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Ready (or Not) for Surprise

By John on February 10, 2012 | 5 Responses

[See the note at the foot of this post for information about this video.] From whiskey river: I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time. There’s a certain humor in realizing that. I can never figure out the kind of tie to put on in the morning. I don’t have any strategy or [...]

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Posted in Cartoons & Animation, Poetry, Ruminations, whiskey river Fridays | Tagged John Green, Jos Ley, Leonard Cohen, Louise Glück, Mark Twain, mathematics, surprise, Tomas Tranströmer, trefoil knots | 5 Responses

The Kindness of Every Split-Second

By John on January 27, 2012 | 11 Responses

[Image: display window of "mini-prints" taken with the Fujifilm Instax camera (originally from the Photojojo store). See note at bottom of post for more.] From whiskey river: You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class, this really great math class taught by this tiny old woman. She was [...]

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Posted in Art & Photography, Humor, Movies, Poetry, Ruminations, Television, Theater, whiskey river Fridays | Tagged Anne Stevenson, dead parrot sketch, Instax, John Cleese, John Green, Mary Oliver, Monty Python, Pearl S. Buck | 11 Responses

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