October 2010
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Molto molto
I am working and listening to All-Classical WGBH, because I am a classy lady, and they are broadcasting a program that was recorded right here in Portland, in the Merrill Auditorium.
The concertmaster just interviewed a teenage cello prodigy from Orinda, California who said he was inspired to take up the instrument after seeing Yo-Yo Ma perform once on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood (!) and then...
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Not to brag...
…but I think this year I may have outdone myself, Halloween costume concept-wise. I mean I may even top the time I showed up at Union Hall dressed as my boyfriend’s band’s van, or the time I just wore regular clothes to be a Canadian, or last year’s (unexecuted, due to illness) plan to hang out at Space dressed as Colucci’s. What I’m saying is, this year might...
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“It should have been a routine foreclosure, with Mrs. Bradbury joining the...”
– The national investigation of shady foreclosure practices began with one woman and a pro bono lawyer Maine.
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Me: Why are there two paving stones in the hallway upstairs?
Mom: Oh, your father thought they were cute. He thought you'd want to see them.
Me: Cute? Paving stones?
Dad: They're the fancy ones! Ninety cents each!
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Lazy movie reviews
The Social Network is about Facebook in the way that Farmville is about farms. Aaron Sorkin is not Hecht/MacArthur but there were some good lines, not in the sense of “oh, that makes me feel or realize something important,” more in the sense of “oh, that was a good line.” I could lodge legit complaints about telling instead of showing, or women as disposable background, but...
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Amazing health secret
I am not a health and wellness expert by any means, but here is a tip: if you’re starting to get sick, all you have to do is not be an idiot. Go to bed. You know, the place you always say you wish you were when you’re at your desk or in a meeting or in a car or on a bus? That place. Also known as the place you avoid when you get home because there is something so important on a screen...
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“While a few obscure black notebooks were coming out of Europe, most were not...”
– The art of the singular obsession.
I am sorry I did not discover you sooner, now-defunct website that reviews black notebooks and nothing but black notebooks. 