Harmless Untruths

One of my few goals in life is to someday have a house in the woods — maybe in West Virginia, near my roots in Appalachian Maryland — where I’d …
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The internet may be a timesucking black hole, but I prefer it to some of the alternatives (like tv) because at least you can feel you’re wasting your time in …
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Today DCist highlighted as “photo of the day” a scan of a letter about the photography policy of the Department of Transportation. Here in the nation’s capital, there is …
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Speaking of poetry…
I have never written much of the stuff myself, but do write a lot of song lyrics which are kind of similar in some ways (as I mentioned …
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I don’t often read poetry, but I have had a distant wisp of a poem stuck in my mind all day, and spent an hour or so leafing through books …
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I’ve always been interested in the English language, and language in general, and linguistics, and the mechanics of language, and its history. So I have been known to waste …
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For two and a half years I have been using eMusic to get my legal music fix. I thought it was nearly a perfect service. So much for …
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This past Memorial Day weekend I was out of town (as per the American tradition), but on the Friday before the holiday I spent a few minutes walking through Arlington …
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So I don’t watch cable news, but the internet tells me that there is some sort of uproar going on over on the libertarian/right quadrant of the political map. …
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Winter has returned here.
It’s not shockingly cold, but after weeks of warm weather (January is turning into DC’s most pleasant month) it’s hard to adjust. I am …
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