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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Up in the Air (For Now)
It looks as though if I’m going to blog about my new guilty pleasure, ABC’s Pan Am, I’d better do it right now. According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, its audience dropped from 11 million the first week … Continue reading
The Party at the End of the World
As I prepare to celebrate – well, perhaps acknowledge would be a better word – my 56th birthday today, one of the memories that keeps coming up is that of my 7th birthday, almost 50 years ago. It was one … Continue reading
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Tagged birthday parties, Cuban missile crisis, end of the world, October 1962
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Why I’m Stomping on Comping
Earlier this year, my father, sister, and spouse went out to celebrate my father’s 91st birthday on a Saturday afternoon. We chose a restaurant in Palo Alto that we enjoy very much, and it was quiet, with only a few … Continue reading
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A Modest Proposal – Updated
In 1729, satirist Jonathan Swift (at left) put forth what he called A Modest Proposal, in which he suggested that, rather than housing the exploding numbers of poor Irish children, they be eaten instead. After all, they were tasty and … Continue reading
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Middle-Age Cranky 