Things I’ve Done
Events I’ve attended and places I’ve been.
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This is my all time favorite depiction of the Zodiac animal race. It’s an Onitsuka Tiger ad.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/tI_Rzl6KSYs?hl=en&hd=1<\/embed><\/object><\/div>";” alt=””> Two of my favorite holiday movies are Miracle on 34th Street and Bass and Rankin’s The Year Without a Santa Claus because they address questions of belief and faith. Not the religious interpretations of the words but the parental version: What we tell our children they are too old to do and believe
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http://www.youtube.com/v/mchMNxN-KII?hl=en&hd=1<\/embed><\/object><\/div>";” alt=””> Why isn’t there an “Official” video for this song? Every Christmas I get the Waitresses’ Christmas Wrapping stuck in my head like a Manchurian Candidate on the Queen of Diamonds. I’m surprised there’s not an “official video” for it somewhere on the broad expanse of the worldwide web (though there are a few
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Good friends tell each other the truth. They are honest with one another. But sometimes good friends allow each other to keep certain “rationalizations.” I tell my good friends I go to the annual New York Comic Con (NYCC) for the sake of my kids and to fulfill my professional obligations as an educator. My
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Father’s Day always makes me think of that Harry Chapin song, “Cat’s in the Cradle” – More so now that the kids are getting noticeably older. As the kids get older, I get older, so maybe it is just me getting old and sentimental but Chapin’s Cradle seems to have more resonance now. It’s like
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Last year I was given the opportunity to address an audience of fourth through twelfth graders at an awards ceremony. The speech I gave was not how I imagined it. While I knew what I wanted to say, armed with only an outline, I rambled and eventually my audience lost sight of my point.
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Maybe it was a just the times – Leonard Nimoy on In Search Of narrating the mysterious death of Howard Carter and asking: “Could it have been the mummy’s curse?” The curse was missing from the Discovery Expo’s King Tut exhibit. In its place facts about his family tree. The sheer size of the
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When I think “asylum,” I think of safety as in to “give asylum to.” Then I think of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Jack Nicholson and its penetrating whites. And then I remember a documentary I saw as a film student at the University of Buffalo. Black & White (or just very subdued
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