making my Tuesdays special ever since I read about them on Boing Boing. View my complete profile.
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Disce Pati: May 2010
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Now and then I get curious about people I used to know. I Google them. Nine times out of ten there’s no reference whatsoever to their names, or anybody sharing their names (there are dozens of guys out there with my name), and I always find that hard to believe. How can the interwebs fail to locate some minute mention of nearly every living American? Strange, how two people in their early thirties have taken such different paths to fifty. Tuesday, May 18, 2010. Barry Hannah died ...
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Disce Pati: Et alia
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Some time ago, I read an item here or there that suggested maybe I (and a lot of other people) was tying my shoes the wrong way. At first I pshawed the idea, but in a little while I recalled some instances when my shoes had come untied for no apparent reason. And my shoes don't come untied anymore. All this at the age of 53. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Savoring meat and meat by-products for over fifty years. View my complete profile. It's All Under The Hat. Stuff On My Cat.
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Thursday, July 8, 2010. How is future technology affecting us today? Here and there you’ll read science fiction or speculative articles that wonder aloud about time travel and other technological advances that might come about one day. You can think yourself into dizzying loops over this stuff. Maybe they’ ve. If this is the case and some of the weird wild stuff going on in the world today is caused by “ chrononauts. 8221; (for want of a better term), all we can do is hope that their interests coincide w...
