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Mark Geil commented on the post, The Lost Art of Listening, Part 1: Ubiquity & Scarcity 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Back in February, I was in Target early, just after it opened, buying a release-day Blu-ray. I was surprised to see little groups of teenage girls—maybe three of them—making their way to that electronics area at the back of the store. The clerk there was ready. He handed each one a white box about the size of, say, Springsteen’s Live box set.…[Read more]
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Mark Geil wrote a new post, The Resident 2 years ago
I lay on a cold metal table, pondering death and mortality, while Theo Huxtable dragged a scalpel down the middle of my chest.
This wasn’t a dream, or a nightmare. This was real life. At least, the fake version o […]
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Mark Geil wrote a new post, Resurrection Letters Release Day 2 years, 9 months ago
[Editor’s note: Today is the day—as we walk into Easter weekend, through Good Friday and towards Sunday, we now have Resurrection Letters: Volume I to keep us company. Below is Mark Geil’s review of Andrew Pe […]
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Brilliant. Thank you for expressing this for the rest of us.
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Mark Geil commented on the post, Thanks to U2 for the Moth-Force 3 years, 7 months ago
Thanks for the introduction. I’ve read that last bit over and over just now. “Wild hope can always spring from tended strength.” I’m also reminded of Ben Shive’s song “Listen!”
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Mark Geil wrote a new post, Interview with Ron Block and Rebecca Reynolds 3 years, 11 months ago
Good music has a way of fostering community, and sometimes that community begets more good music. A collaborative album between Ron Block and Jeff Taylor has seemed like a natural for years now, and the occasions […]
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Thanks for doing this (the record, the interview, the post – all of it)!
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Mark Geil commented on the post, If You Could Be One Character from a Book… 4 years, 3 months ago
Linus van Pelt. Loyal, sincere, philosophical.
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Mark Geil commented on the post, Ron Block and Jeff Taylor: Trouble Go Down 4 years, 3 months ago
It’s like Men Without Hats, except the opposite.
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Mark Geil are now friends 4 years, 6 months ago
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Jennifer Bast and
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Bill Smithfield and
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Mark Geil commented on the post, Tuning Up: A Few Words About the Forums 4 years, 7 months ago
When you put the wheels back on the axles, can you put baseball cards in the spokes?
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Rebecca Reynolds and
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Mark, this is excellent. Thank you so much for sharing this bit of make-believe in such a realistic way. I doubt that any of us will look at random medical TV drama in the same way again.
This was a fascinating read and so thought-provoking. I remember when I found out how fake the “reality” home-buying shows are after a friend was on one and coached all the way through as to what to say and how to act, even though they had already closed on the actual house before filming! Makes one look at these things with a much more critical eye. And I, for one, am very thankful that we will be fully alive and functioning after death. Would hate for Heaven to be a boring place where we just float around and play harps forever!