November 2005
November 30, 2005
Say it ain't so, Dr Hal
If I were in San Francisco tonight, I would surely make my way to Cafe du Nord for the final performance of the Ask Dr. Hal show. Without Dr Hal (a.k.a. Harry Robbins, Reverend Howland Owll, and/or Perditus Pedale),...
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November 28, 2005
A note on the notes
For the book I'm writing, I have been wrangling a few hundred references to articles, books and assorted Web documents, along with piles of stray notes. Trying to get a handle on this bibliographic sprawl, I have finally come to...
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November 26, 2005
when i was cool
While I was doing a little site housekeeping over the weekend, I found myself face-to-face with my five year-ago self, back when I first started posting in July 2000. At the time, I was living a fully shameless dotcom lifestyle,...
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November 23, 2005
The Paradox of the Megachurch
The Great American Megachurch seems at first a showcase for some of our country's most ludicrous traits: a gaudy mix of retail, show business and mass marketing masquerading as spiritual tradition. While I've always felt vaguely appalled by the...
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November 18, 2005
Secession, seriously?
While I was up in Vermont, I picked up a copy of Vermont Commons at the local coffee hut. Expecting to while away my latte over one of those strident little leftie free press rags, I was surprised to find...
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November 17, 2005
Neo-bohemian rhapsody
My cousin-in-law Andrew O'Hehir has written a fascinating take on Richard Lloyd's new book Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City, a piercing critique of the popular mythology surrounding American urban bohemias like the Mission, Greenwich Village, and Chicago's...
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November 1, 2005
If it's Tuesday, this must be Vermont
Perpetuating my peripatetic ways, I've landed in Ludlow, Vermont (thanks to Bill and Jocelyn, who rented me their vacation house for a few weeks). With the ski herds still a couple of weeks away, the action in Ludlow consists mostly...
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