The poster for the new film Charlie Bartlett brought to mind another brightly colored high-contrast portrait with words on sunglasses lenses, the cover of Black Grape’s 1995 album It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah. That album cover seems to have inspired other work even more directly, and I’m sure the idea wasn’t an original one, […]

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We returned from our ten-day trip almost a week ago, so I’d better get to it before it fades away… The trip was supposed to be a surprise for Aimee’s birthday, but I planned it so long ago that I couldn’t keep it a secret forever. We spent three days in Seattle, three in Victoria, […]

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After a few years of despising the concept, I got my first cellphone when I moved to the big city, in December of 2000. I promptly got rid of my land line, and have been cell-only ever since, barring last year in Rochester. My first phone was a workhorse, a Samsung 3500 that lasted four […]

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It’s a whole new month, and a whole new ballgame here. It’s been awhile since I’ve caught up on things because I’ve been waiting for some finality on an unpleasant development at the end of last month. Two weeks ago, I did my 20-mile run on a Sunday, which went really well and put me […]

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