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Tracks takes my check on “hiatus”

It seems like every year, one of my kids brings home a magazine subscription “fundraiser” from school. I always viewed it as an excuse to try add one or more magazines to the omnipresent “To Read” list. This year, I opted for Tracks, a magazine purporting to “help experienced, sophisticated listeners navigate a complicated musical […]

Google Print

Not quite sure how or when I missed this, but I discovered while working on the preceding post that Google Print is up and running in beta. I recall hearing about this project late last year but the fact the beta was actually up somehow escaped me.

The beta not only provides a variety of […]

Notes, riffs and bookmarks

Survey says: Bloggers should have content restrictions. (Via Gigalaw). C. Max looks at the interesting page changes at Amazon. And I have a forthcoming post on Google Print. Augustana’s Center for Western Studies is having a huge book signing from 11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m. April 23 as part of the 37th annual (PDF file) Dakota […]

SciFi v. LiFi

I hate the term “SciFi.” At least in the book world, it seems to carry this derogatory connotation that the work probably is not worth reading because it borders on pulp at best. Yet even when certain works are essentially science fiction, if the pundits consider it “LiFi” or literary fiction, it is accorded deference […]

Happy happy joy joy

This phrase (from the old Ren & Stimpy show) best describes today’s fortune. While I was sitting in a meeting in Omaha, an acquaintance was kind enough to try to get me tickets for Bruce Springsteen’s May 10 solo show in St. Paul. And even though Xcel Energy Center is being reconfigured to a roughly […]