A Building Roam

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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

"Keeper of My Soul" by Yesterday's New Quintet

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Somebody put together a great video for this track by YNQ (otherwise known as Madlib pretending to be a jazz quintet all by himself). It d...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The Ides of August

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Irene knocks down a tree in Central Park (Mario Tama/Getty Images) This was initially supposed to be written at the end of July or beg...
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Sunday, August 28, 2011

"Teems of times and happy returns"

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After finally completing that big list about James Joyce in the last post , I wanted to let it simmer atop the page for a while. I didn...
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Monday, August 1, 2011

16 Reasons Why James Joyce is the Greatest Writer Ever

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I actually started to write this over a year ago and now it's finally complete. It was originally intended to be posted on June 16 ...
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Sublime Poetry

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A recent piece in The Guardian by Carol Birch provides a short but beautifully accurate summation of the art of James Joyce, particularly F...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

The Beltran Era

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His final game in a Mets uniform was a typical Carlos Beltran performance. Two walks, a single, an RBI, and 3 runs scored. He went out in pe...
Friday, July 29, 2011

The Wave that Washed Your Meals Away

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The excitement of the 2011 major league baseball season suddenly burst into supernova recently. It all began late Tuesday night in Atlanta. ...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Some words for Winehouse

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Saturday morning I had to get up very early, around 6 AM, to drive my girlfriend to work. Bursting out of sleep and into consciousness so ea...
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Sunday, July 24, 2011

"Thought Through My Eyes": Epilogue, Part 3 (Expansive Bibliography)

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To finally close out this treatise, I would like to share thoughts on some of the books used in the research process. The Secret Life of S...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

The McLuhan Centennial

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Today is the 100th birthday of the great influential thinker Marshall McLuhan. McLuhan died back in 1980 but his influence has exploded ove...
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

"Thought Through My Eyes": Epilogue, Part 2

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"If you like the epilogue look long on it" - Ulysses , pg 213 One of the important facets of my paper that I really didn't...
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NYC native, nomadic world traveler, food-for-thought gourmand, baseball fanatic, hip hop head, heavy reader, James Joyce enthusiast. "A Building Roam" is my vehicle for writing about all of these and more. Leave a comment or email me here.
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