If you read the title, you have already been treated to my only significant original contribution to this post. The remainder is an indulgence in the notion that an accumulation of worthless items somehow has a value the individual items lack. This is, as anyone who has attended an arts & crafts fair or graded [...]
Entries from August 31st, 2006
Meeting Fictional Characters
August 30th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Media
As I mentioned in an earlier post,1 I have had only two or three minor interactions with celebrities and have laid eyes on perhaps another half-dozen in settings other than performances (e.g., I watched Valerie Harper cross Michigan Avenue). That I recall these instances at all indicates that I am susceptible to the fascination with [...]
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Books About Houses: A Handful Of Madeleines
August 29th, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Madeleines, Media
Five books recommended for anyone who is buying a house, who already owns a house, who lives, has lived or might someday live in a house, who has ever played house, …
Why Read About Building Houses?
First, none of these books falls in the Do-It-Yourself Project genre. Nor are they polemical tracts about ecologically sustainable homes, [...]
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