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March 22, 2010
David Suchet narrates: God's Wonderful Surprise!
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March 21, 2010
are you reading?
via NYTRead this very cool article by Michael Winerip in his Generation B column this w/e about the power of reading and being read to: and an amazing Father-Daughter bond via books.
oh dear. sound dry? it isn't. the dad is a school librarian (for 38 years) and read to his daughter since she was tiny right up to (wait for it) college. OK so reading that back now sounds creepy but it isn't. really. it's very cool. but don't take my word for it, read it here.
Here's something the dad...
March 19, 2010
what's in your pocket? purse? handbag?
via LENS blog NYT
via Francois Roberts' "Contents"--a collection of photographs documenting the contents of 120 people's backpacks, pants, pockets, purses, handbags...
Of course he forgot to ask The Handbag Friends what ought to be in a handbag... (clue it's not keys and lipstick) and I don't see Clasp anywhere. But now is as good a time as any to sing The Handbag Song--won't you join me? Sing along, ready, steady, ... sing!
</object>what's in YOUR handbag?
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March 16, 2010
Vid #21: David Suchet narrates... He's Here!
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March 15, 2010
what is a poem?
An interviewer asked the poet, Annie Finch, how she would explain to a seven-year-old what a poem was, and she said:"A poem is words that fit together in a special way so it's easy to remember and it sounds like magic."
such the perfect description of a poem.
plus, it kind of is one, too.
Annie Finch, born 1956 in New Rochelle, New York. Her newest book of poetry is Calendars (2003).
March 12, 2010
change your life: the movie
via my (brilliant) friend Susan (she's the one in the kitchen) Isaacs is in it So funny!more here
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March 11, 2010
video: JSB #20 The Party
(no need to add a code, just hit ENTER and it'll play)
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March 10, 2010
March 9, 2010
Blessed Assurance
Phoebe Knapp. She wrote the tune to "Blessed Assurance" (among more than 500 other hymns). She was born in New York 1839.
And did you know… one day in 1873, Knapp was having a pipe organ set up in her house when a fellow John Street Methodist Episcopal Church parishioner, a blind woman 20 years older than she was, came over for a visit. Knapp sat down at the piano to play the woman a...
March 8, 2010
octopus love story
a cool short (last year, oscar nominated)an octopus is determined to save the love of his life... via Oktapodi 
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