via guardian.co.uk So, I watched the Eurovision Song Contest last night. Surely, of all the things that America misses out on by not being Europe (long history, great architecture, pedestrianised city centers, affordable universal health care) this one has to be the greatest loss. In Eurovision, a whole continent, plus honorary members Israel, come together [...]
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What with Balkanisation and accession and the fall of communism and other forms of proliferation, there are just too darn many countries in the Eurovision Song Contest these days. There are two qualifying heats, shown in hinterlands of the BBC’s digital channel offerings in advance of the big Saturday night finale. And I had to [...]
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Facebook is a great way of promoting your town’s events. The State of Tennessee has a great Facebook page to promote tourism. But this question on my hometown’s Facebook fan page is just a little too Jeff Foxworthy and immediately draws some close to the bone humor. Was this quite the effect they were hoping [...]
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J.D. Salinger is dead. I just saw someone Tweet that they had powerful memories of the first time they read Catcher in the Rye. I remember my second time better than my first time. The first time I think I stayed up quite late reading it – couldn’t sleep til I finished it. I believe [...]
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I’ve been meaning to go see the Sacred Made Real exhibit at the National Gallery for quite some time, but couldn’t quite convince anyone to go with me. I knew that it was an exhibit of creepy Spanish religious art, but I fully underestimated the level of torturous hyper-realistic portrayal of the suffering surrounding the [...]
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Fabled myth of the return of Quetzalcoatl or not, Cortes and his band of followers had some major cojones in taking on one of the most vicious and violently expansionist empires of the New World with a scant few men and no chance of backup. In Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler – a special exhibition at the [...]
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