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Winehouse.

I’m slowly but surely catching up on work lately. That does not mean that I’m at all caught up. I attribute all of this to the dulcet-harsh tones of Amy Winehouse, who has just the most amazing pipes....

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Slope.

I read with some mild interest the article in the New York Times May 18 Sunday Style section called Park Slope: Where Is the Love? In it, the writer, Lynn Harris, interviews two people who I knew,...

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(Y)Ike.

What with the stock market crash, the Palin surge, and the all of the sabre rattling going on, I’ve found myself not able to focus on the immensity of the Ike hurricane. Like most people, I get a lot...

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That Great Depression.

It’s so completely difficult to stop shaking my head in amazement at the tripe being pushed out of the Bush and McCain sausage factory. Here’s a government and party that got us into the worst economic...

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2009 DD45.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RKKgMDK7A4&hl=en&fs=1] The Times has a fine series of guest columnists on how unlikely (and how sublime) it is that Earth would have been hit on Monday...

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Angela.

It’s snowing and raining and gray here in ol’ Winnipeg, Canada. This pretty much captures the spirit of the world. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAOxo8qH_AQ&hl=en&fs=1]

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Bye GM.

In the same way that I’m surprised Obama made it to the presidency, I’m amazed that General Motors has failed. (Kottke has absolutely the best series of articles in one place on the history and logic...

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Four Months.

It’s been four short months since I last wrote on Deckchairs. I want to apologize to my (few) but dedicated followers who have, during that time, consistently urged me to get my writing act together...

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Ten Best of 2009.

Okay, everyone has a list and here’s mine. I’m sticking to it. Here are the ten (10) best things to come out of 2009, from the exclusive Deckchairs deck: Cool writing tools for the Mac. Between the...

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Tolle and Kempis.

It’s been a while. It’s not that I don’t think about Deckchairs. Rather, I think about it every day, at least for a few minutes to an hour. And my interests in writing and blogs haven’t changed. But my...

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