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It is the 445th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare (1564). The 1560s were a different sort of 60s altogether from the sort of 60s many of us knew, but the man had the hair for it, an eye for the irony of it, and an ear for the music of it, that keeps him cool throughout. A tip of the hat & a...
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Experimenting with Twitter these days. One was the day when "the unexamined life" was thought to be not worth living. Now perhaps it's merely the undocumented life that makes us cringe. What with Linkedin, facebook, Twitter, MySpace, GPS, and countless closed circuit security cameras that peer at us and register our movements day and night everywhere we go, living a truly anonymous undocumented life is...
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Last night was out to the theater, off-Broadway, very good. Tonight is for piddling around on the computer, avoiding the taxes chain saw massacre awaiting me, obsessively checking Twitter, avoiding unpacking moving boxes and actually organizing things, obsessively tweeting on Twitter, and generally filling little cyber-boxes with letters that appear to create words that might say something but probably do not much in the end....
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Moving this weekend. Just going to an apartment in the building next door, even the same landlord (read corporation) but for some reason several hundred less in rent. Go figure. However, moving is still a royal pain despite the fact I have already shed (pretty much literally) tons of shit over the many previous moves over the past 20 years that have brought me from...
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Vernal equinox--lovely first day of spring . . . which saw me driving to work through inexplicable snow! Apparently the New York / New Jersey metropolitan area has been tectonically displaced to North Dakota. Go figure.