Category: Essays and posts
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Up or down
America was a roller coaster over the weekend. Watching a SpaceX rocket lift off from launch complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center and deliver two NASA astronauts to the International…
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Bring back the Muppet Show!
Watching The Muppets with my family last weekend made me nostalgic for that Saturday afternoon ritual from my childhood, dubbed in German of course. It’s still funny:
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys (and their fabulous keepers — trust me, I know them, they’re amazing) prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San…
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Seamus Heaney, “Digging”
Every spring when I turn on the sprinkler system and begin another season of mowing the lawn every week and pretending that one day I’m going to do something about…
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The Parking Lot Movie
Through the magic of Netflix I came across this amazing documentary last weekend. The Parking Lot Movie is a 79-minute meditation on capitalism, sociology, management, class war, and of course,…
Martin Remy 