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The Song of the Earth
by Hugh Nissenson
Hardback $24.95
2001 Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill. This truely a strange and evocative book. It is stylistically innovative and imaginative. The story is of a young Artist who is the worlds first genetically engineered manual artist. The time is the first half of the twentyfirst century, a time when almost all art is computer generated. He is murdered at the age of twenty one and the novel is the transcript of a retrospective art show of his life and works. It is comprised of clippings and interviews and drawings and remembrances of his life from a large number of sources that at first glance appear to be jumbled together in no particular order except for being broadly in sequence. The style is a bit off putting at first but I found myself getting a much more intimate and, perhaps real view of his life than I would have from a more ordinary style.
If this is an accurate portrayal of our next fifty some years then I think we are in trouble. I guess what is most depressing about the book is that I suspect it may be quit accurate, even prophetic. Ah well.
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Second to Last Place I'd Look

This evening (or more correctly last evening since you'll be reading this tomorrow after I've posted it) I asked myself the following question:

What website would I and perhaps many of my readers be quite unlikely to find during the normal course of their life?

For me the answer would be a website devoted to "Golf Records". Apart from one strange summer spent working as a grounds keeper on a military base golf course I know little about golf. And if I were inclined toward the sport the generals and bird colonels certainly drained any vestige of such interest from my veins. Hence, it was indeed not likely that I would normally find myself at a website devoted to Golf Records.

Proceeding to my favorite search engine, my first hit was a very strange record company -- Golf Records. Moving right past this enigmatic music company, I noticed a website which seemed most unlikely for me to encounter. In fact, I doubt many golfers would encounter this website -- thus fitting the criterion of my question so nicely emblazoned in bold-italic above. This website was (and still is) Jesuit Athletics Golf Records.

Silly me, I hadn't even dreamed that Jesuits paid any particular attention to golf. I just never made the natural extrapolation from a few jokes involving the Pope, Jesus, and God on the golf course to Jesuit Golf.

Well, there you have it. A fine example of something sitting right there in front of your face without the smallest possibility of being noticed.

Today's Funny -- courtesy BardoTown Comics

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