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Marginalia: a blog

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Marginalia: a blog

Things we could learn from our dogs …

It’s that time of the year when remembering things to be grateful for is on many minds. This one is out of the archives – I published it 2 years ago – but it remains relevant. It popped up in the list of just-read posts on my blog this morning. Here it is I almost

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Goodnight Broadway: 2010

Listen! My last night in NYC in 2010. After a week in the city walking mostly the theatre district around Broadway, I decided to take in one last show, the Tony Award winning NEXT TO NORMAL. The gracious Marin Mazzie, who played the lead, came to the stage door and spoke with the audience for

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Modern Woman – 50 Years On

A little b&w hommage to that scene in Breakfast At Tiffany’s, the first in the film and shot 50 years ago next month outside the iconic 5th Avenue store. Not a croissant as Holly had, but a doughnut – the lust object a very special handbag.

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Peace and Progress at Ground Zero

Just occasionally, the gods of Posterous let one go by. Thus it has been with a podcast I did from Ground Zero yesterday. Perhaps it’s not Posterous but the Audioboo gods that slipped up, as the boo I recorded yesterday didn’t make it here. So, dear reader, here’s the link to the boo which the

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