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Tag: Culture

  • Now See Hear

    Photo by kyle smith on Unsplash Newsreaders are losing their senses If the content of the news weren’t crazy enough to keep me away from the nightly media scatshow, the failing language skills of the commentators is. They’ve forgotten the meanings of simple verbs like “listen” and “look.” “Take a listen” This is wrong. We can “take a…

  • Madcap Delinquent Prophet on a Scooter

    Photo by Marc Sendra Martorell on Unsplash On taking back your power My new electric scooter arrived last week, and I am already hopelessly in love with it. It’s the stand-up kind — I just step on with one foot, kick off with the other foot, and toggle a power switch that glides me forward. Wind in my hair……

  • Everything Old is New Again

    Time to tidy the world It always makes me glad to find a really good thrift store. For me, thrift shopping is a treasure hunt, a therapy session, a trivial defiance of consumerism and materialism, and a way to live beyond my actual means. I felt thoroughly vindicated when Macklemore’s song hit and made thrift shopping…