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matt is back

nobody@vox.com(Kevin G.) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:26:59 -0700

This just made my day. It's almost enough to make you glad to be a human being.

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Shortest Poem Ever

nobody@vox.com(Kevin G.) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:57:58 -0700

It's raining in Paris. -- Antoine (on irc this morning, and I couldn't get it out of my head all day)

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What I'm Doing With Our Tax Rebate

nobody@vox.com(Kevin G.) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:49:40 -0700

The New York Times on Sunday couldn't have put it better: For some, the rebates seem like a trifling compensation handed out by the same administration whose tax cuts and expensive foreign adventures have damaged the economy. "It's insu...

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triumph of victory, err, errata

nobody@vox.com(Kevin G.) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:59:11 -0700

The NY Times this morning has an article about Vesna Vulovic, the Serbian stewardess, who holds a Guiness Book record for surviving a 33,000 foot fall after her airliner was blown up. The article was unclear as to whether she air-surfed down hers...

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Frank's Report On Planes

nobody@vox.com(Kevin G.) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:16:55 -0700

Just awesome. I am struck dumb by the enormity of it all. And you should hear him do the presentation. Frank G. Third Grade, Room 13 Planes Flight has been dreamed of for many centuries. Most old flights were when a person got into a flimsy...

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the last dance

nobody@vox.com(Kevin G.) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:36:12 -0700

Sometime around 1996 or 1997 I started going to the monthly English Country Dance in Noe Valley in San Francisco. At the time it was within walking distance of my apartment in Hayes Valley. Since it was so convenient, I was a regular at the d...

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Death on BART

nobody@vox.com(Kevin G.) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:12:22 -0700

Feeling something like an ice-cream-headache-type pain in my left temple this morning on the train listening to Beethoven's Seventh while reading David Foster Wallace's surreal account David Lynch and his movies and the production of Lost Highway,...

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Danceground Keriac

nobody@vox.com(Kevin G.) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:59:16 -0700

Back around 1996, when I first got interested in English Country Dancing, the monthly San Francisco dance was going on at a little church in Noe Valley, Bethany United Methodist at Sanchez and Clipper. It was in a gradeschool kiddie gym, unpreten...

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Libby Larsen

nobody@vox.com(Kevin G.) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:17:34 -0800

An unexpected pleasure going through a pile of CD's, a recording of the one time I got to hear my wife sing; a movement of Libby Larsen's Seven Ghosts, the letter from Jenny Lind to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Even she didn't know she had a copy of it...

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one last little word about Christmas

nobody@vox.com(Kevin G.) — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:57:13 -0800

You may feel excluded by Christian symbolism, but you're in America. Work with it. Garrison Keillor's essay at Salon.com. And I didn't even know he had a column there.

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