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I NEARLY froze to death on the walk home. I was not expecting a wind chill of 8 degrees.

I HAVE never really listened to the Band until my trip last week. I downloaded a bunch of their early albums to my Zune (I do love the Zune Pass for music binges like this), and I listened to a number of them.
The song that stands out for me is ‘The Night […]

AFTER a trip to the West Coast last week (Seattle, WA and Salt Lake City, UT), I returned to the cold, hard reality that winter is still happily happening in lower Vermont. Somerville, MA was sunny and mostly snow free.
Utah felt more like spring down in the snow free and none too cold clime […]

SPENT THE LAST COUPLE of days in Redmond, WA and I am now in Salt Lake City, UT. This is my first real visit to SLC. I am still trying to figure out the vibe of the city and not fall asleep at 9pm from jetlag.
The first thing I noticed are the […]

I TOOK ADVANTAGE of the warmer temperatures and the snow and ice free sidewalks to go for a run around Cambridge today. It was a good run. Just cold enough that I never really overheated, but also sunny. I realized in the middle of my run that I had not run outdoors […]

READING MCPHERSON’S ‘Abraham Lincoln: A Presidential Life‘ before ‘Tried By War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief‘ made me realize that the shorter work is a subset of the larger work, which makes it seem bigger than its sixty five pages.
This longer volume does a great job of dwelling on the […]

AFTER A FEW TECHNICAL ISSUES, I am back online and ready to blog again. There goes that whole a blog post a day idea again. Maybe next year.
Oh, and Happy Valentines Day!

I JUST FINISHED listening to Gladwell’s latest book, ‘Outliers‘. Gladwell reads as well as he writes - very entertaining. The reaction from people has been less glowing than ‘Blink‘, but I think the output is the same. Give the reader something to think about in pleasing prose.
Is it the most […]

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS missed an opportunity for something really special with their publication of ‘Abraham Lincoln: A Presidential Life‘ by James M. McPherson. It is a very, very short biography of Lincoln. It is the kind of book I would have loved to have in high school (I had Gore Vidal’s fictional ‘Lincoln‘, […]

I WATCHED the second episode of the first season of “Twin Peaks” tonight. This is the one where things start to escalate to the Surreal and enter the more traditional realms of Lynchian imagination. We have crazy brothers with brie sandwiches, brothels, Surrealistic detective techniques, and dreams filled with a dancing dwarf. […]