Archive: February 2007
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Kansas basketball / A late-season report card in kansas basketball · Feb 23, 18:33
After the loss to A&M, I jotted down some notes that I titled “Resolved & Unresolved.” In the subsequent five games, there has been a migration of some items from one list to the other, mostly in the direction of resolution, which is nice.
ResolvedRotation. Coach Self seems like he’s found the right starters, and [...]
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Small worlds / Phil Collins, The World Won’t Listen in inside art, san francisco, the ancient past, visual · Feb 8, 21:32
I met Phil Collins (the British artist, not the British pop star1) at a bar in Brooklyn in the mid 90’s. At the time, I didn’t know him as “the British artist,” I knew him only as my friend Tom’s legendary boyfriend. I remember little of the night, but I do remember a hubbub [...]
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National nightmares / Restoring a modicum of utility to the Complete New Yorker in ixd, lit · Feb 1, 22:10
I was one of the suckers who pre-ordered The Complete New Yorker magazine. I am a long-long-time New Yorker reader, and the enticement was just too powerful — 8 DVDs filled with 60+ years of cultural commentary, quirky cartoons and cool cover art, all in a distinct highbrow-yet-practical-minded voice and scanned in at super-high-res? For [...]
