Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Foreign Policy reviews the year

One of the reasons I started this blog was to recall moments in our collective life that have quickly passed m thought. Haven't kept too true to that, but luckily, Foreign Policy has done a much better recap than I ever could.

How many of these moments have slipped from your mind already? 
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  1. Peter RozovskyJanuary 9, 2011 at 3:07 PM

    Good roundup, crap year.

    My evocative v-word sounds like somewhere one could go in the 1950s, stick a nickel in a slot, and hear one's own voice: echomat
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  2. seana grahamJanuary 9, 2011 at 3:30 PM

    That's a good word. Very nostalgic, in an alternate reality sort of way.

    I continue to be amazed how many of these huge news stories have dwindled almost to nothing in terms of the psychic space they inhabit both in my consciousness and in the collective one.

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  3. Peter RozovskyJanuary 9, 2011 at 4:18 PM

    I'll never utter a less original though than this, but what you say is no surprise. Why should the branch of big-media entertainment called news linger in the mind longer than any other branch?

    This latest v-word could designate the extreme outer reaches of the South African plains: exoveld
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