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I liked The 25th Hour in almost exactly the same way I liked the movie, and almost exactly as much. It's billed as "crime fiction", and there are criminals in it, but it's not much about crime, and it's not primarily suspenseful (especially if you've seen the movie). Instead it's about friendship and loyalty and fate and loss and time. And New York. Pretty great.

Via shetterly: Science vs. Norse Mythology. How to change the world. World on Fire.

Digby on anti-abortion/anti-contraception/anti-sex activism (and here), and quoting Lance Mannion on sin and civilization.

Via James Wolcott, Gretchen Craft Rubin's Happiness Project. And elsewhere, a new surgical treatment for depression.

Our friends Bev and Greg stumbled upon the last Tin Cat show at Blue Rock Shoot, and Greg was so excited by it he wrote a concert review. Thanks, Greg! Our next show is tonight at Johnny V's, with a couple of terrific alt-country bands.

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[suprstaticwoman.livejournal.com]

Nice review.

Did you know that if you go to that review, then click on the link of your name, then accidentally click the link to listen to "I Am Tempted" (while the computer is muted), then click on the link for Tin Cat's myspace and click to listen to "Losing Streak" to see how it differs from the solo version, then remember to turn on the sound, that the computer plays both songs simultaneously?

Hypothetically speaking, of course.

And because I didn't realize I'd clicked on the first song, I just thought it was a somewhat strange rendition of Losing Streak--one that focused more on ... well, the music and lyrics for I Am Tempted, with Losing Streak sneaking through here and there, like in Jessie's China Girl.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

It'd be cooler if you'd managed to listen to two versions of "Losing Streak" at once.