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The 2015 Philadelphia Flower Show
Gone to flowers, everyone
The theme of this year’s Philadelphia Flower Show is “the movies,” although the organizers are being somewhat disingenuous in that only Disney movies are included. The Disney-only focus allows for marvelous flights of fancy but limits the emotional range, and emotional maturity, of the entries.
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Will the real Dark Knight please stand up?
The League of Arch Villains Who Think Batman Sucks reach a surprising conclusion at their monthly meeting.
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Iraqi Sniper
Suppose there was somehow a viable movie industry in the shambles that is Iraq. Suppose a movie was made there called Iraqi Sniper. What would it be like?
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Trouble in paradise
There we were, reading an 18th-century poem on a smartphone while driving an electric car past lava tubes that, two million years ago, bubbled with volcano guts. Suddenly, time felt not like a continuum, but more like a pleated fabric, the long-ago pressed hotly against the now.
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Heidegger and the Super Bowl
Thinking football
It might be possible to argue that Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is the Heidegger of football, if anyone could actually figure out what Belichick is thinking.
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The age of mothers
In the weeks after losing her mother, the author explores a pair of historic Philadelphia cemeteries.
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"Justice" for Joe Paterno?
It was fair to reverse the disqualification of current players from bowl game eligibility: They played no part in the Sandusky scandal. It wasn’t fair to reverse the change in Paterno’s numbers: That was only a slap on the wrist for a powerful man who otherwise escaped punishment for the terrible things that happened on his watch.
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Thoughts on aging
What lasts
The older I get, the more I realize that the “me” who looks out through my eyes has traits that have nothing to do with chronology. I may look ridiculous if I invest too heavily in the media version of beauty, but inner beauty is something I can take with me to my grave, even as the inevitable decline of the rest of me hastens on.
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An alma mater's fundraising appeal
A walk down memory lane — too bad it wasn’t mine
My high school begs for money; this year, they decided to remind me (as if I needed reminding) of why I’m glad high school is over.
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'Charlie Hebdo' and other bad news
News at 11
We are all people. We all share this planet and this trip. I do not know how to stop us from killing one another, but I have an idea about how to stop in those being terrorized the desire to bust down other people’s doors in retaliation.
