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Why We Fight

Someone on my CD mix club mailing list posted a story this morning about how she ran across a stoop sale over the weekend which turned out to be John Wesley Harding's! (His real name, btw, is Wesley Stace, and under that byline he will be reading from

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Medicine

Cast the Branch out of Your Eye

Scratched my cornea yesterday on a tree branch while trimming the branches hanging over the fence from a neighbor's tree. Found this out when I went to the emergency room this morning because my eye still hurt so badly. Have antibiotic ointment now to squeeze into my lower

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Music

Mondo RIAA

I had heard last week that Mondo Kim's on St. Mark's Place was raided by the RIAA NYPD for trafficking in mixtapes and bootlegs. Five employees were arrested. Kelefa Sanneh's piece in yesterday's Times fills in the gaps in the story informatively

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Fossil Dog

We call this pose the Archaeopteryx.

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The Fruits of a Liberal Education

Please, parents, as your high school graduate ventures out into the wide world, examine the philosophical leanings of his or her chosen college destination with care and judgment! Provide gentle correction where necessary! Don't let this happen to your child! "I'm so glad I never

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Young Turks: A Sadly Shallow Survey of Hard Bop and Modal Jazz from 1956 to 1968
Cd Mix of the Month

May's CD Mixes of the Month

My contributions to the May CD Mix of the Month Club were Young Turks: A Sadly Shallow Survey of Hard Bop and Modal Jazz from 1956 to 1968 and its sequel Young Lions: A Criminally Incomplete Catalog of Post-Bop Players from 1986 to 2002.

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More Than the Castle Is Moving

Western fans of anime and Diana Wynne Jones fans alike, at least in some of the bigger cities around the country, can finally queue up today to see Howl's Moving Castle, Hayao Miyazaki's ninth feature film. You can read my Science Fiction Weekly review here: http:

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Reviews

Howl’s Moving Castle

Japan’s grand master of animation reimagines a modern English fantasy classic.

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New Article Available

My personal essay "The Missionary Imposition" is out and available in the current issue (#2) of Matthew Kressel's zine Sybil's Garage. This is a beautifully produced little number with fiction by folks like Bruce Holland Rogers, Bruce Boston, and Lauren McLaughlin. A few of

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The Thing in View

So here's the thing. The men's room shared by all offices on this floor is a tiny, cramped, claustrophobic thing more suited to installation in a submarine than an aboveground structure. It has one urinal and two stalls. The unscreened urinal is on a slight pedestal,

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I Am Your Meme, Luke!

The Fall Of The LJ JediLiveJournal UsernameSo, what's your name, Jedi?I see. What's your affiliation?JediSithNeitherGood, good. What's your lightsaber color?BlueRedGreenGoldPurpleIt's a blaster gun...Finally, what's your fighting tactic most likely to be?Conserve my energy, slash only

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Writing

Visit Scenic Netherview Station (Or, "SALE!!!!")

It's official, or will be when the promised contract arrives in the mail. I just made my first sale to Asimov's. A 19,000-word novella no less. The story's called "Inclination," and though it takes place a few decades earlier, it&

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