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Everything Rational And Sensible Abandons Me When I Try To Throw Out Photographs. Time And Time Again, I Hold One Over A Wastebasket, And Then Find It Impossible To Release My Fingers And Let The Picture Drop And Disappear.

I Rarely Listen To Commercial Radio, And When I Do, I'm Shocked By How Many Ads There Are, And How Annoying They Are, And How Bad The Radio Station Usually Is.

I'm Always Mystified By The Day-to-day Workings Of Entities Like Twitter That Provide Framework But Not Content, But I Suppose It Could Be Compared To The U.s. Postal Service, Which Manages To Keep A Lot Of People Employed Doing Lots Of Stuff Other Than Writing Letters.

Here's A Habit I Never Thought I'd Develop: I Gravitate To Anything Online That's Marked 'most Popular' Or 'most E-mailed.' And I Hate Myself A Little Bit Every Time I Do.

I Love Writing Traditional Magazine Pieces, And Especially Their Breadth Of Reporting And The Deliberateness Of The Writing.