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Entries from August 2009

Protected: Pat to Ida: 30 June 1944

August 31st, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Tags: Ida & Pat

Shame of the Nation

August 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment

It may never have occurred to many of his critics that Ted Kennedy acted as a mirror, showing them not only the best, but also the worst, in themselves.

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Tags: ideas · language · politics · self

Protected: Pat to Ida: 28 June 1944

August 29th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Tags: film · food · Ida & Pat

Life Markers: We could have danced all night.

August 28th, 2009 · No Comments

This life marker was seen at the cemetary of Mission San Luis Rey in Oceanside, California.

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Tags: My Eye

Protected: Pat to Ida: 25 June 1944 (letter 2)

August 27th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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“I think it’s when somebody’s sick.”

August 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Tom Clay, a populist Ken Nordine, created a montage of audio clips from prominent news events of the ’60s and released it to radio in 1971. I must have heard it dozens of times on my little transistor radio when I was a kid. I was reminded of it, and of its spirit, as I awoke to the news of the passing of Teddy Kennedy this morning.

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Tags: music

Protected: Pat to Ida: 25 June 1944 (letter 1)

August 25th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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David Davis Fine Art (Everywhere a sign #27)

August 24th, 2009 · No Comments

This pair of signs was photographed in July of 1986 in New York’s Soho.

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Tags: signs

Protected: Pat to Ida: 23 June 1944

August 23rd, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Tags: Ida & Pat · music

Found things: Buttons (musical groups)

August 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

I remember bringing the first B-52’s album home the summer after my first college year and playing it really loud, and driving my poor Mom crazy with it. Was that our generation’s “scream-o?”

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Tags: music