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My Bout With Malaria | Staccato Signals of Constant Information
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Staccato Signals of Constant Information. My Cutting Room Floor. What This Is About. Notes from a Sunny Boston. My Bout With Malaria. July 16, 2013. Rounds 2 through 6 of the fever were killers. I remember little of those two days. What I recall is this:. 8221; he inquired in the Togolese French that he normally spoke. “Ca va? 8221; he repeated. I turned my head momentarily and nodded an unconvincing “yes.” And then returned to focusing on the drain. The final thing I remember was the needle going into m...
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My Last Days of Disco | Staccato Signals of Constant Information
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Staccato Signals of Constant Information. My Cutting Room Floor. What This Is About. Reporting Mistakes, Recording Mistakes. La fiction pulpe de Gerard de Villiers →. My Last Days of Disco. December 4, 2012. And that was it. We were in. And it was a blast. It just felt like that bit in “Seinfeld” where George returns to the beautiful people club, but it’s evaporated. There’s no club. It was a mirage. Tennesee Williams and Marisa Berenson at 54. Yeah, it was like that. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Notify m...
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Reporting Mistakes, Recording Mistakes | Staccato Signals of Constant Information
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Staccato Signals of Constant Information. My Cutting Room Floor. What This Is About. Three Tales of the Leadership Crisis in Africa. My Last Days of Disco →. Reporting Mistakes, Recording Mistakes. December 3, 2012. I was Antoinette’s the late model white Jaguar, a camera on my lap, and the recorder’s display virtually screaming at me, “You idiot: where is your spare memory card? Why did you leave the other behind? Are you telling me Hobart is a monopoly? No other company makes this machine! You are comm...
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The Band Really Was on the Run: McCartney in Lagos | Staccato Signals of Constant Information
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Staccato Signals of Constant Information. My Cutting Room Floor. What This Is About. Peace Corps Days, Morocco, circa Chris Stevens. Honk 2012, Saturday, October 6, 2012 →. The Band Really Was on the Run: McCartney in Lagos. October 4, 2012. Bored with recording in the United Kingdom, they wanted to go to an exotic locale. After asking EMI to send him a listing of all their international recording studios, Paul happened upon Lagos in Nigeria and was instantly taken with the idea of recording in Africa.
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Grief | Staccato Signals of Constant Information
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Staccato Signals of Constant Information. My Cutting Room Floor. What This Is About. La fiction pulpe de Gerard de Villiers. Notes from a Sunny Boston →. Look at the pain in this woman’s face. It is hard to imagine the tragedy and shame that created this grief. Reuters photographer Mansi Thapliyal in New Delhi took this picture. And since I saw it a few days ago, I can’t get it – and all it signifies – out of my head. We may never know. But her face somehow says it all. These recent articles from Time.
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Notes from a Sunny Boston | Staccato Signals of Constant Information
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Staccato Signals of Constant Information. My Cutting Room Floor. What This Is About. My Bout With Malaria →. Notes from a Sunny Boston. April 28, 2013. Walking down Boylston Street, the scene opened with a surreal soundtrack. A man with an electric keyboard sat near the site of the second bomb, the Forum Restaurant. He played spacey and dirge-like synth music. A sign on his cash-bucket said it was smooth jazz. I know of former CRLS students from Djhokhar Tsarnaev’s class who remain in shock and disbelief...
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What This Is About | Staccato Signals of Constant Information
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Staccato Signals of Constant Information. My Cutting Room Floor. What This Is About. What This Is About. A writer friend in Zurich told me she didn’t like radio (and television) writing because it didn’t allow her to take tangents. I tend to agree. So that’s what this is: the tangents I’d often like to take on radio, but which time won’t allow. The stuff on my cutting room floor. One response to “ What This Is About. April 9, 2008 at 20:30. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Get every n...
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Staccato Signals of Constant Information | My Cutting Room Floor | Page 2
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Staccato Signals of Constant Information. My Cutting Room Floor. What This Is About. Newer posts →. Honk 2012, Saturday, October 6, 2012. October 6, 2012. It’s an annual festival of activist marching bands organized in Somerville, Massachusetts by the musicians. Music with something to say. Music that matters. It’s always great. The Band Really Was on the Run: McCartney in Lagos. October 4, 2012. Bored with recording in the United Kingdom, they wanted to go to an exotic locale. After asking EMI to se...
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La fiction pulpe de Gerard de Villiers | Staccato Signals of Constant Information
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Staccato Signals of Constant Information. My Cutting Room Floor. What This Is About. My Last Days of Disco. La fiction pulpe de Gerard de Villiers. February 4, 2013. Robert Worth writes a compelling and entertaining portrait of French spy novelist Gerard de Villiers in this week’s New York Times Magazine. Here’s a short list of a few of the accuracies de Villiers nails in “Putsch à Ouagadougou.”. There is a Hotel Silmande, and it is the ritziest of the hotels in Ouagadougou. My Last Days of Disco. Addres...
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Peace Corps Days, Morocco, circa Chris Stevens | Staccato Signals of Constant Information
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Staccato Signals of Constant Information. My Cutting Room Floor. What This Is About. Where the US Embassy in Libya Used to Be. The Band Really Was on the Run: McCartney in Lagos →. Peace Corps Days, Morocco, circa Chris Stevens. September 24, 2012. A picture of the late US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, taken when he served in the Peace Corps in Morocco. When I first heard (Chris) had been killed I immediately recognized the name and thought, ‘Peace Corps? This entry was posted in Uncategorized.