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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Contemporaneity

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Contemporaneity, in the sense of being “up with the times,” is of no value. A competent wakefulness to experience — as well as to instruction and example — is another matter. But what we call the modern world is not necessarily, and not often, the real world, and there is no virtue in being up [...]

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Time Spent

Friday, May 28, 2010

DDB made a comment the other day that I’ve been thinking about. In my last post, I said something about how I’d spent ~150 hours watching Lost, and DDB said something about how my comment had made him re-evaluate how he’s spending his time. I think the idea was that the notion of spending 150 [...]

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Lost

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

I watched the Lost series finale yesterday and it’s been stuck in my head since. I won’t spoil it — by which I mean I won’t give any details on what happened — but I will say that it was 1) extremely disappointing from a plotting and craftsmanship standpoint, and 2) extremely affecting emotionally. It [...]

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Sexy Elia’s Long Straight Highway

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Nah, not really. I’m done with school for this semester, so let me tell you a story about an end of semester: I stayed with Beth for extended periods both years I was at NYU, after classes ended in the Spring. Both times I had a class where the teacher gave us till the last [...]

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