Archive for September 2008

What I’ve been reading during the campaign season

Monday, September 29, 2008

From “Collapsing Dominant” by George W. S. Trow:
Democracy opens up the possibility of “abandonment,” and creates opportunities for men and women who understand how to play to or on that feeling.

“Who’ll bring any moose to its knees”

Sunday, September 28, 2008

“I Can See Russia from Alaska (When I Look in Your Eyes)”
Matthew Brookshire

“Miss Lachrymose”

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

In her very first stage appearance Doris Day wet herself. It was in her hometown of Cincinnati in 1927. She was five years old and not yet Doris Day. She was still Doris Kappelhoff and the red satin pants that her mother, Alma, had sewn for the kindergarten pageant were quick to betray her.
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