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Nota Bene #125: Awesome Stuff

“I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.” Who said it?

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Nota Bene #124: I'm a Doctor, Not an Engineer

“I don’t believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough.” Who said it?

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Nota Bene #123: Behold the Chickenosaurus

“There ought to be limits to freedom.” Who said it?

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Stuart O'Steen is not a crook

But he is Richard Nixon. Stuart, longtime friend to S&R, is a veteran stage actor who portrays the former president in the Longmont (Colorado) Theatre Company‘s ambitious take on Frost/Nixon. I had the great pleasure of recently seeing the production. As a politics junkie and student of American political history, particularly of the Watergate debacle, […]

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Of Pogues and Pranks

I just found out an amusing fact about old Shane MacGowan, the brilliant songsmith who founded one of Celtic rock’s most celebrated bands and is somehow still with us after years of reckless merriment, spirits having literally preserved him. Another influential musician (albeit in a different genre) recounted something from his youth in England that […]

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Nota Bene #122: OWStanding

“When I lie on the beach there naked, which I do sometimes, and I feel the wind coming over me and I see the stars up above and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night, it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe. Then I think: ‘God, I have no importance. Whatever […]

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Nota Bene #121: Birds of an Ancient Feather

“Television is an invention whereby you can be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your house.” Who said it? The answer is at the end of this post. Now on to the links!

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Nota Bene #120: Crazy Ivan

“If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s earth.” Who said it?

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Nota Bene #119: Think! It Ain't Illegal Yet

“My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.” Who said it?

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On Richard Pryor: It was something he said

The great medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer created timeless characters in his Canterbury Tales; archetypal personalities such as the Wife of Bath and the Miller endure to this day. Through them Chaucer could readily celebrate, criticize and satirize different aspects of the society of his time. Additionally, Chaucer, as a public servant and man of the […]

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Talk about a power grab!

Arianna Huffington once put the squeeze on Jimmy Kimmel, and in the strangest way possible. Start the video at 0:53 to get right to the… er, bottom of this. X-posted from Jazz from Hell

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Pekar Tribute 12, the Finale: Bill Alger

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Pekar Tribute 11: James Smith

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Pekar Tribute 10: Zina Saunders

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Pekar Tribute 9: Kenny Be

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Pekar Tribute 8: A. N. Cargo

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