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#486: Cleave the general ear (ronks) Mon 19 Mar 07 09:53

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:53:00 PDT

"The Web has transformed a lot of things, including journalism, turning it into a self-cleaning and occasionally overheated oven."

- David Carr, The Media Equation column in today's NY Times [Read entire topic]

#485: metric buttload of (cjp) Fri 9 Feb 07 10:13

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:13:00 PST

(*applause for all*) [Read entire topic]

#484: Jett Rink (jettrinkjr) Thu 8 Feb 07 17:22

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:22:00 PST

Johnny Carson introducing the amply-busted Jayne Mansfield on the Tonight Show:

"And now ladies and gentlemen, here they are." [Read entire topic]

#483: Cleave the general ear (ronks) Thu 8 Feb 07 16:36

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:36:00 PST

Woody Allen, quoted by Dick Cavett:

"You cannot prove the nonexistence of God; you just have to take it on faith." [Read entire topic]

#482: Cynthia Dyer-Bennet (cdb) Wed 19 Jul 06 11:11

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:11:00 PDT

Over in The WELL "Newsletter" conference (we call it <news.> for short) we were talking about the death of Mickey Spillane. One of our members, <smendler>, wrote the following homage to the great detective story writer:

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news.3051: Obits (05/24/6+++)

news.3051.764: unity, not uniformity; diversity, not division (smendler) Tue 18 Jul 06 05:50

She walked into the room, and my heart stopped. Her wings hung from her shoulders like great downy blankets, blankets that I knew I could wrap myself in for years. She wore a white robe, cinched at her waist by a golden rope that just begged to be loosed. "C'mon, ya big lug," she said, with a smile and a wink that promised eternal delights, "time to go. They want to talk to you upstairs." She didn't have to twist my arm. I grabbed for my hat, and her hand reached out and touched mine. All the pain went away. "You won't be needing that," she said gently, and in her eyes I could see not just stars, but great, spinning galaxies. "We've got one picked out for you. Just your size."

Yeah, time to go. So we went.

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(reposted with smendler's permission) [Read entire topic]

#481: Lisa Harris (lrph) Wed 8 Feb 06 13:41

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:41:00 PST

Slightly wistful, slightly excited that I will be able to be more of an individual and not just the Harris Mom, now. But I guess wistful was how I felt this morning when I first posted. Now I'm really glad that he doesn't need me every second (more time for the Well). [Read entire topic]

#480: Cynthia Dyer-Bennet (cdb) Wed 8 Feb 06 11:33

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:33:00 PST

> no more babies, only kids

awwww... Do you feel a bit wistful about that, (lrph)? It seems like it, I can almost hear a gentle sigh in your post.

Happy birthday, Graham! [Read entire topic]

#479: Jett Rink (jettrinkjr) Wed 8 Feb 06 08:14

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:14:00 PST

Ronks! [Read entire topic]

#478: Lisa Harris (lrph) Wed 8 Feb 06 04:05

Wed, 08 Feb 2006 04:05:00 PST

My son, Graham, turns 5 today. A whole hand, as he says. I have no more babies, only kids. [Read entire topic]

#477: Cleave the general ear (ronks) Tue 7 Feb 06 21:23

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:23:00 PST

Just ran across this from the notebooks of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

"The still rising Desire baffling the bitter Experience, the bitter Experience still following the gratified Desire."

One wonders what was on his mind at the time. [Read entire topic]