Month: November 2006
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Sat Next to a Bare Naked Lady on the Red Eye Last Night
In minor celebrity news, I flew home from a business trip in Los Angeles last night and did some armrest wrestling with the frontman for Bare Naked Ladies. Seems most (but not all) the band was on my flight. Very full flight. Seems every flight is crazy-full these days, no matter what time or where…
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Carving a Turkey is Really All About Dismantling a Turkey
So on Thanksgiving I had to carve the turkey. Even though I am a grown 39-year old man, a father of two, a divorced family guy who has seen my fair share of November dining rooms, it was the first time I ever carved a turkey. I think it’s for the same reason I’ve never…
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Remembering the Sarajevan Cellist
So the other day someone wrote to me through my John F. Burns website and requested “the 1992 article on vedran smailovic – the cellist of Sarajevo”. Back in the olden days, before Times Select, before all you needed was a home delivery subscription to the Times to have complete access to their archive going…
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Making Art with Amazon aStore
I am an internet artist. I used to be a poet. For a long time the only thing that mattered to me was being a poet. Ever since my first aol account, however, I started messing around with art on the internet. It is an exciting and– I think in hindsight we’ll say– brutal time…
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Launch: Falk-PLI
Falk-PLI Engineering & Surveying Services is a nifty new website for the world of Industrial Measurement, Civil Engineering, and Land Surveying.