December 2010
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“The passing of Kodachrome has been much noted, from the CBS News program ”Sunday...”
– Unpossible Project?
(Via.)
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On selflessness
Late Sunday night I came down with symptoms that I thought were food poisoning, but now, having googled and consulted my mother, I think it was/is a stomach flu—the swift and vicious sort that comes on without warning and leaves you drenched in sweat and self-pity. I spent yesterday hazing in and out of consciousness, unable to stand up straight because of dehydration cramps. My upstairs...
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m a s t i c a t e: You say tourtière, I say... →
It is almost Christmas and that means it is time to make tourtière, the French-Canadian meat pie that’s served at réveillon or any time thereabouts. Apparently the proper pronunciation is “tou’-tYARE,” with the rolly R, but in my homeland of central Maine we say “toochay.” I’ve heard that…
I used to keep an occasionally-updated food Tumblr, until various food intolerances made it too...
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“By the 21st century, Caps Lock had become an outdated scourge. Modern-day...”
– Six bait (via aatombomb)
CAN’T HEAR YOU I’M YELLING
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“Suddenly, someone spotted what looked like an overturned kayak with a person...”
– Sometimes a log is just a log.
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Enjoy the commerce!
A philosopher friend (hand to G-d that may or may not exist, he does it professionally) has adopted the above as a seasonal greeting, only half-seriously, I think. Someone said it to him this weekend as he was walking in to one of the 3,248 holiday craft fairs/bazaars that take place in southern Maine this time of year; I was passing by on my way out of the craft fair and had, indeed, enjoyed the...
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Every year, for my mother's birthday (happy...
My mother, wearing a cowboy hat and pigtails.
A pony. On a sidewalk. On the Upper West Side. (Per mom, re: the good old days: “I don’t know, there were these men with ponies — they just walked around and you could sit on them and have your picture taken.”)
The pony owner, holding my mother in the saddle so she doesn’t fall and create an expensive liability issue....
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“Reagan may have resisted calls for tax increases, but he ultimately supported...”
– This comes from the National Review archives, so the list of Reagan-era tax hikes winds toward a thesis that “economic elites” “ganged up” on the Gipper and forced him to raise taxes, but it is still a pretty good list of tax hikes President Reagan did not veto.
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The Lost Canadians →
Dietzler, sixty-seven, is one of about a hundred year-round residents of the Northwest Angle and Islands, a 302-square-kilometre US exclave unwittingly created by the comically unwieldy Article II of the 1818 treaty.
Automatic Walrus reblog.
Also this story is fascinating.
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It ain't easy running a strip club in Maine
And not just because it gets wicked cold here, either.
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Dear Tumblr, I have discovered "The Wire"
Send help/season 2.
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The limits of recycling
Today the smaller cat—the one who did not have a heart condition, until last week, when it was discovered that he does have a heart condition—had to go to the vet for a series of x-rays and blood draws. Howl, howl, howl. You can’t reason with a cat about going to the vet, but then again why should you? No one wants to have a heart condition. No one wants to be shoved in a box at...
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vickyj asked: I can't tell for sure because the site is blocked at work, but there is a store called kiosk (kioskkiosk.com) that probably has nice, possibly American made toothpicks. It just seems like the place that wood. Leaving that typo-pun in.
