Category: Everyday Stories
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The day before the day when many will be dozing on turkey
Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving. If you look back a couple of posts you’ll see the picture of a dead turkey and a comment on Edward Curtis. That’s my sideswipe version of a Thanksgiving commentary, I guess. But I hope everyone who drops by and reads this post has a good holiday weekend. Right now I’m deep in…
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I fail on the song meme
Tild hit me with the following song meme. It doesn’t matter what genre they are, whether they have words, or even if they’re any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the songs in your blog. Then tag five other friends to see what they’re…
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Dear upstairs neighbor
Dear Upstairs Neighbor: I didn’t mean it when I told the landlord that I didn’t care about your chickens one way or another but that, after months of them wandering the narrow back courtyard-alley under the fire escapes all day, I would rather them in a chicken coop than out pooping all over the place…
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Monday – dead bird blogging
Turkey at the Fernbank, 2005 Everyone else blogs pics of pretty live birds sighted from their lovely home environ which has the kind of things (trees, food) that attracts avians other than asphalt-nibbling pigeons. But there’s no point my missing out on the prom, so I dug up a date. At the Fernbank Museum of…
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Museums and ants
At the Museum of Natural History Digital painting (with photo by artist as reference) 25.09 high by 22.56 inches wide 2005 Lightbox enlargement Detail.
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The grandparents of the Power Puff Girls
The grandparents of the Power Puff Girls are those big-eyed waif pictures from the 60s and 70s that went so well with Tang, the space-age powdered orange drink choice of astronauts. The prototype were those painted by Margaret Keane, and despite the cutesy factor, the world looked cold for those parentless children. When I was…
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Reading about diamonds
There’s an area called Popular at Technorati. I rarely drop by there. When I remember it exists, I check out a few blogs to see what’s up, like crossing a virtual ocean to the far side where I bang my head with mysterious invisible hammers until I’m appropriately stupefied and return home full of wonder…
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I suppose I can identify with aiming for good in one’s own tortured way
Oh, and just in case I thought I’m not interested in that kind of thing (which I’m not), I will sometimes say, “Ok, yeah, let’s walk right over that cliff!” as in if the rest of the pack is going, “Ooo, fun,” I will taste the day’s item on the menu because once I tried…
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Reagan and Nancy
Imagine here a picture of Reagan as Tarzan with Nancy as Jane and that it’s in soft focus black and white or luxurious petal pastels, Reagan with his chimp and Nancy holding her starchart up to the heavens, reading the future, “Ronnie, believe it or not, you will be remembered as a compassionate conservative!” He…
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Someone going by the name of Katharine DeBrecht doesn’t like sharing and she doesn’t like to barter–just thought you’d like to know
Sunday, a woman honked at Marty and waved wildly for his attention. What was up? “I love you,” she shouted. As it turns out, she works for the ACLU here and was responding to our ACLU bumper sticker. The cover of Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed! depicts some caricatured well-known faces crawling…
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Will Pennsylvania be where it normally is come Monday?
Oh goodness. Pat Robertson has gone and warned voters of Dover, Pennsylvania that since they voted out a school board that supported intelligent design they’re likely to be struck by disaster. “I’d like to say to the good citizens of Dover: if there is a disaster in your area, don’t turn to God, you just…
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Will it still bounce (and we’re still lousy scientists)
Another We Are Lousy Scientists posting. We made a bouncing ball. You need borax, cornstarch glue and water. The instructions also tell you that you need a lot of other things like a cup that you mark as having your borax mixture and a cup you mark as having your glue-cornstarch mixture and things like…