Category: culture

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Different starting points, same facts

A very good question, posed by the Creation Museum. Blogger John Scalzi took a visit there and shares a great photo tour as well as writing up quite the report on his visit. I had to stop reading and looking...

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I got it! Did you?

Ok, my iPhone needs a zoom and a better autofocus. I tried to snap above sticker for two days with the iPhone’s camera and it came out blurred no matter how I got close or far away. Thankfully no one’s...

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Writer’s Blo(g)ck?

Wow, I got nothing. This is definitely going to be one of those “stuff happened” entries as just about all that’s gone on today was I had too much coffee (for which I had good service again) this morning and...

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What a difference a day makes

So I must have been trapped in Bizarro Starbucks World yesterday morning since today’s visit was almost like an old-school commercial or the intro to a 50’s tv show. I walked in and smiled at the barista as usual and...

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It’s already such a good morning…

Nothing like waking up with Federally mandated jet-lag, but at least I know that the rest of the country’s going to have it as well. It’s going to suck when my body catches up with the time change and I’ll...

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A few Sunday table scraps

Yesterday was a bit of a good food day, breakfast, farmers market, and last night’s dinner of salmon roulettes with spinach stuffing, and lime thai-style rice in coconut milk. While I was having breakfast, I saw that my local watering...

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What tickles your fancy?

Take Notes. Is fainthearted one word or two? Student prose has wrecked her spelling. It’s one word. Two words–Faint Hearted–what would that be? The name of a drag queen. People Like That are the Only People Here, Lorrie Moore A...

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Pop-Up Heroes

I think I’m pretty late to the game with this one, but last night I watched Heroes combined with the interactive 2Screen site on the show’s page. Of course it’s sponsored by Nissan as for all things Heroes related, NBC...