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If I wrote about a dear pet on Facebook would you think me a doofus. What about a departed TV? Well, here goes: Good bye trusty and transformational Trinitron Sony TV.The Cadillac of the analog CRT era. What a unique approach you took to presenting pixels! Not passed til the eyepadde. Good bye Trinitron Sony TV the family once prayed for when the flower vase had fallen, driven by the wind, and slurped the TV with water, to short the printed circuit board. How we rejoiced when it dried and worked again. Apologies for crashing into it, and knocking it to the floor – sssqisshhhhhhhhhhhhh- in the night, when I wondered about cause I thought I smelled smoke. This time, the TV not to dry and revive. You showed usIraq, Norman Mailer, Pee Wee, the new Pope, the first Black president. Good bye Trinitron. I salute you on your journey to recycle. 2012.

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Jack Vaughan

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John Silber has died at 86. Like I heard a guy say tonight in Bogart movie’All Through the Night’: I am reasonably sad. Sounds unkind, but what can I say? He was something of a son of a bitch. I studied at BU for nine years, and worked there just as long. Long time BU president John Silber was confrontational – and in me he found a found a foe, though are paths only crossed directly in some political cartoons I did for the BU News, and on picket lines.In a union battle we were on opposite poles.
He died this week, and of course you figure, let’s not say something bad about him. What I can say good about him is he overcame physical drawbacks that would stifle many people, and he was sure enough goddam alive and vibrant. So he was a worthy foe. Like a warlord he lived an inappropriately lavish life (a French provincial manse for life – pension surpassing most dreams, chaueffers), I would contend, and was blind as far as I ever saw to the value of compassion in the polis. C’set la guerre. To John in afterlife, a confession: It was me who used to shout “Louis, zee people are starving!” passing your house around 11.30 pm some weeknights, before the 24-hour police protection was posted.

Jeffrey Hull
Great story Jack. All things must pass.

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