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The Great Christmas Music War
Wednesday December 9, 2009
I love Christmas. It’s my favorite holiday. And I loathe Christmas music. Every year, growing up, my father would venture to the Firestone Tire store to buy the annual Firestone Christmas compilation. And every year we would listen to Johnny Mathis and Julie Andrews and Bing Crosby, the old, reliable holiday schlockmeisters, as we....
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Orisons for Third and Long
Tuesday December 8, 2009
I sit here watching quarterback Tim Tebow and the Florida Gators lose the SEC championship to Alabama, their first loss since September of 2008, when they fell to my Ole Miss Rebels, 30-31. Alabama fans are jubilant; deservedly so. Theirs is a feeling....
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Thanksgiving with Habakkuk
Monday December 7, 2009
One lost her husband over the summer in a freak accident on a tractor, leaving her alone with two adopted children still healing from prior traumas suffered in a Russian orphanage. Another lost portions of several digits on his feet and one on his hand to....
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The Moment Between Skips
Friday December 4, 2009
So I’m sitting here in the luscious backyard desert-garden of the cottage we’ve rented in Tucson for the winter...watching birds peck at the bird-feeder and the bright desert sun flicker onto the grapefruits nearly ripe in the bushy tree across the garden. I’m sitting here....
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Everything All of the Time
Thursday December 3, 2009
Perhaps above all else, ["Idioteque"] captures the philosophical essence of Radiohead—oblique existentialist lyrics that nonetheless unmistakably suggest confusion, helplessness and menace, wedded to a song structure that....
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