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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
When I look at any so-called "open system that must stay equalized" that yet somehow stirs up improbable hurricanes, I feel justified in my scepticism.
The state of perpetual emergency imposed from above by some local lord feels artificial.
What dilettante bohemians consider medicine for the soul might not be your ...
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008
If everybody is an artist and his life is his palette, who among us creates a masterpiece?
No work can be judged till it's finished, I suppose.
I hope that each of us learns perspective at least, though I wonder how many ever come to realize they have no talent.
Of course it ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
The band was on stage dressed in silver jump suits, like spacemen.
The tonal separation of the wall of sound was incredible.
The motherboard was in fine form.
My friends and I were peaking right about then-- the scene dissolved before our eyes and the molecules rearranged themselves in a new order.
I can't ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
The long view.
September 5 will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of On the Road, by Jack Kerouac.
I first read it when I was 17, the year I hitch-hiked to California the first time, with my friend Umberto.
The chair-bound intellectuals will fall all over themselves lavishing analysis and ...
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