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It’s December, which is about as good a time as any to reflect on the year gone by and preflect on the year to come. As we did last year, I will separate out the myriad activities/productions that make up the Balckwell Online Entity, and for each one, tell you what’s been going on, as…
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The other day as I was walking around the park, admiring the mist rising from the lake in the early sunlight, I sent a text to my friend that read, “the only truly meaningful activity in life is just walking around.” A few minutes later, I received a reply in which he said that he…
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I got a part-time job recently. When I applied for the job, I wasn’t sure what sort of job it was. When I got hired, I still wasn’t entirely sure what it was I’d be doing. I’ve been doing this job for two months now. I would like to tell you three things about my…
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Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine, was edited by Refaat Alareer, and published by Just World Books, a publisher that has put out a great deal of books about the Middle East and about Palestine and Israel, including history books, biographies, works of fiction like this one, and even a…
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People are often bewildered by my ability to let things slip my mind. For several months last year, I was planning to take a few odds-and-ends to the recycling depot. Every time someone came to my house and pointed at the pile, I would say, “Oh yeah, I’m going to take them to the recycling…
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I would like to talk to you today about an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation I watched recently. In the episode, the crew of the USS Enterprise are investigating a scientific base that was abandoned eight years prior due to something called a “disruption field,” that prevented anyone from being beamed on or…
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Twister is a 1996 blockbuster film directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written by Michael Crichton, which information tells you essentially all you need to know about the movie Twister. It’s a 90s blockbuster, which means its about natural disasters. It’s directed by Steven Spielberg, so you know it features two characters with a complicated relationship that becomes…
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I don’t really have anything to say at the moment. A few ideas have been circulating about in my head recently, but I don’t feel particularly compelled to share them in their current state. They’re all a little thin, and not yet fully thought out. With all the smoke and the heat, combined with the…
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Next month, I am returning to Japan for the first time in eight years. During the entire planning phase for this trip, I have been deliberately not having feelings about this. When I have feelings, I can’t plan things. Now that the planning is complete, I am allowing myself to have feelings about this. I…
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