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About davidbdale

My name honors my mother Beatrice (Bea) and my father Dale. I am the author of 299 Very Short Novels and several plays and the Artistic Director of Must See Theater company.

Leonard Cohen “Hallelujah”

What a hook. (You might know Jeff Buckley’s version.)

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The Teeth “Ball of the Dead Rat”

They’d be a local band if they hadn’t disbanded. Pity. They rocked.

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Weather Report “Blackthorn Rose”

Joe Zawinul on the keyboards, Wayne Shorter on soprano saxophone. This is in my head at least once a day.

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Zap Mama “Bottom”

Nothing but female voices from Belgium, AFrica, island nations.

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Weather Report “Birdland”

A little something from an early jazz fusion pioneer of the 1970s.

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Task: Safer Saws

Exultant InventorTwelve years ago an avid home woodworker invented an ingenious device that stops a table saw blade within 4/1000ths of a second of contact with human flesh. The technology could prevent thousands of amputations every year in the United … Continue reading

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Notes for a Lecture about Animals and Chips

Nothing enlivens a dry conceptual essay like a cow. So, if you have to keep your readers awake long enough to follow a detailed abstract argument, hire as many cows as necessary to dance across your page. Also consider providing … Continue reading

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Transcript of Cookie Boycott Video

My thanks to Rebecca, a “20-something trans woman” whose “free associations on gender, politics, geekery, and more” (including the transcript below) can be found at The Thang Blog. –David Hodges _____________________________________________ Hello. I’ve been a Girl Scout for eight years. … Continue reading

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Exercise: Try to Say Something

In-class Exercise THU JAN 19, 2012 First, launch the handout “Try to Say Something,” from this link or from the sidebar category Required Reading. Study the handout carefully before beginning the exercise. Then, examine the sentences below for wastefulness, vagueness, … Continue reading

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Do You Feel Safer?

Beefed-up security at airport terminals is intended to make us safer when we fly. The practice of checking passengers’ bags and personal items for explosives, firearms, or weapons of any kind, it stands to reason, should also make us feel … Continue reading

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