something there is that doesn't love a wall

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Fountains of Wayne on the cover of the Sunday Styles section. Apparently, like Kris Delmhorst, Chris Lightcap, Stephen Sondheim, and me, they went to Williams.

The Sandhills and western Nebraska. Carhenge, the Dismal River, and hours and hours of prairie grass.

Gary Giddins on "The Bob Hope We Should Remember".

A reminder that Frost situated the adage "Good fences make good neighbors" in a context that called it into question. Here's the full text of "Mending Wall", which the Times doesn't provide.

African-American skepticism about U.S. intervention in Liberia and elsewhere.

A sick-making article on new trends in nuclear weapons. "Relatively small" ones range "from a fraction the size of the Hiroshima bomb to several times as large".

Why it's hard to tell an energy program from a weapons program. You know, in Iran.

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[randomchef.livejournal.com]

one of my oldest CTY friends goes to williams, too. :)

and i saw kris tonight at passim (with mark erelli, rachael davis, and jake armerding), and she rocked as usual. *sigh* gotta love the kris. :)

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The world remains small. I went to a small party a few months ago--about a dozen people, at its height--hosted by Russell (once again, Barber, not Wolff), my guitarist friend. About two hours into it another friend of the hosts said to me, "You look familiar--did you go to Williams?"

I said that I had, we exchanged dates and majors, and that was about it. What most surprised everyone else at the party was how unsurprised we were by it. But, I don't know, I think at this point we've just sort of come to expect that once in a while we'll run into someone we saw around campus but didn't really know. Or run into our first-year roommate at a book festival in New York City.

I don't remember if I've posted my small-world Kris story here, but I think you'd be entertained.