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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.
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
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.”
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.
Posted in Books, Entertainment, Famous People, Food
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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
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
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