Month: January 2008

In the Playa: the Green Apple Splatters’ “Somebody Save Us from the Heave”!

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Several years ago, when Charles was contributing to alt.music.cheap-trick regularly, I’d read too, though I rarely posted. We had gone to Trickfest 3 together, and it was fun to read the group actually having met several of the participants. A recurring thread topic was “In the Playa,” in which people would share what they were … Read more

iLuddism

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I held an iPhone for the first time a couple of weeks ago. We went to Alex and Melissa’s for dinner, and Santa Claus brought them one, so I got to play with it for a good long while. There’s no doubt it’s a fantastic product. It was more substantial than I expected it to … Read more

Bobby Fischer dead at 64

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Bobby Fischer, the only American ever to hold the official FIDE World Chess Championship, died of kidney failure at his home in Reykjavik yesterday.  He was 64. My grandfather was both a patriot and a chess enthusiast, and it’s clear from his writings, scrapbooks, and library that he thought the 1972 World Chess Championship rather … Read more

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