Sunday, June 28, 2009

"Placet." A lot.

A voice proved to be a powerful madeleine for me last Sunday night. I am a big David Suchet/Poirot fan, and I was thrilled that Mystery! will be playing 2 new Poirot stories in their Six by Agatha. I thought Suchet had sworn off the role, but never say never.Agatha Christie's Cat Among the Pigeons...
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Sidekick, the PinUp, and the King of Pop

The Sidekick, the PinUp, and the King of Pop walk into a bar . . .Ed, Farrah, and Jacko meet up with Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates . . . I can’t help it: the clumped deaths of three such A-mur-i-can pop culture icons of the twentieth century is a great set-up for a joke (if only I could write jokes)....
              

Friday, June 19, 2009

Black Pride: “The Public, Not the Pro, Rules at Bethpage”

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.—-Bobby JonesLong Island pride is running high right now. Bethpage Black. Farmingdale’s contribution to world-class golf. 2002 was the...
         

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The Wearing of the Green

Happy Bloomsday everyone. The annual salute to James Joyce and the mother of all first dates of the last century that lead to Ulysses. But the wearing of the green this year goes to the Iranians fighting for freedom in their lives. Andrew Sullivan has been covering this since Friday, showing the amazing...
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Friday, June 12, 2009

Il faut cultiver notre jardin

Even when it is tiny and sits on a window sill in an apartment.I hear echoes of The Little Prince every time I look at my charges. Then one morning, exactly at sunrise, she suddenly showed herself.And, after working with all this painstaking precision, she yawned and said:"Ah! I am scarcely awake. I...
              

Sunday, June 7, 2009

btw, NPH Rocks

“I’m tv. They’re movies.”Ah, the Tonys. Living in New York I sometimes think I should go see more theater than I do. But the artifice of its storytelling doesn’t resonant with me as deeply as film does. Or tv, for that matter. What I love about episodic television is that it brings plays into my home...
              

Saturday, June 6, 2009

The Gyres of History: The 20th Century Finally Ends

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold Yeats had a personal, complicated theory of cycles of history. So maybe it’s my Irish blood that is leading me to feel that the different gyres of history are intersecting in a special...
              

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Augmenting My Reality

My head is spinning. I attended the Creativity and Technology conference today (CaT), hosted by Creativity magazine as part of Internet Week. It was an excellent overview of some astonishing technology that is being used now in websites and mobile devices, plus more esoteric ideas of data visualization...
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