From the monthly archives:

November 2009

15 Years Ago…

November 21, 2009 Music

November 20, 1994. Jamieboogies and I decided at the last minute, while eating Chinese food from Imperial Palace, to drive up to Madison to see Phish for the first time. Completely changed my college years.
(cross-posted via Posterous)

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Two Years

November 17, 2009 Observations
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Two years ago today, this happened. And I don’t mean my son’s tooth coming in; of course, I mean that I first tweeted.
What a weird two years.
As I’ve become increasingly engaged with some kind of Twitter community, I’ve encountered: love, anger, births, deaths, proposals, breakups, people gone missing, people found. Warmth, filth, and everything in [...]

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Some links for March 22nd through November 17th

November 17, 2009 Elsewhere

Here are some recommended links for March 22nd through November 17th:

500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
Science, science fiction and design: a pictorial essay – Boing Boing –
Reading on the Kindle Vs Watching TV « Kindle 2, Kindle Books Reader 2.0 – Amazon Kindle 2 Review –
New-found native life in the [...]

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Do bookstores matter?

November 16, 2009 Observations

For years—perhaps decades—my dad would walk to the flagship Kroch’s and Brentano’s store on South Wabash on Chicago, spending his lunch hour among the famously knowledgeable booksellers and the then-amazing array of inventory. I only remember being in that downtown store once or twice, but the mall Kroch’s and Brentano’s in the town where I [...]

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