Monthly Archives: March 2010

End of an era: Video store moo-ving out.

Posted on March 28, 2010 by

It was over a quarter of a century ago that I went to a video store in Brooklyn and rented a cassette with a movie on it. The film? The 1982 remake of “Cat People” with Malcolm McDowell, Nastassja Kinski, … Continue reading →

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Saving face. Funny Face, that is.

Posted on March 21, 2010 by

There is nothing more satisfying for a journalist – even a journalist like me whose principal beat is his cats’ Olympic medal turd hockey tournaments – than seeing one of his columns make a difference in the world.   This … Continue reading →

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The real March madness? Mud season.

Posted on March 14, 2010 by

Eileen Clemens Granfors, an English teacher, will always be grateful to mud season because one year she was able to use it as a teaching moment. “I stepped out of the SUV to get the morning paper prior to teaching … Continue reading →

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You can’t judge a book (tour) by its cover

Posted on March 7, 2010 by

Last month I was on the “Secrets of Eden,” rock ‘n’ roll, get your T-shirts, running slime dog of literary capitalism book tour, and I lost zero pairs of underwear and vomited zero times on Dash 8 turboprops. In other … Continue reading →

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