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Lightning Round...

Was watching an interview by Greta Van Sustern of the "first dude" talking about his wife, Sarah Palin, and realized that nothing quite makes you feel like an underachiever like someone about your age achieving what they have. Hey kids, our turn!

I really haven't watched Zefferelli's Romeo & Juliet enough.

Amy Welborn hasn't blogged on Sarah Palin and I'm feeling it, especially after her recent tease promising to blog on politics. She's sort of the photographic negative of Hans Brinker putting his finger in the dike to stop a blog-flood: as soon as she weighs in then we can all move on and the tide will ebb. (Well, maybe not but...)

I bought the Titanic DVD partially for the ending song even though when I first heard it I hated it as it seemed maudlin and awash in sentiment. But now it's grown on me in part because it's one of the pieces my wife plays on the piano now and then.

"The Drowsy Lads" is my new favorite Irish music group.

The Amazon Kindle saves me a lot of money in printer ink; I rarely print anything anymore, preferring to send it to Kindle.

The prom pictures of the Palins remind me that the worst thing about the '80s was the hairstyles.

Here's the etymology of etymology.

One measure of the writerly craft is to prompt a phone call from Ham o' Bone, in this case by the death of David Foster Wallace. It somehow seems odd that someone could write this and yet commit suicide.

Least like cultural First Things "On the Square" reference might've been the lyrics to the song "In the year 2525..." --- but lo & behold....

These sorts of "30 skills every IT person needs" lists leave me tired and in need of a beer. I hereby formally protest the absence of the writing of poetry on that list.

Two things I would never have/use but for family member gifts: a cell phone and flip-flops.

I would like someday to have satellite radio since Columbus has no classical music during drive-time anymore. Plus I hear there's an '80s music channel (*drool*).