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Glorious Discoveries

Well, I’m back from directing Bedtime Stories at Upper Canada Playhouse and I’m slowly digging out of my backlog. But I just wanted to post a great online radio station that I’ve found.
It’s a Jazz and Heritage radio station in New Orleans called WWOZ and it is absolutely amazing. I’ve been listening for two days [...]

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The best 2 minute commercial I’ve seen.

I used to believe that episodic tv could barely compete with the production value of 30-second tv spots. Commercials had $2 million for 30 seconds - an episode of a series had less budget to make 52 minutes. The only leg-up was story-and-character: time to develop was on the side of the series.
But 2 minute [...]

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Exhileration

There was something incredible about this photograph.

Theoretical physicist Steven Hawking experiencing zero gravity, all expenses paid by Richard Branson of Virgin, on the Zero G (it cost him about about 100K but regular trips are about $3500; book your seat today.). One of the smartest men in the world experiencing something he only imagined, [...]

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Mid-Year Resolutions

While I’ve never been a big one for making New Year’s Resolutions - and certainly not for keeping New Year’s Resolutions, here’s a new twist:
Considering there are 0 days remaining until January 1, 2008, I’ll call this my Mid-Year Resolution: more posts, each with an observation, something I’ve learned, or something popular among the Brogue [...]

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Colder.

Zeldman started it.

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