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4 days ago
The Lancer was a legend (certainly in my mind, and by the looks of all the cars parked akimbo on Saturday nights, in real life as well).  About half way between downtown Cleveland and my home on the east side, it was one of the only remarkable things on my travels down the Carnegie corridor. For me, Carnegie was a way to get home from downtown or the airport.  It was a liminal place.  The Lancer, was a waypost, a mark that I was half way home. A visit to the Lancer has been on my list of Cleveland holiday visit to-dos forever, sitting just north or south of a stop by the The House of Swing (Where Jazz is King!) another legend from my youth, and a place I only saw from car windows. I never got to go to the Lancer.  I’m gonna go to the House of Swing next time I am home. ps.  Check out the large version of this photo, taken by Cleveland SGS.  Stunning.

The Lancer was a legend (certainly in my mind, and by the looks of all the cars parked akimbo on Saturday nights, in real life as well).  About half way between downtown Cleveland and my home on the east side, it was one of the only remarkable things on my travels down the Carnegie corridor.

For me, Carnegie was a way to get home from downtown or the airport.  It was a liminal place.  The Lancer, was a waypost, a mark that I was half way home.

A visit to the Lancer has been on my list of Cleveland holiday visit to-dos forever, sitting just north or south of a stop by the The House of Swing (Where Jazz is King!) another legend from my youth, and a place I only saw from car windows.

I never got to go to the Lancer.  I’m gonna go to the House of Swing next time I am home.

ps.  Check out the large version of this photo, taken by Cleveland SGS.  Stunning.

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5 days ago
Reminiscing about iconic images and characters from my childhood that I had forgotten about. The buzzard from 100.7 WMMS

Reminiscing about iconic images and characters from my childhood that I had forgotten about.

The buzzard from 100.7 WMMS

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2 weeks ago
The question he is answering is, “What do you want to do before you die?” The answers are then streamed on a screen just outside this photo to the left. It’s an ad for The Buried Life on MTv.  I passed this somewhere in the mid-forties on 5th avenue on my way to lunch.

The question he is answering is, “What do you want to do before you die?”

The answers are then streamed on a screen just outside this photo to the left.

It’s an ad for The Buried Life on MTv.  I passed this somewhere in the mid-forties on 5th avenue on my way to lunch.

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2 weeks ago
“I haven’t put on weight. Your eyes are fat.”
From the sleep talkin’ man.  I don’t buy that he uttered any of his brilliant quips while asleep, but even awake, he has more quotable lines than most script writers.
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3 weeks ago
“Flight attendants will tell you to turn it off on take off and landing. You can’t explain that it’s epaper and uses no current. You just can’t. It’s like explaining heaven to bears.”
# 7 from 10 reasons to buy a Kindle 2… and 10 reasons not to
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Just the highlights — 4 weeks ago

Interesting article about the Air Force getting innundated with raw footage from Predator and Reaper drones in the field and how they are struggling to synthesize the data.  Interestingly, they’ve been camping out in ESPN trucks during football games to learn how ESPN tags and retrieves highlight film.

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1 month ago
“There is tremendous power in putting your ass where your heart wants to be.”
Steven Pressfield
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1 month ago
Twitter trending topics on the TV in my elevator at work.

Twitter trending topics on the TV in my elevator at work.

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2 months ago
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

The Geese of Beverly Road, by the National.

I have been on a real National kick over the last few weeks.

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2 months ago
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

From Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

When I came across this quote in the book I remember stopping in my tracks.  I didn’t mark the page and was never able to find (or recall) it again.

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