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I saw recently that the song “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” from Encanto is a big hit, getting airplay on radio and moving up the Billboard chart. It’s an odd song as a stand-alone, and, to my mind, much inferior to the best song of the movie, “Surface Pressure,” which is beautiful and complex and universal.¹ Without knowing the story of the movie, or reliving it during the song, as a stand-alone vehicle, for me, it feels taste-less (not “tasteless”). … Continue reading “What We Don’t Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Bruno”

I knew my computer was dying. The couple of shut-down crashes plus an actual BSOD¹ or two in the past few months let me know things were not going well. Apple famously projects a two-year lifespan for their products. After that, they are out-dated and on their way to becoming obsolete. My banger, which once once been a Vista machine, had been rebirthed as Win7, and had watched 8, 8.1, 10, and now 11 go by. It had been 12 … Continue reading “Mortality & the Failing Hard Disc”

Jews are an historically stateless people, and so had to invest their time and wealth in that which could be transported without confiscation –education. – David Mamet, The Secret Knowledge, p12.   I used to be paid to be a pirate. This was before the Internet as we know it got big. I would get instructions and run all over my university campus to photocopy–with the company-provided copier-card–scholarly articles from any of the specialized libraries. It had to be fast, … Continue reading “Confession of a Literary Pirate”

I stopped my Social Media. I forgot where I first read it. Must’ve been one of those “Don’t do this first thing in the morning” posts. or “Avoid this One Thing.” Something like that. And the “one thing” was get on Social Media. Twitter. Instagram. Facebook. Reddit. Imgur. Any of it. These were marked as mind killers. What I had found by my own experience was that if I did get on twitter, or reddit, or whatever, likely from a … Continue reading “Kicking Social Media Dopamine”