Preference Personnelle
Wednesday, September 30
 
'On the Sunny Side of the Street.' Dizzy Gillespie (w/Joe Carroll), Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, Jimmy Smith, Terence Blanchard (w/Cassandra Wilson).
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Wednesday, September 16
 
"The concept of backpacker books goes back to the days of the hippy trail when travellers would carry such classics as the I Ching, the Tibetan Book of the Dead or anything by Herman Hesse. A backpacker classic should have an element of profundity, preferably mystical -if not it should have cult status or be a statement about who you really are. There is an element of self discovery in setting off - the path to enlightenment, the journey inwards...A backpacker book is not a 'beach read'--the book must be worth the weight and space it takes up and should be reverentially handed on to other travellers or left in a hotel or bus station for another seeker to chance upon."

Bookride has a list of Backpacker Classics (via The Goat).
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Saturday, September 5
 
'Scared' is totally becoming a Republican dog-whistle word.
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Friday, September 4
 
"Any time I'm recognized and can't just walk around, I remind myself I haven't had a job in my life."--Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay Packers
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"His own face stared up at him from a discarded copy of the Ann Arbor News. He folded the paper over and smiled at a girl reading Kafka at another table. The corners of her mouth turned up briefly before she went back to her book. The photo in the paper had been a poor one to begin with, and he hardly resembled it now. He had shaved his head and bought a pair of drugstore reading glasses--black plastic frames and the weakest prescription he could find. He looked very much like every other man with a shaved head and glasses."--Harry Dolan, Bad Things Happen
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Here's one of the reasons I love Toyota pickups: like most of 'em, mine has a sliding glass rear window. And I need to replace the latch. Looking for an old latch on eBay, I learned something. Between 1979 and 2000, Toyota updated the rear-window latch a couple times, but they never changed the drilling. So the window latches are interchangeable over a range of more than twenty years. A latch from a 1979 Hilux will fit in a 2000 Tacoma, and vice-versa. No planned obsolescence, no change for its own sake, just sweet sweet interoperability.
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A lagniappe of cultural kitsch and B-movie claptrap

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