Peter Rice in the Albuquerque Tribune today today has an upate on the Albuquerque giant scissors phenomenon: For official ribbon cuttings, Kerby Moore had been borrowing a jumbo-sized pair of scissors from the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, but those events are becoming so frequent that she’s ordering her own.
There’s a story I heard once about John Coltrane: that he spent his whole musical career looking for the right saxophone mouthpiece. He was searching for the sound he heard in his head. I was thinking of that Wednesday morning, curled up in the den reading as the snow fell outside. I’m in the midst …
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Bee Clue CandyOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Do you need some refreshment in your weariness? The only way of knowing the interest just by experiencing. Storage method: avoid the sunlight (Hat tip The Mother of The Boy, who has serious goofball cred.)
They are ritualized art, the movie summaries in the daily TV listings – usually less than 10 words to summarize an entire film. Today’s favorite: Patton: Gen. George S. Patton fights World War II.
The Internet has made it too easy to be a quack. In my desk drawer at work, I have a wonderful collection of old UFO nuttiness from the early 1990s. It’s wonderful stuff – wildly imaginative zines full of poor writing, even poorer graphical presentation and absolutely wonderfully muddy thinking. Back in the day, you …
if you please, for the 32 journalists who died this year serving you in Iraq: Violence in Iraq claimed the lives of 32 journalists in 2006, the deadliest year for the press in a single country that the Committee to Protect Journalists has ever recorded. In most cases, such as the killing of Atwar Bahjat, …
From today’s Zippy (link will point to a different comic after 12/19/2006): Griffy: It isn’t what you say, Zippy. It’s how you say it. Zippy: Noam Chomsky! Noam Chomsky! Noam Chomsky!
Forced to write a daybook on account of ’cause I ran across a cool word of the day, which is: word of the day: “apophenia” – “the experience of seeing patterns where none exist” – definition from Bob Park, writing in the 9 December New Scientist reading: Acequia Culture, Jose Rivera’s book about the village-based …
My Journal colleague Pat Vasquez-Cunningham did a beautiful multimedia package based on his photographs and interviews with Pearl Harbor survivor Ray Baker. Additional interviews with Homer Garcia, John Stanhope and James Rounding.
There’s a phrase that’s never appeared in the Googleverse. Until now.