Coincidences 1 & 2
February 18, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, The Home Front
* How cool is this? The superfabulous Peabody Essex Museum, which I have written about elsewhere, is sponsoring a talk on “Keeping the fire in the dark moon times.” Guess which three dark-moon states, out of the 50, they’ve chosen to highlight? Massachusetts. Alaska. Hawaii. My states, all.
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Irregularities
February 05, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Swellville is one of only four towns in our entire crazy-liberal state that consistently votes Republican (gotta to protect those capital gains, don’t you know).
The first time T and I voted here we were a little taken aback by the setup. The polling place (really it’s the elementary school...
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Mystery candidate revealed
January 30, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front, The Way We Live Now
Them:
Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Wednesday, January 30, 2008—9:23 AM ET
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John Edwards to Drop Out of Presidential Race
John Edwards is ending his bid for the Democratic
presidential nomination after failing to win any of the nominating contests so far, according to his...
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Blue (Porno!) Hawaii
January 29, 2008
Filed in: Hawaii
In the Times’ lead travel article this weekend, Hawaii on a Dime, Matt Gross writes a few pithy lines that sum up perfectly my feelings about Hawaii:
Hawaii is easy, Hawaii has nothing to hide. Hawaii is, touristically speaking, pornographic in its single-minded baring of its assets.
Yes,...
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Tell me your bookish thoughts
January 23, 2008
Filed in: The Home Front
Holla, peeps: I turned on comments for this blog, which is a really big deal for me, because I’ve been working with and writing about the Internet for 15 years, so I know full on how many crazy over-opinionated flamers there are out there in cyberspace (wow, there’s a phrase you don’t hear much...
