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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 […]

More on McEwan

As I’ve indicated, the clarity of writing and expression isn’t the only reason I am so impressed with Ian McEwan‘s Saturday. Another part of it was he seemed to put on paper thoughts virtually identical to my own on a variety of topics, from post-9/11 society to the power of music. What perhaps hit closest […]

Notes and bookmarks

A few odds and ends:

Bruuuuce is embarking on a brief spring solo tour. The Revealer notes the potential debate over lowering flags to half-staff as a result of the Pope’s death. Hunter Thompson’s family plans to blast his ashes from a cannon in a gonzo fist and Bob Dylan may perform at the ceremony. […]

Music’s power and McEwan

This post has been in process for a couple weeks. Ian McEwan’s Saturday brought it to fruition.

I am continually amazed by the exceptional power of music. I’d love to find an explanation of how a song can produce goose bumps. Or why certain ones (a specific portion of Springsteen’s Rosalita and, of all things, […]

Pulitzer Prizes

I don’t pay as much attention to the Pulitzer Prizes as I did when I was a journalist. Now I mainly look at the literary awards, although my experience has been that Pulitzer winners are generally fairly serious tomes, particularly the non-fiction.

Anyway, the 2005 winners were announced today and include:

FICTION, Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

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