Daily Archives: April 28, 2024

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    • Reeboks in heaven

    By Frank Paynter | Published: April 28, 2024

    “In matters of art, ‘avant garde’ means little more than conforming to some daring philistine fashion, so, when the curtain opened, Hugh was not surprised to be regaled with the sight of a naked hermit sitting on a cracked toilet in the middle of an empty stage.” Awkward American Hugh Person is sent to Switzerland [...]

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    Misapprehension

    By Frank Paynter | Published: April 28, 2024

    This afternoon while I was mulching some sapling evergreens and the dog was wandering around collecting ticks to deposit later in the house when her Frontline repellent finally forced them from her thick, concealing fur, I heard a frightening roar. From far up the road came the sound of a high-end race car, a throbbing [...]

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    bee cooties

    By Frank Paynter | Published: April 28, 2024

    There’s a fungus afoot. At least that’s what the LA Times reports on the bee Collapsed Colony Disorder problem. Like all things ecological, it’s dangerous to draw conclusions about first order causes and how to address them. Naturally, once the problem of a fungus is identified, a fungicide is proposed as the solution. I would [...]

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    To the librarians

    By Frank Paynter | Published: April 28, 2024

    Abandon hierarchy all ye who enter here. David Weinberger’s new book, Everything is Miscellaneous, is dedicated to the librarians. It could be likened to a lumberjack’s chain saw tearing down every Aristotelian tree in the forest, but that would probably be wrong. It would probably also be wrong to assert that the miscellaneous nature of [...]

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