Hey, I just read a great NYT article that I think will ring true in your family as well. Read this: Coffee Can Wait. Day’s First Stop is Online Excerpt: Karl and Dorsey Gude of East Lansing, Mich., can remember simpler mornings, not too long ago. They sat together and chatted as they ate breakfast. [...]
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Internet before Coffee? How does it affect your family? 4 comments
Muslim Punk Rock, or What Fiction Can Do 3 comments
This just in from the New York Times. Michael Muhammad Knight wrote a book about Muslim-Americans forming a punk band in Buffalo New York. From the article by Christopher Maag, “Young Muslims Build a Subculture on an Underground Book“: Five years ago, young Muslims across the United States began reading and passing along a blurry, [...]
The Wonderfulness of “It’s A Wonderful Life” 3 comments
This is my favorite Christmas movie. So I’m a bit palled by recent articles that this is a dark film, or that George Bailey should never have been born. Mainly, this is a response to a NYT article (and a short video commentary) about the “dark side” of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” (But you can [...]
Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth? It’s the future again. Leave a comment
Hey, right before you hear my new radio series, Yukon 2058, and get to hunt mammoths in Vuntut National Park on hoverdoos, read this editorial. Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth? I think one might find Vuntut National Park a logical place to put the mammoths and to grow the steppe grasses, some of which we [...]
And for Contrast: The Empire Goes Slack 1 comment
In my blog entry/movie review “On Clones and The Clone Wars” I try to make the argument that the movie fails as an adult product–of which Star Wars had amassed millions of fans (not just sci-fi fans, but folks who grew up with the series as a defining part of their childhood, and a cultural [...]
