Travel Stunts from Days of Yore
June 09, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Here’s a 50th State-appropriate tidbit ganked in its entirety from The Writer’s Almanac. I like the bit about women getting “worked up” at more than 20 mph.
It was on this day in 1909 that the first woman to drive across the United States, Alice Huyler Ramsey, left New York City for San...
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Swellville, You’re Killing Me
April 10, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
It’s irony week here in Swellville, which, ironically, coincides with Holy Week. Last year I went all penitent; this year, the you’re-gonna-be-sorry karma is coming to me. To wit:
1) There’s been a pretty much steady stream of teacher hate going around town since the beginning of the budget...
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Rocky Mountain Blues
February 27, 2009
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
The Rocky Mountain News is folding. I know it’s a sign of the times blah blah and the newspaper moguls didn’t do enough fast enough to save themselves (hmm, no bailouts for this flailing industry?), but it’s a shame anyhow.
When D and I took our momentus trip cross country and back in 1985, we...
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John Updike, in 2 acts
February 22, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Life’s a shabby subterfuge
And death is real, and dark, and huge.
Those are lines from one of the last poems from John Updike.
The man is cold in his grave—he died, in case you’ve been under a particularly large boulder, nearly a month ago now. But damnit, I have two Updike sitings to...
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Just for the record…
January 21, 2009
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
The United States swore a new president in yesterday. You may have heard?
(photo ganked from The New York Times)
It’s silly to blog about the most-covered event since 9/11, so just skip this post; it’s only for my digital posterity (since T tried in vain to obtain some hard-paper copies of...
