Video directed by Derek Burbridge. Shot on location in London, England, inside and near the Lyceum Theatre.
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Monthly Archives: June 2024
Midday Music Fix
The original iPhone
turns 17 today
Annie Jacobsen was born
on this day in 1967
Annie Jacobsen — the American writer — was born on June 28, 1967 in Middletown, Connecticut.
She is the author of a number of aclaimed books including Operation Paperclip, Area 51, The Pentagon’s Brain, and Nuclear War: A Scenario.
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E. J. Ourso College of Business
founded on this day in 1928
The E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University was founded on this day – June 11, 1928.
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Sex cannot be separated from the malignancy of the social structures that surround it.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times
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Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge.
~ Thomas Sowell
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When one has once accepted and absorbed evil, it no longer demands to be believed.
~ Franz Kafka
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The iPhone 4
turns 14 today
The first GSM model of the iPhone 4 was released today – June 24 – in 2010.
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The compulsive overachievement of today’s elite college students – the sense that they need to keep running as fast as they can – is not the only thing that keeps them from forming the deeper relationships that might relieve their anguish. Something more insidious is operating, too: a resistance to vulnerability, a fear of looking like the only one who isn’t capable of handling the pressure.
~ William Deresiewicz
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A politician’s words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
~ George Will
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