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Heart-rending story in the New York Times, The Life and Death of Therapist Bob Bergeron. … but perhaps rending not the way you think. Depending on whether, of course, you are a gay man. I’m not, but the beauty-fade? The loss of looks, beyond one’s control? Like, life? Getting sick? Old? The Creeping

I never watch the news, but you know what I learned on the news? The fucking humanitarian aid, food and supplies, North Korea receives?  The North Korean people are told that these are tributes. To their Leader. Then, if they’re lucky, I guess they get to eat. I imagine the sun shines and the rice g

Is this like something you have to be? Or automatically become? And why are there these special, all-cringeworthy words for getting older? Why aren’t I the same person, in somewhat different form? More bouts with that chronic illness that periodically take me off to Other Land. You know, the one whe

“It’s like a tantrum,” Mayor Jean Quan said while showing the damage inside the building, which included a broken model of City Hall she estimated to be 100 years old. “They’re treating us like a playground.” via Occupy, Oakland blame each other for violence.

Verrry interesting. The slow tap tap of her heels … in all that silence. Just devastating. Depending on which video you see, her face is quite visible, and she seems to look out over that long line of students with some surprise—no threat. That there was no threat to her was palpable. That extraordi

Jobs had been teaching us to say goodbye to all that for decades — we just didn’t know it. … in these final years, when the auditorium lights in would go down and the crowd would go wild for Jobs, who increasingly greeted his followers and touted the latest neat, new thing even as he [...]

Should Google Tweak the News? asks the New York Times. Count me Horrified. Can the Times retract, even, the question?      ”Should Google play an editorial role in presenting readers with news?” That question was a matter of debate at Zeitgeist, a Google conference this week in Paradise Valley, Ariz

On Richard Brody’s New Yorker Blog, the DVD of the Week is that fave, that treasure, Terrence Malick’s Badlands. Brody writes: It’s a jolt to see “Badlands” again after having seen the new movie; what seems, in the earlier film, to have been mere hints, adornments, and suggestions—background gleams,

What is important to understand is that these same messages about how awful the latest version of Mac OS X is appear each and every time there’s a new upgrade. Thomas Reed, Apple Discussions An Apple user since 1992, and OS X since Jaguar—I strongly disagree. Lion is different in kind from all versi