A Flaneur in the Cloud – November 11, 2013
Slaid Cleaves: Breakfast In Hell – YouTube Disabled Athlete Tatyana McFadden Completes Marathon Grand Slam – The Takeaway 110713 On Sunday at the New York City Marathon, Tatyana McFadden sped across...
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American Icons: The Scarlet Letter – Studio 360 110113 One of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ancestors was a judge in the Salem witch trials. In his novel of early America, Hawthorne explores the tension...
View ArticleA Flaneur in the Cloud – December 2, 2013
Ray Wylie Hubbard: The Grifter’s Hymnal – No Depression Americana and Roots Music Mando Lines: “After a couple of days listening to Hymnal, my favorite track is Mother Blues, an autobiographical tune...
View ArticleA Flaneur in the Cloud – December 9, 2013
Scientists quit their day jobs, head over to YouTube | Marketplace.org 120313 In the last year, YouTube has become the place to watch really smart people with advanced degrees hold forth on science....
View ArticleA Flaneur in the Cloud – December 16, 2013
Royal Gardener Planted The Seed Of Urban Planning At Versailles : NPR 120913 France’s Chateau of Versailles has pulled out all the stops for one of its favorite sons, gardener Andre Le Notre, who...
View ArticleA Flaneur in the Cloud – December 23, 2013
BBC Weather – Shipping Forecast The Shipping Forecast: From Britain’s Seas Into Its Soul : NPR 121613 Phillip Reeves: “It is a bizarre nightly ritual that is deeply embedded in the British way of...
View ArticleChristmas Blessings Beyond the Airport
I am grateful today to the angel at the Detroit International Airport who pulled strings to get me on the last flight to Toronto — otherwise, I’d be humming disconsolately with Nick Lowe. Made it...
View ArticleA Flaneur in the Cloud – February 17, 2014
OPPRESSED MAJORITY (Majorité Opprimée English), by Eleonore Pourriat – YouTube On what seems to be just another ordinary day, a man is exposed to sexism and sexual violence in a society ruled by...
View ArticleA Flaneur in the Cloud – March 3, 2014
Oscar Glow, Today’s Tech Help Short Films Find Their Fandom : NPR 022814 If you, an ordinary non-Academy member, wanted to see an Oscar-nominated short film a few years ago, you couldn’t — not unless...
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French Novelist Patrick Modiano Wins 2014 Nobel Prize
Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel prize in literature. [Source: Guardian/AP] Patrick Modiano Wins Nobel Prize in Literature – NYTimes.com 100914 Patrick Modiano, the French novelist whose...
View ArticleWhat I’m Reading – January 8, 2017
Trump Finds That Attack-Dog Strategy Has Its Limits – The New York Times 010617 Glenn Thrush: As a political underdog and now as president-elect, Donald J. Trump has employed the same brutal but...
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What I’m Reading – January 22, 2017
Minoru Niizuma, Yoko Ono and others at the Chambers Street loft, 1962. Gelatin silver or digital print, printed 2016, 8 x 10 in. Collection of Yoko Ono, New York. © Yoko Ono Left to right: Toshi...
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