Over the last few weeks, I viewed the films Persepolis and Sweetland. I would highly recommend them both. They are very different films but both excellently conceived and executed lower budget projects. Both films are also slightly and refreshingly understated by today’s standards. I also just finished Rebecca Solnit’s “River of Shadows: Eadward Mubridge and [...]
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Ned
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn died last week passing quietly with less recognition in the news than Paris Hilton’s campaign ad. Having read two of his works, Day in the Life of…, The First Circle, as well as some essays, in particular A World Split Apart, which was an address given at Harvard, it is my opinion he [...]
Posted on August 10th, 2008 by Ned
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Sara and I took the kids to the MN Science Museum to see the Star Wars exhibit. They had a lot of models and costumes from all the films. Eliot loved it, but he was so excited still after two hours that he wouldn’t be quiet in the Omnitheater. We also went to see [...]
Posted on July 5th, 2008 by Ned
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There is an article about the Colony Collapse Disorder in the Times, here.
Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Ned
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The baby is at thirty-three weeks!
ODE
Snow making morning of the darkness, that involuntary light.
Can’t you make today a praise of something more than worry,
More than indecision, more than just the sun showing up late
Again at the edges of the fallen snow, gray and purple, then finally
The sky follows blue and pink like an anxious pregnancy?
This [...]
Posted on June 18th, 2008 by Shotts
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So as the solstice approaches and with it the “official” beginning of summer it is time to reflect on summer goals. Since I have never left the educational schedule in my work life I still put a lot of emphasis on what I can accomplish during the summer that I wish I could do [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by J.E.
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I thought you artist types might enjoy this.
Here is a video of my friend Jim Janknegt that documents his progress while painting “The Rich Fool.” I have admired his work for a long time and I’m glad to see him get this kind of attention. Ned: perhaps Rejesus would be interested [...]
Posted on June 5th, 2008 by J.E.
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1) I have read Atonement now. The book is different than the movie, the latter part being significantly different. I feel that it is more baffling than the movie too. I’m not sure what to make of it.
I feel that McEwan is making a statement about how certain behaviors can not be made right [...]
Posted on June 4th, 2008 by Ned
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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Tobias
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OK, so I am a little late to weigh in on the old discussion, so I thought I might renew it as I have finally been able to take this great movie in. I have to admit that I enjoyed it thoroughly and that it has haunted my thoughts the last couple of days [...]
Posted on June 1st, 2008 by Pete
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There’s an endearing article on the Jones chronicles in the Times today, not as important as Rauschenberg perhaps as J.E. has helped make evident, but diverting.
Cllick here for the Jones Article.
Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Ned
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Robert Rauschenberg is dead. There is a good article at the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/design/14rauschenberg.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Ned
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I was listening to a speech by Michelle Obama yesterday afternoon and had a couple of thoughts. I hadn’t really thought much about this until yesterday, but I think Barrack is what this country needs in this era because of the fact that he probably has the best perspective of how economic policies affect [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Pete
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…this new Devotchka album is fantastic, amongst many of Ned’s rightnesses. Here’s three tracks I enjoyed in the time I’ve had to listen.
01 Devotchka | The Clockwise Witness02 Devotchka | Transliterator03 Devotchka | New World
On with the Ned theme. Here’s another artist I heard this week and it totally sounded like an artist Ned [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by Tobias
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You guys might have heard, the first Indiana Jones movie in 19 years is coming out this Memorial Day weekend. So, Steph and I have devised an equation.
Memorial Day + Kansas City + HM and their wives + Indiana Jones + (optional beer & pipes) = a Memorable Weekend
Are you in or are you out? [...]
Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Tobias
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