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All Of Me
Gerald Marks You know that awkward feeling you get when someone means the world to you and you mean significantly less to them? If not, good for you. If so, you’re in fine company, including that of Gerald Marks, who in 1931 wrote the lyrics to All Of Me. In the year 2000 the song… Read more
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Review: Maira Kalman Selects
I’m not really into design, per se, but I went to the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum because this sounded look an interesting exhibit. In Maira Kalman‘s own words: “What is this room about? Very loosely, it is about life and death.But isn’t everything? It is about falling in love with a group of objects.”… Read more
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Win It All
Photo by Jim Summaria I first heard Ian Hunter as the voice of Mott the Hoople, singing All The Young Dudes. “Speed jiveDon’t want to stay aliveWhen you’re twenty-five.” In December of 1974, Ian Hunter left Mott the Hoople for a solo career. One of his first hits was a song called Irene Wilde, one… Read more
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The Meaning of Life
I recently re-read Kurt Vonnegut’s second novel, The Sirens of Titan, from 1959. A reviewer of the book in Esquire wrote about the author: “He dares not only to ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it.” The book is dedicated: For Alex Vonnegut, special agent, with love.… Read more
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Through My Head
I’ve always had trouble getting some things through my head (I’m looking at you trigonometry) but nothing has given me more trouble than people. I like people, and they generally seem to like me, but liking something isn’t the same as understanding it. And simply acknowledging that something exists in reality isn’t the same as… Read more
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