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2/16/2016

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"Please don't install speakers in every single corner of a shopping mall, even its outdoor spaces. Please don't fill up every moment between innings in a lazy college baseball game with thundering excitement. Please give me a way to turn off the monitor in the backseat of a taxi. Please let there be one corner of the bar where the flickering delivery system for Bud Lite commercials is deemed unnecessary, because I am already at the bar. The attentional commons is an idea that I hope will catch on among those who are in a position to make such sanctuaries happen: building managers, commercial real estate developers, and interior designers. Here is a modest proposal: Could the Muzak be made opt-in rather than opt-out? Once every twenty minutes, somebody in the room would have to deliberately hit a button to restart it, and thereby actively affirm 'Yes! We want some emo in here!'"   -Matthew B. Crawford
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BONNIE Buckingham
2/18/2016 03:52:06 pm

At first, I thought this was Matthew Crawford on Downton Abbey... but he died on the show. Now reading and looking up who this real person is. Got a good chuckle!

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Laurie Bestvater
2/19/2016 10:00:16 am

"Alas, poor Matthew, (em, Crawley,) I knew him well!" As you have discovered this is Matthew B Crawford of Shop Class as Soulcraft fame. I am really enjoying his new book The World Beyond Your Head.

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BONNIE Buckingham
2/28/2016 10:30:35 am

I realized Downton''s Crawley but didn't recognize Matthew Crawford as the author for Soulcraft, Read it and will look for his new book. Thanks.

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Laurie
2/29/2016 04:27:50 pm

Whatever are we going to do with our Sunday evenings??

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