Archive for June, 2006
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Here is a reprint of an article I wrote in May of 2002.
THEY'RE GOOD KIDS. They'll get it sorted out. That's what the parents of those of us in hab-rehab are saying now. It's touching that they continue to believe in us, even as the group sessions ...
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Radiohead's Thom Yorke, king of angst rock, is suitably conflicted about the environment and his own role in destroying it. It turns out you can't be a superstar without a most triumphant concert tour. And any most triumphant concert tour burns tons of fossil fuels. And the ...
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
It appears Google may be rethinking its decision to kowtow to China's demands that they censor their search results on www.google.cn. Sergey Brin described China's censorship demands as "a set of rules that we weren't comfortable with." But they did it anyway. Brin said they knew they ...
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
My plans for the perfect glass of iced tea began this morning. On Sunday my sister-in-law gave me her old sun tea jar, and this morning I filled it up with filtered water and dropped in six bags of tea; two of Earl Grey and four of English Breakfast ...
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Friday, June 2nd, 2006
I once said my father "gets" Helprin (it was in New Jersey). What I ought to have said is that my father, more than anybody I can think of, is a Helprin character.
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Thursday, June 1st, 2006
First my flight was peremptorily postponed to the unusual moment of 9:29pm. The the lightning began, and briefly knocked out the floodlights on the tarmac, covering the drenched ground crew in darkness. Soon we were told 10:45pm. Shortly after that, we learned the crew of our flight ...
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