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You’ll have to give me a bit of a pass on the daily post. Attending the second funeral in a little over a month of a friend taken too soon has not really put me in the writing mood. Plus, I spent the afternoon shopping, and you know what kind of mood that puts [...]

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Is this the weirdest day of the year, or what? The day after a major holiday, which in itself has become something of a holiday celebrating consumerism. It’s officially the start of the Ohmigod Christmas Is Almost Here And I Haven’t Done Any Shopping guilt-inducing period. Makes me actually want to go out [...]

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According to several articles like this one, Americans are in a dark holiday mood this year. Fellow Americans, what’s wrong with you? I don’t know about Americans in general, but I know my mood is pretty grim. Going to two funerals of two good friends within one month will do that to you. [...]

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Faithful reader Janet asks, in the comments to yesterday’s post: Hey Flassherooni, to continue an earlier conversation, would you consider devoting a NaBloPoMo entry to your thoughts on Kindle?
Good question, Librarian, and thanks for the topic. (Note: See my recent thoughts on eBooks here and here.) On first perusal, it looks pretty darn [...]

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Day 20 of National Blog Posting Month and I’ve managed to stretch this Denver Film Festival thing out to three posts. Hooray for me! Be glad I didn’t milk it for five, which was my original plan. I generally had a fun time at the Festival this year, and it makes me [...]

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Saturday was my second (and last) day attending the Denver Film Festival, and the penultimate day of the festival. I saw two films that day, both documentaries.
The first was Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic. This was a movie about the making of a modern day opera, sung in English and performed [...]

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