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10DMC #day2: Wait until dark

02.08.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Audrey Hepburn holds up a match in the darkness in Wait Until Dark

I think a week or so of lost sleep counts as “impact,” no?

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10DMC #day1: For your eyes only

02.07.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Movie poster from For Your Eyes Only

Without a single explanation? Nice try.

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The wall

01.29.2019 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

I’ve wanted to do this since I was a teenager.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // album covers, art, music

stimied

12.06.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

stimied (stahy-meed), v., past part. prevented from achieving one’s goal or or purpose due to constraints in the time available for the necessary tasks. Ex.: The end of every semester.

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Handling the hypocrats

11.26.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Hypocracy def, highlighted "rule by hypocrites"

The news media is in crisis.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // ezra klein, george lakoff, jay rosen, journalism, press, wWhitney phillips

cornycopia

11.22.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

cornycopia (kawr-nee-koh-pee-uh), n. an inexhaustible, if exhausting, supply of old-fashioned, worn-out, and groan-inducing puns, one-liners, knock-knock jokes, riddles, bad jokes, etc., most often perpetrated by fathers at Thanksgiving dinners across America.

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A blesséd silence: My new (used) Sony headphones

11.19.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Decorative - silhouette meditator with headphones

I’d heard of this magic, this “noise cancellation,” but I’d dismissed it pretty much out of hand.  That’s pretty odd for me, given my deeply held faith in technology, especially tech connected to the the dark arts of audio. You’d think I’d have known better.

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hypocracy

11.15.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

hypocracy (hi-pok-ruh-see), n. a system of government in which power is vested in officials who feign virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, integrity, etc.; rule by hypocrites. Ex.: “Sen. Mitch McConnell: Will Dems work with us, or simply put partisan politics ahead of the country?”

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What I’m reading (audio):
Lee Child’s Past Tense

11.12.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Steve Martin in The Jerk, with the new phone book

The new Jack Reacher is here! The new Jack Reacher is here!

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decemble

11.08.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

decemble (dih-sem-buhl), v. to disguise or conceal commercial motives behind a false or misleading appearance of Christmas cheer. Ex: Stores that erect Christmas displays the day after Halloween.

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