Tag Archives: In The News

Water, Water, Everywhere, Or Not.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

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It Happened At The County Fair

After reading an article about state fairs in the New York Times, I was reminded of the smells of a fair. It is a wholly unique aroma; part cotton candy, part funnel cake, part hot dogs, part candied apples, part … Continue reading

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The Age Myth

A couple of years ago The New Yorker wrote a piece asking why genius is so inextricably tied up with precocity, citing many examples, among them Mozart, T.S. Elliot and Orson Welles. There are many more, and we know most … Continue reading

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Glamping

It’s camping with glamour. I read about it in Southern Living. Don’t give me that look. I read everything. So back to “Glamping.”

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Riding the 4th of July Stretcher

Clear, blue skies pushed choking humidity to the last 20 feet above the crabgrass. That way, even tall people on a ladder or a drunk sitting in a lawn chair on top of his RV could feel it. Temps flirted … Continue reading

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Cooking Up A Storm Of New Cookbooks

There are a lot of new back-to-basics cookbooks being published these days with the Slow Food movement and it’s first through third cousins roaming the aisles at bookstores.

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Pedaling Blood and Drugs

Lance Armstrong has been accused, yet again, of doping before and even during races. This is not a new situation for the cocky Texan. It’s happened before in books (David Walsh’s L.A. Confidentiel) and by other riders like Greg LeMond … Continue reading

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Airporn

Have you seen the images from the new full-body scanners being used at airports now? It is supposed to better detect weapons by seeing through travelers clothes, allowing TSA officials to get a damned good look at your body, as … Continue reading

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The Last, Hic, Ten Years.

The 2000’s sucked, unless you were a bartender. A recent article in the New York Times about the last decade not only mentioned it as the worst decade ever, but followed that pronouncement with ruminations about how it was the … Continue reading

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My Sign Sucks

We all have to be something. Aries, Tarus, Winnebago. I am a Sagittarius. I have never put even a remote amount of faith into such things. I’ve always figured our fortune was guided or blunted by our own actions, not … Continue reading

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