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Entries from June 2010

A Perfect Fit

June 10th, 2010 · No Comments

From a box of things, the long-sleever fits. I wear it to work, musing that I’d rather have Dad present than his perfect shirt.

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Tags: CNFtweet · family

Richard to Alice: 5 January 1945

June 9th, 2010 · No Comments

I received 2 from you yesterday and was I ever glad to get them. I almost missed chow last night trying to finish them.

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Tags: Richard & Alice

Robert Schumann: 8 June 1810

June 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Schumann, artist and musician but, above all, composer.

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Tags: music

Where Postcards Go

June 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Vintage postcards from antique malls and yard sales get scanned as blog entries, annotated, then used as bookmarks in his library.

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Tags: books · CNFtweet · postcards

Postcard: Crookedest Street in the World

June 7th, 2010 · No Comments

Card is titled: “Crookedest Street in the World.”

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Tags: postcards

Buddhist Tolerance Can’t Buy You Peace
in New York City

June 6th, 2010 · No Comments

More Spalding Gray, this time from Swimming to Cambodia.

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Tags: film · language

Fred FM playlist: 6 June 2010 “Radiohead”

June 6th, 2010 · 10 Comments

Approximate playing time: 80 minutes.

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Tags: Fred FM · music

Spalding Gray: “Worser than Hitler, even”

June 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments

I’m thinking about writer, actor, memoirist and monologuist Spalding Rockwell Gray this evening. Today would have been his 69th birthday. I miss his insight and humor, and his remarkably unique view of the world around him.

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Tags: film

Richard to Alice: 31 December 1944

June 5th, 2010 · No Comments

I’m going to try to write this letter as you write yours to me. In other words, I’m laying on my sack.

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Tags: Richard & Alice

Quotation Mark Lunacy #1

June 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Sometimes, as you are about to see, our friendly neighborhood President got a little crazy with his quotation mark usage.

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Tags: language