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Murakami’s Norwegian Wood: Death, Winter, and Love

April 3, 2021April 21, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers I first read Haruki Murakami’s ‘Norwegian Wood’ when I was 17, in my first relationship. As it happened, it was my first foray into Japanese literature, […]

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Tips For Better Conversations From Celeste Headlee

December 5, 2020May 7, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Carl Kruse Apologies for the click-baity title though no click bait here only notes from a Celeste Headlee TED talk in Savannah, Georgia on how to have better conversations. […]

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On Walking or Psychogeography

November 19, 2020November 19, 2020 Carl Kruse

by Fraser Hibbitt I started walking because there was nothing else to do. Walking, I had found, was one way to disperse those sobering complaints of everyday tasks, leaving blind, […]

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Music, Memory and the Cloud

November 9, 2020July 9, 2021 Carl Kruse

by Hazel Anna Rogers My father will often, upon hearing a song from his youth, be able to conjure up when exactly in his life he first heard the song […]

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Happy Birthday Bitcoin

October 30, 2020May 7, 2022 Carl Kruse

by Carl Kruse Twelve years ago some guy (or group of people, nobody knows) called Satoshi Nakamoto, published an 8-page white paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” giving […]

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How To Name Your Band

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 Carl Kruse

by Carl Kruse So you have put together a band but no idea what to call it. You also are uncertain what to name your new album. Nor are you […]

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Poems by Otho Campbell

August 30, 2020August 30, 2020 Carl Kruse

Here are some poems from my friend Otho Campbell. As he did not title them, I follow the way Emily Dickinson poems are labelled, which is to say by the […]

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Divine Twitter Admin Accounts

July 16, 2020May 7, 2022 Carl Kruse

By Carl Kruse Several Twitter admin accounts were recently compromised allowing a hacker to modify other accounts (see here), bringing even Jeffery Epstein’s Twitter account alive again to say, “I […]

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Of Statues and Monuments

June 9, 2020December 8, 2020 Carl Kruse

By Carl Kruse A focal point of the city of Richmond, Virginia is a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Lee was by all accounts a brave, intelligent man, […]

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Buy Bitcoin

May 8, 2020September 11, 2022 Carl Kruse

By Carl Kruse Editorial Note: Bitcoin is a relatively new technology, on the frontier of knowledge and practice.  Bitcoin is volatile, risky, experimental.  It could go to zero. The Carl […]

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Laethanta na Riabhaiche – The Borrowed Days

April 5, 2020April 5, 2020 Carl Kruse

During these first days of April snow falls outside making it easier to stay inside in the time of coronavirus.  Another April some time ago, while perusing Richard MacFarlane’s Twitter […]

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Happy Anniversary JRR and Edith Tolkien

March 22, 2020November 16, 2020 Carl Kruse

By Carl Kruse Happy anniversary J.R.R. and Edith Tolkien, married on this day in 1916. Tolkien met Edith as a teenager and supposedly became so smitten with her he neglected […]

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