Tagged: culture
Weekend Recap-a-licious
I realized that I was getting a bit wordy, so decided to split up the “today sucks” post from the “weekend” post. 🙂 There’s really no rhyme or reason to the breaks, I just got long-winded. The weekend was pretty...
Online, everyone has bulletproof social armor
Someone to Watch Over Me (on a Google Map) | NYT …like many of my generation, I consistently trade actual human contact for the more reliable emotional high of smiles on MySpace, winks on Match.com and pokes on Facebook. I...
What the–?
Lady Liberty Trades In Some Trappings | Memphis Journal via NYT MEMPHIS, July 4 — On Independence Day, Lady Liberty was born again. As the congregation of the World Overcomers Outreach Ministries Church looked on and its pastor, Apostle Alton...
The Way I See It #130
It will do us little good to wire the world if we short-circuit our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty or sectarian violence. No keystroke can ever clean the air, save a river, preserve a forest. This...
I’m a musician, man.
And here I thought Steven Seagal juice was bad enough, Kickin’ Blues Brother “I’ve been playing music since I was a boy,” Seagal says. “I’m a musician, man. This is what I do. I got a little bit of pride...
You have got to be freakin’ kidding me.
“Thirty years ago, a recipe would say, ‘Add two eggs,’” said Bonnie Slotnick, a longtime cookbook editor and owner of a rare-cookbook shop in New York’s Greenwich Village. “In the ’80s, that was changed to ‘beat two eggs until lightly...
Fill ‘er up!
From the press release: Starbucks will host its first-ever National Coffee Break, inviting customers in for a complimentary cup of freshly brewed coffee, on March 15 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. In more than 7,500 stores, partners (employees) will...