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"THE END OF ALL INTELLIGENT ANALYSIS IS TO CLEAR THE WAY FOR SYNTHESIS."--H.G. Wells. "It's always a leap into the unknown future to write anything."--Margaret Atwood "Be kind, be useful, be fearless."--President Barack Obama.
Friday, January 17, 2020
The Wonder (Continued)
I decided to repost this so it can headline the weekend. After their triumph at the college talent show, the Wonders get a semi-professional recording of their song, "That Thing You Do" in the Tom Hanks film of that title (see the first clip here.) A local talent manager promises to get them airplay, and in this scene, they hear it for the first time on the radio. This is one of the great joyous scenes in movies, and a particular fantasy for those who have dreamed this dream. I've had the experience of hearing my record on the radio for the first time but I was alone. Here it's group joy, as unrestrained as it can get in 1960s Main Street Erie, PA. Liv Tyler's screams make it all work. I could watch this clip forever.
Win It For the Draft Money
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What a lousy year for the teams I support and write about here: the
Warriors, the 49ners, the Steelers, Giants, Pirates...and now everyone is
saying tha...
Turning 72 in 2018: I Dwell in Possibility
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*Returning to my reposts of birthday essays, which will eventually form an
almost continuous series of observations, expectations etc. spanning nearly
20 y...
History of My Reading: I'm A Stranger Here Myself
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*“And the roses of electricity still open*
*In the garden of my memory.”*
Apollonaire
photo by Paula Rhodes 1974 or 5
*A*t the end of March 1974, after...
Back To The Blacklist
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The phenomenon known as the Hollywood Blacklist in the late 1940s through
the early 1960s was part of the Red Scare era when the Soviet Union emerged
as th...
Star Trek's End? (With Update)
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Just as I can't un-see what I saw in the fifth episode of *Star Trek:
Picard*, I wonder if the damage it has done to the Star Trek universe can
ever be und...
Jonathan Miller
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Of all the people I didn't know who died in 2019, I was most saddened by
the death of Jonathan Miller. He was an important presence at various
times in ...
5 years ago
The Malling of America
available at your online bookseller
Manifesto
..."The answer that led those who have been told for so long by so many to be cynical, and fearful, and doubtful of what we can achieve, to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day."--Barack Obama Nov. 4, 2008
"Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage." Barack Obama January 20, 2009
"If you turn away now – if you buy into the cynicism that the change we fought for isn’t possible…well, change will not happen. If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves. Only you can make sure that doesn't happen. Only you have the power to move us forward.--President Obama on Sept. 6, 2012
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