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Thank you so much for following the show blog. My goodness, these shows are such great work. Writing, in general, you know, is a kind of solitary activity. I think that's partly why I've been drawn to it; I'm a kind of solitary guy. But this team-effort show-blogging stuff is not solitary at all. The entire process runs opposite to what I normally think of writing and to how I approach writing. By the end &#151; actually, almost right from the start &#151; I am feeling completely drained.

As a child who grew up reading the light humor of S. J. Perelmam and James Thurber, I worshipped at the altar of Art Buchwald. I didn't know it at the time, but, looking back on it, he taught me a tremendous amount about the importance of voice. If the practice truly <I>is</I> treacherous, well, Buchwald certainly made it look easy.

When I traveled through Wisconsin in the '70s, you could still buy these for a quarter at junk shops around the state. Sure wish I'd taken advantage of the opportunity&mdash;as if we needed more <I>stuff</I> around here.

This one minute commercial for the French movie channel Canal+ nearly had coffee spurting out my nose.
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Website <A HREF="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2007/01/gardner-podding.html">Ionarts</A&gt; alerts us to "the amazingly successful free podcast of the classical concert series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum."

The definition of "fetish" <I>is</I> "object or part of the body that arouses libidinal impulses&mdash;often to the exclusion of genital impulses." Fetishizing that annoying Microsoft Word paperclip, however, goes beyond extreme kink into deeply creepy territory.
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Over at Doug Ramsey's always worth checking-out <I>Rifftides</I>, Randy Sandke offers a personal remembrance of Michael Brecker. Not your usual hagiography.

Marc Fisher wonders if sharing the hit record experience is possible in the age of iPod.

Stephen Strauss argues that we can only really know our nearest relatives by creating cloned reincarnations.

Mystery of Napoleon's death laid to rest?