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Travis Baldree has done it again! The third book in the cozy fantasy world of Legends & Lattes is Brigands & Breadknives, and it may just be my favorite of the three. No pressure, Travis; if this is all we get, that’s more than enough!
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While today’s browser wars are more about privacy, operating systems, and online integrations and ecosystems, that’s not the way it started.
I remember getting online early with Gopher and whatever Prodigy’s built-in browser equivalent was. I then moved on to Mosaic, Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, and eventually the first Mozilla.
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While it is uniquely and overtly Jewish in the details of the story, Chaim Potok’s The Chosen is also about growing up in a house with a doctrine that is similar to your friend’s but not the same.
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It’s hard to believe that there’s someone out there who hasn’t heard some version of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.” My cursory research revealed almost 100 official covers of the song and I believe that to be soft.
But GNR’s version along with Warren Zevon’s edition got me thinking about what else is out there. I’m not talking about Dylan’s own preoccupation with playing his own songs at different tempos and phrasings live, never performing the same things twice. After all, that could be its own thing for almost anything Dylan sang.
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As someone who has, at this point, read almost every easily accessible published work of Douglas Coupland, this book is something of a crescendo.
“Bit Rot” is shorts and essays, from some things I have read and many that are new to me. But it is the crux of the book’s essence that’s amazing to experience.
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