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Althouse - Jan 3, 2008
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle pays tribute to our former governor, Lee Sherman Dreyfus, who died yesterday. Dreyfus, who had been ill for some time, died Wednesday evening from "respiratory failure relative to a heart …
Althouse - Dec 29, 2007
The NYT Magazine has its annual "Lives They Lived" issue, with short essays on a wide range of individuals who died in the past year. A blogger gets a farewell essay this year. Steve Gillard: Though Gilliard, unlike …
Also tagged: animals, music, technology, blogging, tv, movies, partisanship
Althouse - Dec 22, 2007
Do you visit a grave? Do you have a tradition? Pebble on the headstone? Something else? I saw this yesterday, done precisely the same for each of 4 or 5 graves in a line: A small fire had burnt out. Each grave had …
Also tagged: photography, food
Althouse - Dec 22, 2007
I take fewer photographs in winter. It gets dark early, walks are shorter and quicker, and there's much less happening. I could make a practice of looking harder and forcing myself to see photographs, but I mostly I …
Also tagged: animals, photography, driving
Althouse - Dec 22, 2007
Very foggy today... in the midst of much snow... I was driving around... Shopping for Christmas... But the graves were standing still...
Also tagged: photography, christmas
Althouse - Dec 16, 2007
"It's having been native to an era and a culture in which self (and sex) was almost ideologically paramount, which, unless you've gotten over it, doesn't leave you too well provided for when self (and sex) begins to …
Also tagged: baby boomers, aging, celibacy
Althouse - Dec 13, 2007
Ike Turner — one of the originators of rock and roll — has died. "Rocket 88" — according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — "is widely considered the first rock and roll record." ADDED: Jon Pareles writes a nice …
Althouse - Nov 25, 2007
Noël Coward's last words, from a review by John Simon. Lots of good tidbits in the review. I like this one: "To me, the essence of good comedy writing is that perfectly ordinary phrases such as ‘Just fancy!’ should …
Also tagged: technology, books, comedy, theater
Althouse - Nov 24, 2007
Things Marilyn Manson bought using his band's money, according to a lawsuit filed by keyboardist Stephen "Pogo" Bier. Showing a tin ear for public relations — or a keen ear for what pleases a certain niche fan — Manson …
Althouse - Nov 19, 2007
"When she fell down, I felt like I took hold of something from the grave."