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Obama, Clinton, and CantaloupesVox Pop[2 April 2008] by Meta WagnerThe media will keep playing YouTube videos and speculating about politicians’ intentions rather than doing the hard investigative work -- simply because they can.
Vox Pop
Anywhere, USAMeta Wagner18.Jun.08 It seems to me that people in the US are actually craving not change, as we're hearing in current campaign rhetoric, but rather sameness -- and more than ever. 
Broads Don’t Blog, Especially in HaikuMeta Wagner29.Apr.08 Broads can only thrive under certain social conditions, and those conditions, alas, no longer exist. But a new species has emerged... 
A Return to RhetoricMeta Wagner12.Mar.08 Long past the days of the eloquent Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., or John F. Kennedy, Americans have rediscovered the desire to be absorbed by words, stirred by words, even awed by words, again.
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Negritude 2.0: Retelling the History of Black Music: Everything You Know about the Blues Is Wrong
By Mark Reynolds [3.Jul.08] Variations on a Theme: The Sounds of Now: Tristan Murail and Sounding Stasis
By Chadwick Jenkins [2.Jul.08] Jazz Today: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
By Will Layman [27.Jun.08] Channel Crossings: Re-make/Re-Model and the Becoming of Bryan Ferry
By Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski [19.Jun.08] |
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Yes, but cantaloupe goes so well with prosciutto--isn’t that a mitigating factor?
Comment by Susan from Boston — April 30, 2008 @ 4:18 pm