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What Are You Doing with Your One Wild and Precious Life?

Jim McDermottAugust 31, 2010

Writer Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About A Boy) and musician Ben Folds collaborate with online artists Pomplamoose for a provocative meditation about how we think about life. 

 

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Pearce Shea
14 years 10 months ago
Not to be snarky, but how was that provocative and not just interesting (Nick Hornby) and the usual fee stuff we get from Ben Folds and Pomplamoose?

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