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You know how Google comes up with a neat little graphic to integrate into its logo on holidays? I love that.
But they've really outdone themselves today. Behold:
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Music, music, music
Well, I've had some time to think it over, and here are my picks (in no particular order) for the music from 2006 that you really should run out and buy now:
Sloan, Never Hear The End Of It
Hawksley Workman, Treeful Of Starling
Camera Obscura, Let's Get Out Of This Country
The Essex Green, Cannibal Sea
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Pirate kitty!
Exciting! This weekend, Amy & I took in this sweet new kitty. A woman near Amy's hometown found the little girl yelping in the woods with a badly injured eye, nursed her back to health, and then put her up for adoption. Not long thereafter, Amy & I found ourselves in possession of a fine black kitten with a sweet nature and a squinty little pirate ( Read more... ) -
The Unilateral Playlist returns
The National Playlist (may it rest in peace) may be dead, but I've decided that it's time for The Unilateral Playlist to make like Lazarus. It's been a long, loooong time since I've Unilaterally Playlisted (read: forced my musical opinions on my unwitting friendslist). But it occurs to me that I've been getting excited about lots of music that is ( Read more... ) -
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Here's good news: by the grace of God, I've passed my bar exams. Now all I have to do is attend some classes in May (and avoid being fired or arrested for the next 10 months) and I'll be an honest-to-goodness lawyer. Hear hear! -
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Well! My extended four-month period as a man of leisure comes to an end when I start my new job tomorrow. I'd be inconsolable about the demise of my vacation and the end of summer were it not for the fact that my job is going to ABSOLUTELY ROCK. Which is probably the first time anyone has ever described the life of a legal researcher at a court of ( Read more... ) -
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Well! Finally saw X3 tonight. I'm actually quite glad that just about everyone I knew told me it was going to be a terrible movie, as this lowered my expectations to the point where I really enjoyed it when I finally saw it ( Read more... ) -
Well said
This superb Globe & Mail article perfectly expresses the way I (and a lot of other people, I suspect) feel about America, a great country that's losing its way.
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Best news of the year
U.S. Supreme Court blocks Guantanamo war crimes trialsSeriously: this is a marvelous, and long-awaited, step back from the Bush administration's War On Freedom. I know that sounds ridiculously overblown, but the right to a fair trial has been a fundamental, bedrock principle of all free societies since... well, since the concept of a free society ( Read more... )