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    iTunes favorites
    I keep one playlist on iTunes just for my favorite songs of the moment. Here's what's on the list now:

    The Allman Brothers Band
       "Dreams"
    Charles Mingus
       "E's Flat Ah's Flat Too"
    Cream
       "White Room"
    Creedence Clearwater Revival
       "Fortunate Son"
    Curtis Mayfield
       "Move On Up"
    Dennis Coffey
       "Scorpio"
    Elastica
       "In The City"
    Frank Morey
       "Uncle Lefty's Lament"
    Gogol Bordello
       "Start Wearing Purple"
    Grateful Dead
       "Franklin's Tower"
    The Isley Brothers
       "Work To Do"
    Jennifer Convertibles
       "Speedracer"
    Johnny Cash
       "The Man Who Couldn't Cry"
    Les Negresses Vertes
       "Marcelle Ratafia"
    Locket
       "Dead Pet"
    Mano Negra
       "King Of Bongo"
    Mano Negra
       "Ronde De Nuit"
    Randy Newman
       "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)"
    Solomon Burke
       "Baby (I Wanna Be Loved)"
    Solomon Burke
       "It's Been A Change"
    Stevie Wonder
       "Uptight (Everything's Alright)"
    Stevie Wonder
       "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"
    The Temptations
       "Cloud Nine"
    Tom Waits
       "The Piano Has Been Drinking"
    Tommy James & The Shondells
       "Draggin' The Line"
    X
       "Nausea"

    (October 3, 2005)


    Film links
    Some of my favorite film-review links, some very offbeat but all good:

    David N. Butterworth — La Movie Boeuf
    Bright Lights Film
    Weird Professor Type
    Reconstructed Bellybutton
    Pablo Hernandez — Film Essential
    Pajiba
    The Flick Philosopher

    Stuff to read
    American:
    Christian Science Monitor
    New Republic
    Newsday
    New York Observer
    New York Post
    New York Times
    Washington Post
    Amsterdam News
    The Onion
    UK:
    The Guardian
    The Independent
    The Scotsman
    BBC
    French:
    Le Figaro
    Libération
    Le Monde
    German:
    Frankfurter Algemeine
    Süddeutsche Zeitung
    Die Welt
    Die Zeit
    Canadian:
    Globe and Mail
    Mexican:
    La Jornada
    Magazines:
    Atlantic Monthly
    New Yorker
    Washington Monthly
    Online:
    Salon
    Consortium News
    Slate
    Talking Points Memo
    Daily Kos
    Eschaton
    Specialized:
    Economists\' Voice
    History News Network
    National Security Archive

    Photo links
    DP Review
    Canon DSLR Challenge
    In-Public.com
    Streetphoto.fsnet.co.uk
    Jessica Tanzer
    PBase.com
    Photoethnography

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       Week of December 18, 2005
    PICTURES | Picture a week #6: Portland
    TRAVEL | Overheard in Seattle
    TRAVEL | Seattle
    RANDOM THOUGHTS | Blogger's block
    NEWS | Cheney in Iraq



       Week of November 20, 2005
    NEWS | Bush in Mongolia



       Week of April 3, 2005
    NEWS | Kneeling before the pope
    FILM | The Prince & Me



       Week of March 27, 2005
    NEW YORK | Port Authority
    PICTURES | Picture a week
    NEWS | Pope John Paul II
    TRAVEL | Airport security



       Week of March 6, 2005
    POLITICS | Holocaust rhetoric
    FOOD | Sciortino's pizza
    JOURNALISM | Misplaced modifiers



       Week of February 20, 2005
    NEW YORK | The Gates
    POLITICS | Attacking Iran
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    POLITICS | Social Security
    NEW YORK | New York traffic fatalities
    MEDIA/ADVERTISING | Achievments in advrtising
    MUSIC | Grammy Awards
    NEW YORK | Port of Authority



       Week of January 30, 2005
    PICTURES | Picture a week
    TRAVEL | Sisters in California
    TRAVEL | Santa Monica
    TRAVEL | My sister the pilot
    PICTURES | Picture a week
    TRAVEL | San Francisco
    WORK | Met the new boss!
    POLITICS | Social Security
    POLITICS | Cheney in Poland



       Week of January 9, 2005
    FILM | Film awards
    NEWS | Iraq war
    EVENTS OF THE DAY | Offoffoff reader comments



       Week of January 2, 2005
    FILM | Good movie reviews
    NEWS | News item
    PICTURES | Midtown photos
    FILM | Critics of the Times
    EVENTS OF THE DAY | Times Square New Year's Eve
    NEWS | Guantanamo detainees



       Week of December 26, 2004
    PICTURES | Picture a week
    FILM | 2004 film awards
    FILM | Top 10 films of 2004
    RANDOM THOUGHTS | Shopping



       Week of December 19, 2004
    RELIGION | Jews and Christmas
    TRAVEL | Coff coff off
    RADIO | NPR Morning Edition
    JOURNALISM | Copy editing 101



       Week of December 5, 2004
    NEWS | Donald Rumsfeld Q&A
    MUSIC | Do they know it's not Christmas?



       Week of November 28, 2004
    JOURNALISM | Palestinian elections
    RANDOM THOUGHTS | Dumbster



       Week of November 14, 2004
    TRAVEL | France trip
    POLITICS | Condoleezza Rice
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       Week of October 31, 2004
    POLITICS | Election 2004
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    POLITICS | Election 2004
    POLITICS | Election 2004



       Week of October 17, 2004
    POLITICS | Bush and Dred Scott
    SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY | Microsoft Reality
    WORK | Don't meet the new boss



       Week of October 10, 2004
    POLITICS | Bush's bulge
    NEWS | Indymedia server seizure
    POLITICS | Taxes



       Week of September 5, 2004
    NEW YORK | Sept. 11
    WORK | Don't meet the new boss
    NEWS | Hurricane Frances



       Week of August 29, 2004
    POLITICS | Ralph Peters
    NEW YORK | RNC closing night
    NEW YORK | Fox News protests
    NEW YORK | Republican convention protest
    NEW YORK | Republican convention protests
    NEW YORK | Republican convention protests
    NEW YORK | Republican convention protests



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    POLITICS | Jim McGreevey
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