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> TIME VIDEO interview with Jake Shimabukuro ~ link

> I SPENT a couple of hours today in the MVD with friend Jeffrey who is trying to get an Arizona driver's license. (Unfortunately, the secondary ID and his birth certificate were inadequate -- in spite of what they had told him on his last visit -- bureaucratic nightmare.) There were hundred's of tense adults and a fair number of unhappy children packed into this huge room waiting to be called. I got to thinking that the thing they most needed in there was a flash ukulele mob. But there was only one of me and I wasn't packing the uke. Next time.

> YESSSS... Kindle books getting page numbers ~ NY Times | WSJ

> YESSSS... 72° days in Phoenix & beautiful sunsets

> INCEPTION -- finally found a Red Box with it. At least I think I did - unless I was dreaming.

> TODAY'S 2ND amendment story ~ link

> THE GAME was better than average. The half-time show made me yawn. And other than the Darth Vader kid VW commercial, there was a noticeable shortage of creativity in the advertising department. We seem to be doing okay with football but otherwise we are a nation in crisis. And it has nothing to do with the economy and everything to do with the implosion of national imagination.

> WELL, OKAY, at least we can laugh at ourselves. -- The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator

> AGREED -- Mike Elgan: "AOL loses mind, pays $315 million for HuffPo" ~ link

> IS IT JUST because I flew on United Airlines last week that I'm now hearing George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" on the radio so often? It's nice that he has a corporate sponsor.

> MARTIN MARTY on Brian McLaren's approach to evolutionary Christianity ~ link

> FINALLY, AFTER 50 YEARS, the "Der" is back in "Wienerschnitzel." I love hot dogs but admittedly that restaurant must be confusing to Austrian tourists looking for a nice cut of veal. ~ link