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Blog Entries by Michael Sigman from 07/2010

Can America Again Become An Imagine-Nation?

| Posted 07.03.2010 | Healthy Living
Read More: Roger Nygard, West Egg, Independence Day, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gulf Oil Spill, Jean-Paul Sartre, Mark Twain, Facebook, The Nature of Existence, The Great Gatsby, Great Neck, Apple, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Healthy Living News

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain A woman I once worked with believed in a world in which everyone ...

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Looking for an Echo: 10 That Shoulda Made The Top 10

| Posted 07.06.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: Multiverse, Judee Sill, The Only Ones, Eric Andersen, Moody Blues, Kenny Vance and the Planotones, Jackie DeShannon, Looking for an Echo, Jesse Winchester, The Penguins, Randy Newman, Graham Parker, Bernard Carr, Joni Mitchell, The Hollies, James Hunter, Paul Siebel, Del McCoury Band, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Herman's Hermits, Mother Maybelle Carter, Johnny Cash, Al Kooper, Bessie Banks, Danny & the Evergreens, Carlene Carter, Nick Lowe, Entertainment News

Our universe may be but one of perhaps infinitely many universes in an inconceivably vast multiverse. -- Cosmologist Bernard Carr The best job I ever...

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Mr. Publisher, Don't Tear Down That Wall

| Posted 07.10.2010 | Media
Read More: LA Times, Chicago Reader, Alison Draper, Tribune Company, Ken Turan, Jim Warren, Miami Heat, Alison True, Laextra, Kevin Roderick, Nba, LeBron James, LA Times Calendar, La Observed, Espn, Media News

Publishers may feel they need to throw unorthodox revenue techniques against the wall to see what sticks. It's reasonable for us to suggest they pick a different wall than the one between advertising and editorial.

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Looking for an Echo (2): 10 More That Shoulda Made The Top 10

| Posted 07.14.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: Shaver, Bonnie Raitt, Drive by Truckers, Starry Eyes, Judee Sill, Peggy Seeger, Swedish, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Billie Joe Shaver, The Records, The Move, Bessie Banks, Elvis Presley, Ewan MacColl, Jackie DeShannon, Norway, Jesse Winchester, Allan Clarke, Memphis, George Jones, Graham Parker, The Hollies, Dion, Jerry Lee Lewis, Graceland, Paul Siebel, Jimmy Webb, Art Garfunkel, Eddy Shaver, Cadillac, Chuck Cuminale, Kirsty MacColl, Entertainment News

The Multiverse Theory has nothing to do with lengthy poetry. Also known as "eternal inflation" -- a concept to which all payers of college tuition can...

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America's Cheesiest Charttoppers

| Posted 07.25.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: Sammy Davis Jr., Lee Michaels, Neil Diamond, Clint Holmes, Styx, President Obama, Napoleon XIV, S/Sgt Barry Sadler, Charlene, Bill Murray, Chuck Berry, Zager & Evans, Debbie Boone, Fabian Forte, Frankie Avalon, Pat Boone, Bobby Goldsboro, Caddyshack, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Entertainment News

Revisiting some of the greatest records that never made the pop charts here and here was a heavenly experience. But like so many of life's pleasures, ...

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America's Cheesiest Charttoppers (Part 2)

| Posted 07.29.2010 | Entertainment
Read More: Mouth & MacNeal, Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods, America, Cole Porter, Neil Young, Morris Albert, Charlene, Terry Jacks, Odia Coates, Helen Reddy, Billy Joel, Starship, Jennifer Lopez, David Geddes, Bruce Johnston, Barry Manilow, Ohio Express, Igor Stravinsky, Les Crane, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, Bobby Goldsboro, Entertainment News

A carton of Maalox later, l submit the following tracks for induction into the Worst Hits Hall of Fame.

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