Kafkaesque Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. When I was a senior in high school, some friends and I had a campus club that, among other wholesome activities, held a Franz Kafka Lookalike contest. I won, though the results were always a bit suspect. (We had no picture of Kafka, and thus had no idea what he …
Bryan Patterson, whose struggle to recover from brain injury my colleague Jim Belshaw chronicled in the Albuquerque Journal, graduated from UNM today with a masters degree in public health, and Jim was there to enjoy the moment: I had an aisle seat and I could see him when he made the turn into the aisle. …
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I have the opportunity to visit the old European city of Stockholm later this month for an interesting workshop (more on this later) and I’ve managed to build in a few extra days to play. Any suggestions on things to see?
It was a sunny Sunday afternoon in August, 1990, that Lissa and I saw our first baseball game in Albuquerque. We had flown in on an apartment-hunting trip before our move, and once we had things nailed down, we headed out to the ballpark to catch a game. We both grew up in LA, as …
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I was happy to learn that, now that Albuquerque’s AAA ballclub is the Dodger’s, we’ll get Vin Scully on local radio. Here’s a bit of his poetry: One and 1 to Harvey Kuenn. Now he’s ready: fastball, high, ball 2. You can’t blame a man for pushing just a little bit now. Sandy backs off, …
Joshua Cooper Ramo’s got some great schtick his new book about Picasso that has me pondering again the remarkable intellectual trajectory that leads from the raw innovation of Les Demoiselles to the crisp completion of the thought in Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase. Lots of cubism after that point, but in some sense the space …
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This is not an April fool’s joke.
On Joshua Cooper Ramo’s Age of the Unthinkable: Instead of tanks and planes and armed battalions, we face “adaptive microthreats and ideas,” like improvised explosive devices made of cheap cell-phone components. Because of such thinking, Ramo writes, “no major power has been able to defeat an insurgency anywhere in the world” since World War II. …
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