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...distant future I’d have to get a job that, unless I became a teacher like my parents, would involve a sprinkled dribble of vacation days. Not enough time to circle the country, like my mother had, or to traverse a continent across the sea, the act my father had repeated for so many summers...
...California on some hilltops you can see clear to New York. I asked an old Mexican woman with a shopping cart where the water was. She said Superior. I thought that meant better: better than home, yes, I said. Really it was the name of the street to the sea. Sitting on a beach in Summerland, California, I thought about seasons, remembering, oceans, glory...
...most interesting songs on “Romance is Boring” or not is up for debate, but singles “There Are Listed Buildings” and “Romance is Boring,” as well as blogosphere hit “The Sea is a Good Place To Think of the Future” show the band haven’t lost their touch for delightfully edgy pop songs. The title track in particular will be causing plenty of lost voices at Campesinos! concerts with its rollicking, gleefully tongue-in-cheek chorus...
...River, Big Sea: 1949 This is Lung Ying-tai's new book about the year the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan. There's no winner in the war; everybody fails. Unearthed historical facts force me to look at new angles and realign myself...
...premature release of the communiqué by German officials before the daylong conference even broke for a lunch of goat's cheese and sea bass underlined how little would be decided at the conference itself. And the document's boilerplate contents revealed the limits on what had been agreed in the detailed negotiations that preceded Thursday's summit. (See video of the war in Afghanistan up close...