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Rainbow Over Grey Fox

By the time we got the instruments under cover the sun had come back out.

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Postcard From the Hill

Sun’s going down, the Sparrow Quartet (a group in which Bela Fleck is just one of the band) is playing, it’s cooled off from the blazing afternoon heat, the view is pretty from the hillside, and all is generally right … Continue reading

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Stabbed By An Antique

On a crowded rush-hour IRT local, I said to this woman, “You’re going to hurt someone with that thing,” pointing to the six-inch hatpin with a sharp tip protruding at eye-level from her hat. “I’ve been told that several times … Continue reading

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Why I Don’t Have An iPhone, Reason #1

I still found that calls regularly broke up on some major streets. In New York City, riding in a taxi along the Hudson, one important call was dropped three times on the new iPhone. Finally, I borrowed a cheap Verizon … Continue reading

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Thomas M. Disch, 1940-2008

I was very sad to read that Thomas M. Disch apparently committed suicide last week. The obituary says he’d just had a sequence of awful disasters, health problems, and so on. It’s really sad. I was introduced to his work … Continue reading

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FOR RENT 3 ROOms

I was completely charmed by this sign in the window of a former cell-phone store on Flatbush Avenue. (So nice for once to see one of those go away, rather than the good local bar and independent video store that … Continue reading

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