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Entries from August 2010

Richard to Alice: 23 March 1945

August 11th, 2010 · No Comments

This has turned out to be a pretty long letter, hasn’t it? Where did I find all those words? I’m sure I don’t know. I haven’t written the same thing over and over, have I?

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Tags: Richard & Alice

An Unintentional Joke?

August 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments

I just entered ANAGRAM into Google, and the search engine asked me, “Did you mean NAG A RAM?”

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Tags: language

Postcard: Easton’s Bathing Beach

August 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Card is titled: “Easton’s Bathing Beach, Newport, Rhode Island. Photo: J.L. Goodman. E-5918.”

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Tags: postcards

Fred FM playlist: 8 August 2010 “Floating Away”

August 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Approxmiate playing time: 76 minutes.

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Tags: Fred FM · music

Richard to Alice: 20 March 1945

August 7th, 2010 · No Comments

You don’t know how much it means to me to know beyond a doubt that you are waiting waiting for me, trusting me and loving me. I feel sorry for those who have no one waiting for them – those that have no one to love.

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Tags: fiction · food · Richard & Alice

Christopher Hitchens on cancer and God

August 6th, 2010 · No Comments

Christopher Hitchens, who seems to have made a career out of frustrating, infuriating and intriguing his readers on matters of politics, history, and social culture, talks here with CNN’s Anderson Cooper about his recent encounter with, and treatment for, cancer.

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Tags: health · ideas · politics · TV · writing

Random Song Machine: “I’m Gonna Be a Teenage Idol” by Elton John

August 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments

All accounts suggest that Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote “Teenage Idol” as a tribute to glam rocker Marc Bolan of the band T.Rex.

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Tags: music · Random Song Machine

Demure Hardware Critics

August 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The on-screen popup says “Your Mouse’s batteries are critical.” I open the Mouse, hold the batteries in my palm. They say nothing.

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Richard to Alice: 12 March 1945

August 4th, 2010 · No Comments

The more I think and dream, the more I want you. It seems like I spend most of my time dreaming.

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Tags: food · Richard & Alice

Sunset Firefly Headlights

August 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

I push the mower at dusk. Fireflies rise from the yard, oncoming headlights. I swerve, cross back, cut grass that’s already shorn.

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