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After-Supper Streets: A Brief Reverie

After-Supper Streets: A Brief Reverie

We were talking recently—not you and I but someone else and I (look, I can know someone, right?)—about the phenomenon of summer streets. Or more to the point, summer streets after supper, when we were kids.

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The Out-Loud Value of Keeping Quiet

The Out-Loud Value of Keeping Quiet

In John Huston’s memorable version of Dashiell Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon,” Peter Lorre (as criminal Joel Cairo) says to Humphrey Bogart (as private detective Sam Spade), “You always have a very smooth explanation.”

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A Tribute to My Dad on His 107th Birthday

A Tribute to My Dad on His 107th Birthday

My dad, Robert Goldman, was born on April 12, 1916. In the very unlikely event he’d have had a very long life, he’d be turning 107 today. But he died at 60 in June 1976 of colon cancer in Southern California. Two months later I was hired by the City of Sacramento to be its second public information officer in history and also left La-la Land behind.

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Game-ify Me!

Game-ify Me!

If you’ve been wondering, “What’s the next idiotic verb that will be added to our lexicon?”, wonder no more. It’s gamify (pronounced game-if-eye), which means to make something that isn’t a game in the slightest into an actual one.

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Dane Dame Demotes Dauphins

Dane Dame Demotes Dauphins

Early last Autumn, as the world mourned the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Europe’s only other queen—Margrethe of Denmark, now the continent’s longest serving monarch—quietly stripped. I hope that got your attention.

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