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Singing It Now - Come on all of you big strong men Uncle Sam needs your help again He's got himself in a terrible jam Way down yonder in I-ran So put down your books...
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Coming Soon? Star Trek: In Name Only - "Could Star Trek be dying?" Those were the opening words of my New York Times article in 2004. At that time, as in some previous moments, the threat ...
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Is the Story of Sports the Story of Injuries? - A lot has happened to the teams I follow in just a few weeks. The Pittsburgh Steelers were ignominiously defeated by the Houston Oilers in their wild ca...2 months ago
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Jonathan Miller - Of all the people I didn't know who died in 2019, I was most saddened by the death of Jonathan Miller. He was an important presence at various times in ...
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Turning 72: I Dwell in Possibility - This blog hasn't been active in awhile, but I did post on significant birthdays here: turning 60 and turning 65. Now I've gone past the 60s. So although ...
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Early Warning - Jeff Masters at Weather Underground unearthed this brief video excerpt from a Bell Laboratory Science series episode in 1958, that includes a mention of ...
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R.I.P. Ada Louise - I never met Ada Louise Huxtable, though for a brief period we were both writing for the New York Times. She even quoted me in one of her books, and I certa...
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Hi. How are yunz guys? Yea, I lived in Pittsburgh for awhile.
Great sunset photo's! Thanks.
I do have a prickly question though...Just how does one "become native to" the North Coast when you're not native to it? I'm from San Francisco and lived in Fort Bragg for ten years and now here in Eureka for two and I still haven't figured it out. Of course, I'm kidding. I am happy as a clam to be a transplant from the Bay Area.
I lived all over Pittsburgh for about three years. My wife went to CMU.
Hi Doc--I'm heading back to the burgh for a visit in June. My partner Margaret is a CMU dramat, also taught there for a bit. I lived on the South Side and then Squirrel Hill when I returned to the area. I do run into transplants now and again--or at least Steeler fans!
This blog started out being about the process of becoming "native" to this place, using the Jackson book (Becoming Native to This Place) as a starting point. It's a paradox of course, but alot of us are transplants in our lives. So I started with the actual Natives to this place. A lot of the early research I did I archived at North Coast Texts.
Since then my posting has been more haphazard than I'd like, but I guess the answer is that becoming native to a place is a process that doesn't end, and it's a different process for everyone.
Thanks for stopping by...
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