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We called those round things records when I was growing up. For Christmas, I was the lucky recipient of a TEAC CD Recorder with Turntable/Cassette Player. A nice machine. I thought it would be fun to make my own discs of select LPs and cassette tapes that have been mothballed…
Read More »Dick’s post about changes in journalism applies in many respects to what has been happening in the publishing sector (books and magazine and e-pubs) since the 1960s, when the mimeograph machine made it easier to mass-produce written material. Remember those school test papers in faint purple ink? Editors, writers, and…
Read More »Read Rita Savard’s fine article about typewriters in our culture and, specifically, Jack Kerouac’s typewriter at the National Park’s Mogan Cultural Center museum exhibit about the immigrant history of Lowell. Filmmakers were in the city yesterday documenting the old Underwood typewriter on display with one of Kerouac’s backpacks on the…
Read More »From truth-out.org, I picked up news that Bill Moyers has a new TV program. He keeps coming back, I think, because nobody else has figured out how to do the kinds of shows he is so well known for, mixing high-minded thinking, compassionate political ideas, and entertaining broadcast methods. Read…
Read More »“Tan Mill” by Richard Marion (c) 2012 See more artwork at www.richardmarion.net
Read More »An old friend of mine last night sent a message on Facebook saying she recently had heard the brilliant filmmaker Ken Burns speak in Brattleboro, Vermont, which got me thinking about my first encounter with Burns. My recollection is that I saw his documentary about the Statue of Liberty that was broadcast in 1985…
Read More »Thanks to the Beat Museum in San Francisco and its website www.kerouac.com, here’s news about a film release date for the movie version of Jack Kerouac’s legendary novel “On the Road.” The cast includes Amy Adams, who starred in “The Fighter” and Viggo Mortensen of “The Lord of the Rings”…
Read More »Writing quite moderately about Mitt Romney today, NYTimes opinion columnist Nicholas Kristof reviews past charges of flip-flopping candidates and reminds of us of Paul Tsongas calling Bill Clinton “a pander bear” in 1992—there are photos of Paul holding up a stuffed panda bear at campaign rallies. I don’t know who came…
Read More »Here’s the third group of South Common haiku from the Facebook postings in November and December. If we ever get a pile of snow this winter, I’ll try to write another batch with the Common in white.—PM . South Common Haiku Set (III) . Who has not looked up and seen…
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