OK, so remember all those plants we put out front last Saturday? Today’s Saturday was spent ripping them all out and putting new ones in. Hooray! At least part of the blame goes to the fact that the night we planted those flowers, we had a huge wind storm that actually broke at least one […]
Someone asked J. Michael Straczynski if he was getting any financial benefit from the repurposing of Babylon 5 as DVDs, iTunes files, and so on. His answer: Not a gripe, just an answer…as writer, creator and EP I have never received anything from the DVD sales, Itunes, AOL, bittorrent, soundtracks or any other form of […]
Boy, when I said it was gonna be an interesting two weeks, I wasn’t kidding, was I? Michael Nutter has become the clear front-runner in the mayoral primary. You can read some of Chris Bowers’ thoughts on that over at MyDD; Chris’s ward is one of those endorsing Nutter, so you can get a sense […]
I’m glad to see that Fort Dix apparently employs the same security protocols as my college in the Bronx did: Fort Dix has heavily guarded checkpoints with serpentine courses leading to guardhouses, gates and metal pop-up strips to stop the traffic. The post has an X-ray machine that sees through trucks, and it checks the […]
Let me point you to a post on MyDD on the idea of pluralism and how it intersects with American politics right now; I had an interesting back and forth within the comment thread on defining pluralism and what demands it makes from a cultural standpoint – a theme that might be familiar to you […]
With the news that ABC has announced a planned end date for Lost three years from now, I’ve imagined recurring guest star Mira Furlan holding seminars entitled “What to Do When My Executive Producer Cuts My Steady Gig Short Because His Story Has an Ending.” Given Furlan’s presence on Lost, I have found it kind […]
Interesting AP report on the Web today about Keith Olbermann’s anchoring coverage of the recent Republican presidential candidate debate, shortly after making a Special Comment that criticized Rudy Giuliani. There’s a parallel drawn between the way Republicans view Olbermann and Democrats view Fox News, and a discussion of whether someone who quite openly editorializes on […]
Spent most of today on some long-delayed gardening-type projects in the front of our house. We have a very small dirt hill next to our front walk/front steps, and a very thin strip of dirt between our driveway and the neighbor’s driveway. Last year we had our retaining wall replaced with a new brick wall, […]
So Pete Yorn, having previously opened for R.E.M. and collaborated with the Dixie Chicks, will be doing some shows opening for the reformed Crowded House in August, including a show in Philly. One of these days I really ought to go see Yorn headline a show, but if he keeps opening for groups I’m going […]
There’s no real point to this post, just waffles…shaped like keyboards, but I think they’re pretty cool. Made on a waffle iron composed of re-purposed typewriter parts, this is recycling at its most delicious. Pass the organic maple syrup and locally grown CSA berries, please.