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Monthly Archives: September 2006
Protected: The Tears Of Autumn — Charles McCarry
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Fort Phoenix, Fairhaven, MA
From which an invading British force was repelled on September 7, 1778. I’m up here for a brief work trip (driving around New England in the fall is not the worst job requirement to have) and heading back to the … Continue reading
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The Quote Server, 1994-2006, RIP
More than a decade ago, I flew home from an Internet conference in San Francisco with the first (pink) edition of Larry Wall’s Programming Perl and a printout of the NCSA Mosaic page on how to write CGI scripts. The … Continue reading
If You Hear Vague Traces Of Other People’s Songs
If Bob Dylan can take a Muddy Waters song, change the words, and put his own name on it, then he should have no problem with “Mr. Tampering Man,” my latest song. It may bear some resemblance to certain older … Continue reading
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Cities: Destruction On Purpose
The fourth and last part of The Death and Life Of Great American Cities discusses possible tactics to solve some of the problems she discusses. She opens by noting that city planning does not lack for tactics that are “aimed … Continue reading
Protected: The House Of Mirth — Edith Wharton
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Repeating the Mistakes of the Past
As the plans to build the so-called Freedom Tower get clearer, so does the fact that we’re repeating the terrible mistakes we made when the World Trade Center was built originally. WHen completed in the mid-seventies, the Trade Center dumped … Continue reading
Old Music and Modern Times
I’m glad to see that Bob Dylan’s plagiarism of many sources on his new album Modern Times is becoming something of a major story, although the focus lately has been on the lines and phrases he lifted from the Confederate … Continue reading
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“Ground Zero”
There was a particularly rancorous discussion in newyorkers over tourists’ use of the term “Ground Zero” to refer to the World Trade Center site. A lot of the emotion in that discussion had to do with the disrespectful behavior of … Continue reading
Back at the Underground Lounge!
Mike Skliar and I will be back at the Underground Lounge on Thursday, September 21. I’ll be starting off with a half-hour solo set of original songs, including some brand-new ones, at 8 pm. Mike will do a solo set … Continue reading