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Overcast this morning. Clear in the afternoon. The high was in the mid 40s. It was the kind of day that suggested a feeling that implied what flirting with spring might, one day, be like. The forecasts...
View ArticleFirst day of classes
As I got out of the car we were in the process of temperatures dropping from the low 60s into the low 30s. It isn’t usually as noticeably dramatic as all that, but I can say that after class I went...
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I’ve been needing to get this off of my chest
Before it was a commercial … It was a movie … And before it was a movie it was graffiti … And also, apparently, a rather famous poem. This has been troubling me for a while. Mostly, I just wanted to...
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Being impressionable
I am not a food blogger. I am not a food blogger. I am not a food blogger. But I went to The Paw Paw Patch, which does a cafeteria style meat-and-three. And the vegetables were a childhood memory. I...
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Why didn’t anyone ever recognize Forrest Gump, anyway?
I ran five miles in 75 degrees with 79 percent humidity tonight. Think I just exercise for Shot Bloks, which is fuel that tastes like candy to me. But you’re not here about that. Right. Back to our...
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There is Star Trek at the end of this post
We went for a run in the middle of the day, because running takes less time, and we haven’t done it in a while. Here’s the more-sunny-than-you-realize path. I discovered today that I’m big on the mind...
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Sigoggling
Sometimes you spend all day in your office, doing office things. Sometimes you do office things and it doesn’t even seem like you’ve done office things. But, then, sometimes, you spend all day doing...
View ArticleI’ve just invented the teaser-teaser
Millions of views for the teaser trailer — which was an event itself today, because modern society is a quirky place. Millions of views. And most people were probably pleased: And why not? That’s...
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Travel day
I watched Unbroken today: And I watched The Wedding Ringer: That’s the one where the guy, fresh off meeting Hitch and hiring Adam Sandler to sing at the big event, hires Kevin Hart to be his best man....
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Andiamo al cinema
(Extra material from our trip to London.) I found these three posters in an Italian restaurant in London. I took a few quick snapshots because, I figured, they’d one day be worth sharing. My apologies...
View ArticleI’m BFFs with a cult movie star
Yesterday Variety reported that Ronda Rousey is going to play Dalton in a re-make-imagining-production of Road House. I’m the kind of guy that finds Road House on television and has to watch it. I am...
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You will never see John Cage Travolta the same again
Views from a ride I had this weekend: It was one of those rides where you do a few things surprising, while not doing other things. This is not a disappointment. You huff a little, you sweat a little....
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Somehow I made this all about cameras
The park, the crack of the bat, umps making bad calls, managers doing their best to make the umpires look good. (Seriously, you don’t make the last out at third.) Ahh, baseball. It is a communal sport...
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Back on the road again
We went to see the new James Bond movie late last night. Here’s my proof: We went because some of the kids in the family just had to go see the movie. And if they didn’t they might die. As in,...
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“You ever fought a dinosaur, kid?”
So we’re back at it again. Another late, late night in the newsroom. This was the view when it was still daylight outside. I did make it outside at some point. Some days it is difficult to know for...
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Notions of time
I was going to write more, but the day got away from me. The days all get away from us from time to time, even as we know the days are always going some way or another. That’s the thing about us, we...
View ArticleAn engagement, and a movie
So this happened in the studio the other night: Tonight: In honor the Little 500 races, which take place tomorrow and Saturday, we are tonight watching Breaking Away. She's already commenting on the...
View ArticleAnd now a few Twitter notes about different mediums
A downside to the online format: it is harder to make cool hats out of historic stories, like @idsnews staffers did in 1945. @IUMediaSchool pic.twitter.com/oua8RFLZ8j — Kenny Smith (@kennysmith)...
View ArticleNo wendigos allowed
Here is today’s podcast. And if you’re hungry before you listen, we’ll either solve that problem or give you some ideas. It seems there’s a new kind of meat that may be making its way into your grocery...
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Thought bubbles, I really disliked the thought bubbles
Wrote a letter today. Who does that anymore? Well, I did, that’s who. I wrote and re-wrote and then proofread and then saved the file and uploaded it. But it was a letter! There were paragraphs and a...
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