The Hollow Men

Let us go then, you and I…

Posted on November 3rd, 2009 by Shotts
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We’re coming up on three months without one new comment or post.

Posted on June 29th, 2009 by Shotts
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Looking out to that horizon, today, on the release of a new U2 album, it seems appropriate to write to you all with a serious proposal. Namely, let’s look forward and think about a significant journey to Ireland. I’m not suggesting this happen next month, maybe not even this year, but if there is interest [...]

Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by Shotts
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Eliot came home a couple of weeks ago and all of the sudden read me a book. It was quite a moment for me as you can imagine. We’re reading the Tale of Despereaux, which is better than the movie. I just finished reading a book of essays by Wendell Berry, entitled, The Way of [...]

Posted on January 12th, 2009 by Ned
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Oh the long tradition. Much regret we are not gathering together. Many good wishes and gratitude to all of you on this Thanksgiving. A lot to be thankful for this year. A raised glass to you.

Posted on November 23rd, 2008 by Shotts
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Yes, indeed, we might well have been the luckiest of all our friends this weekend. We got a first hand Beckett sighting and Clara sighting as well. Bouncing baby Beckett, a bundle of beautiful babbling, was quite the sight. We are grateful to the Shotts-Aspengrens for hosting us and only wish we would have had [...]

Posted on September 17th, 2008 by Pete
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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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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 Kungfu [...]

Posted on July 5th, 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 [...]

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 during [...]

Posted on June 17th, 2008 by J.E.
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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Tobias
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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 [...]

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 [...]

Posted on March 14th, 2008 by Tobias
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I have to say, it has been about as quiet as it has ever been on the HM site. J.E. and I seem to be keeping some nominal chatter, but I haven’t seen Toby or Peters here for quite a while. That seems surprising considering all that has been going on the last few weeks: [...]

Posted on March 8th, 2008 by Shotts
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Well, maybe not, but it has been pretty quiet. It was good to see Peters, and Toby, Steph, and Clara (at least for a few minutes) as well as speak with Shotts (as well as J.E. for a few minutes). I’d like to post a bunch of stuff, but I am afraid I don’t have [...]

Posted on January 6th, 2008 by Ned
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