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  1. Wild stuff. Victorian parlor games gone wild. RT @Danchaon:My favorite music video of the year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga0ohgZFVqc
  2. Is there anything finer in music than when the Countess grants the Count forgiveness in Figaro? (1st visit to Met last Monday) #opera
  3. The way to Narnia is not through the back of a wardrobe. It's through the back of the dryer. The socks are having tea with Mr. Tumnus.
  4. They're with the socks. @magiciansbook Where do all my pens go? I regard this as one of life's bona fide mysteries.
  5. RT@alaindebotton Great German word: Torschlusspanik - fear of the door shutting, of options and time running out: http://tinyurl.com/yfqu3dk
  6. I know hapless (it just walked into my yard unable to control its two dogs). But what's it's opposite? Hapful? With hap?
  7. Fantastic. Where my twin obsessions with perfume and books meet. An electronic nose that sniffs out fragile volumes. http://s.nyt.com/u/CWc
  8. NYT on cultural property repatriation issues, makes no mention of Parthenon Marbles except "looted" Gk antiquities. http://s.nyt.com/u/CW=
  9. Interesting that kindle tv ad draws on film, theater, music, painting--and there's not a word in sight.
  10. Which was my awk way of saying the anti-expert thing happens in media, culture, etc now. Sometimes for the good. Smtms not.
  11. @gripemaster Which was my awk way of saying the anti-expert thing happens in media, culture, etc now. Sometimes for the good. Smtms not.
  12. @gripemaster But not just politics. Reality television often shows an expert making over hoi polloi but the whole thing's created by casts.
  13. (Kakutani cont.). . and just how thoroughly colorful personal narratives overshadow policy arguments and actual knowledge."
  14. Kakutani on Palin's selection: "underscores just how alarmingly expertise is discounted. . . in our increasingly democratized era. . .
  15. On Fringe: "Don't be ridiculous. You were abducted. Of course you need crepes."
  16. @carynjames Brits anti Pirate Radio?Tall Poppy syndrome (and abiding envy of Ken Branagh?
  17. @alaindebotton Καλό ταξίδι!
  18. Don't take away our stories! New study: dreams simply brain's tune-up before waking. Devoid of meaningful content. http://bit.ly/pp7xe
  19. Such a sweet film! #EightiesEngland RT I am just watching Starter For Ten. It would make a great book. (via @missdaisyfrost)
  20. Paraphrasing from NYT on Heidegger's Nazism: can significant ideas be distilled from vile ones? http://s.nyt.com/u/DOh