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“Airbag” For Your Head
This little tidbit regarding the “invisible helmet,” http://nbcnews.to/HUCgbQ, got me thinking that invention is 90% perspiration, and 10% vanity.
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Free Diver Dies Trying to Break World Record
This photo got me thinking that many of us will never know when death shall come upon us. This dear soul knew clearly. As he rose to the surface he hopes to feel oxygen filling his lungs but had 10 to...
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Roth Unbound
Reading Roth Unbound, a literary discussion of the life of Philip Roth, got me thinking that we live in an age when “progress,” whether with regard to economics, technology or culture, has largely...
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Bravo! Bravo!
Remembering a rather contentious but inspired performance by Lou Reed at Radio City Music Hall in 1988 got me thinking about a rather small gent at stage side screaming his lungs out prior to the...
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Purveyors of Pop
Again, reading about Roth and his prolific output through so many stages in life got me thinking. Has anyone other than I (not that they should or ever would) associated Mr. Roth with my other great...
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Are We Still Friends?
This line from Arcade Fire’s recent missive got me thinking: “Now, the signals we send, are deflected again/ We’re still connected, but are we even friends?/ We fell in love when I was nineteen/ And...
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Do We Expect Our Children to be Perfect?
Watching 15-year-old Julia Lipnitskaia compete at Sochi, got me thinking. Is this healthy, the level of competition and scrutiny we put on our children? Are we becoming a world where we lead our youth...
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Whiteout at the Winter Olympics
Watching “Slopestyle” got me thinking that the Winter Olympics is somewhat of a celebration of the Western world and its economic dominance. Though painful to admit (with apologies to all the crunchy...
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Struck by Moonstruck
Watching Moonstruck on HBO last night got me thinking that this is the best Woody Allen film that he ever made. And sadly, could not make. While it’s a great paean to NYC, which Woody can do in his...
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