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What’s Coming this Week
A few things: Victoria Day on May 23, Towel Day on May 25, and (hallelujah!) the final week of what is, nominally, the Johnny-Depp-versus-Amber-Heard defamation trial but what is, actually, an egregious mash-up of the worst aspects of celebrity culture and cable-TV obnoxiousness.
Video Memory of the Week
Posted: 2022 May 21
Photo Memory of the Week
Music of the Week
Version with lyrics chosen to compensate for the general mush-mouth-ed-ness of the singer. Or maybe my ears are just getting old . . .
Posted: 2022 May 20
Words of the Week
"A watched pot has never delivered such excitement." - Joe Ray
Source: Wired, 2022 May 13Posted: 2022 May 20
Tweet of the Week
What an interesting coincidence that the people who believe Western civilization is uniquely terrible turned out to be uniquely terrible at running Western civilization
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) May 20, 2022
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Category Archives: Musings
Pretty Well
It’s not just a difference in degree: It’s a difference in kind. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, New Perspectives
Tagged Miscellany, Musicians, Professionals
15 Comments
In Case You Were Wondering
It is a wise child that knows its mother. Continue reading
Let it Begin
Start. Start again. And repeat. Continue reading
Posted in Feeling Clearly, Mortality, New Perspectives, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Attitudes
3 Comments
Lasting the Course
Milestones for Queen Elizabeth and for my dad. Continue reading
Punny, yes, but funny?
Familiarity breeds no laughs. Continue reading
Home
On the road again, heading home. Continue reading
This Dang Place
What’s beyond the green door? Don’t go there. Continue reading
Squares and Rectangles
The mathematics of beauty Continue reading
Free-range, low pulp, and added fluoride, please
Fresh or from concentrate? No pulp? Regular pulp? Extra pulp? Added calcium? Super-duper added calcium? Arggh. Continue reading