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Saturday, 14 October 2006

Message in a Bottle

A girl in Scotland threw a bottle into the ocean and it arrived in New Zealand, making the journey at an average clip of 369 knots, which is completely absurd. Is it a hoax? Did someone pick it up in an æroplane somehow? Strange story—one wonders what the truth of it is.

Christmas on Moonlighting, circa 1985

I just watched the first Christmas episode of Moonlighting, from way back in 1985. At the end the camera pans out of the scene to reveal the entire studio & its crew, all singing The First Noël. It’s striking how much our culture has changed: in 1985 one could make a Christmas episode featuring a religious song; nowadays one cannot even refer to the Christmas season, but rather to some absurd holiday season. It’s sad how low we’ve sunk in a mere 21 years.


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