16 Jan 2007, 8:21 a.m.

Bad Relationship

Established doctors' offices face new competition from quick clinics at drugstores & big-box stores that dispense flu shots, etc. Unlike the RIAA, physicians don't try to legislate new competition out of existence, but argue on …

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15 Jan 2007, 16:23 p.m.

Viscount Walbrook

This week: classes at Columbia start, but I'm still hitting the Bluestockings reading on Tuesday of She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff and the Thursday opening of Mike …

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14 Jan 2007, 9:11 a.m.

MC Masala on Sorkin, Fannishness, and Salad

My column this week has some reminiscing and some meditation on entertainment. I thought I was a fan, even fanatical. But it turns out that Sorkin's work doesn't actually reward deep fannishness. "Star Trek," like …

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12 Jan 2007, 7:39 a.m.

Slap in the Face

The first post that popped up in my RSS reader this morning: Scott Rosenberg's "Bush exercises the Cambodia option in Iraq". As of yesterday the Bush administration has definitively moved from the phase of "let's …

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09 Jan 2007, 21:59 p.m.

Discoveries

I've used the phrase "the cult of authenticity" many times; I didn't realize that I didn't make it up. Vikram Chandra did, in a long and interesting piece from seven years ago in the Boston …

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09 Jan 2007, 19:22 p.m.

MC Masala on Melancholy/New Year's

Sunsets, darkness, etc. Good sunrises remind me of melted Popsicles, pink and liquid and sweet. The sunsets that bathe my office at 4:30 in the afternoon have nothing sweet about them. I'm too far from …

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08 Jan 2007, 19:05 p.m.

Horrifying Realizations

Are you ever just doing something inane, like websurfing or vomiting or trying to get a DVD player to recognize a disc, when you find yourself thinking of some mediocre, forgettable movie from ten years …

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08 Jan 2007, 13:30 p.m.

Ill

Sore throat. Leonard is feeding me herbal tea and Sickbed Soup. I'm watching Sports Night and honestly thinking about buying Kenny Byerly's book.

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06 Jan 2007, 8:38 a.m.

Discovery

Llewellyn Hinkes is John Darnielle!

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05 Jan 2007, 20:34 p.m.

Hal's Torments

Is it okay to read "Strawberry Marshmallow"?

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