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Sunday diversion / a sports guy goes schizo on a local team

… and writes today’s Quote Of The Day, thusly: J-E-T-S? Really? You’re thrilled with yourselves for spelling a four-letter word? Try cheering for Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. I’m rooting for them today (boo Ben boo!), but this made

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his birthday was Saturday, but his Day is today

do you prefer video or text?video is here (17 minutes, via YouTube) text is here © Sandy Mattingly 2011  

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weekend diversion: what to make of the Amazing Strangers of Union Square?

anthropology or voyeurism?This has been sitting on my virtual pile of interesting because it is weird or interesting because it is disturbing? for six weeks, and I have never been able to figure out which it is, or what it

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one one one one

  Owl’ed Langed + Signed, indeedPlease take a minute to read this from Peggy Noonan (of all people!) h/t The Daily Dish (AS still in absentia)‘nuff said … Enjoy! © Sandy Mattingly 2011  

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holiday diversion: national politics edition

Is this the dumbest political story of the entire year, or merely the one that made me laugh hardest? © Sandy Mattingly 2010  

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merry Christmas to all who observe

if not, come back tomorrowReading Wiki today about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, moved in part by memory of his famous letter to his parents from his Nazi prison cell December 17, 1943 (Maria is his fiancee) that has been part of my

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Sunday diversion: Sullivan channels Posnanski about … movies?

… without once mentioning baseballI guess I should stop being surprised by the breadth of Andrew Sullivan’s musings about the world as-is and as-it-should-be. Perhaps he surprised for the last time me last week when he (one of my favorite

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Saturday diversion / is The Force with you?

fonts! glorious fonts!Isn’t it amazing what Kids are doing today: http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/may-the-force-of-typography-be-with-you h/t (as is often the case) a terrific baseball writer © Sandy Mattingly 2010  

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Sunday diversion: children's rhymes + songs

your favorite?Some clever woman with a lot of time on her hands researched nursery rhymes and silly songs from her (and my) childhood, finding some odd verses, some downright disturbing verses. My personal favorite is #5, which proves to me

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Saturday diversion: who is THAT guy?

a pre-Halloween ghoul[oops! posted it without the title; now fixed]Today’s hat tip goes to NY1’s Pat Kiernan, who was on my TV early Wednesday morning with a story about a painted portrait. I may have been watching while standing in

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