Maybe I need to read some of Nobel Prize laureate Doris Lessing‘s work as she sounds like my kind of person. Her response to winning the literature prize? “Oh Christ, I couldn’t care less!” Earlier this week I finally got around to watching the 60 Minutes piece on Bruce Springsteen. You need to see […]
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JR brought my attention to a NYT article on the uproar over the difficulty fans have getting tickets to concerts and other events. Of course, it certainly doesn’t help if Ticketmaster is correct in alleging one software company developed a program that means ticket brokers are “bombarding Ticketmaster’s Web site with millions of automated […] As promised, an assortment of recent material dealing with books and reading: Given that the first event was last night, I have been remiss in not mentioning that the South Dakota Festival of Books is going on this weekend in the Black Hills. Micawbers Books in St. Paul, “the last indie bookstore in the Twin […] Continuing the transition from too many doses of the political to normalcy (including a review, albeit of a politically tinged book, Monday), here’s some accumulated general marginalia. An installment specifically related to books and reading comes later today. Federal immigration authorities have announced a redesigned test with 100 new “civics” questions immigrants will have to […] With a couple more substantive posts on the immediate horizon, here’s a Sunday morning helping of marginalia: I hope he went there for research purposes, but David Louis Edelman’s poking around at the Fox News website produced a very observant post. When we actually win one, the DOJ makes sure it provides some payback for […] |
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