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« Derrida dust-up | Main | Mooninite missives, part 2 » Friday, February 2, 2007Something besides MooninitesThe media coverage of the Mooninite affair is depressing today. We journalists are rushing to defend the actions and statements of police and city officials, we're demonizing the poor guys who were hired to install the Mooninite devices, and we're finding lame reasons to justify the fact that Boston is the only city that overreacted in this way. Is this what it was like in the days following Orson Welles's "War of the Worlds" broadcast (also called a hoax, though it wasn't)? Besides, I was out late last night with Globe, Boston.com, and Weekly Dig friends and colleagues, celebrating my last day on the job. So, I'm out of it... I'm going to post about something else, this morning. A few days ago, I wrote a post about a fine new collection of artworks and illustrations by Jim Flora. I'm now informed by Irwin Chusid, the great WFMU radio personality and independent cultural archaeologist, that the Jim Flora website was overhauled and relaunched. Check it out!  Posted by Joshua Glenn at 09:41 AM
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