March 2011
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February 2011
18 posts
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Sometimes when I shovel
Sometimes when I shovel my head gets hot so I take off my hat and throw it in the snow. Then I pretend it is an animal I have just killed with my bare hands.
Sometimes when I shovel I pretend that I am two miles tall and I am chipping away at glaciers that come up to my knees. Did you know that when chunks of ice fall off a glacier it’s called ‘calving’?...
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It’s not about debating the dangers of BPA. It’s about stimulating Maine’s salon industry:
The political debate over bisphenol A is heating up in Maine after Gov. Paul LePage’s recent comments questioning whether the controversial chemical is as dangerous as many scientists claim. …
LePage said he has yet to see enough science to support a ban on BPA, a common...
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“It is February. Ice is general. One notices different degrees of ice.”
– Anne Carson, from “Some Afternoons She Does Not Pick Up the Phone,” a poem in Decreation. (via mcnallyjackson)
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The Wisconsin-Egypt comparisons have been making...
The “Wisconsin-Cairo” meme caught fire last week when Republican state representative Paul Ryan went on Morning Joe and said “it’s like Cairo has moved to Madison these days,” and right away I assumed this was strategic hyperbole: surely Ryan knew his remark would ricochet around the echo chamber, at least planting the seed in some people’s minds that the...
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WatchAn utterly delightful video about Nikki McClure, via the best (only?) Los Angeles-based pickling blog.
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Portlandia
A sketch in which there is a referendum on a referendum on referendums
A sketch in which a young man decides to surprise his girlfriend by screenprinting his tattoos onto a long-sleeved shirt for her to wear, not knowing that she is out getting his favorite screenprint tattooed on her arms
A sketch in which there is a cover band of a cover band
A sketch in which the editor of a local...
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On the agenda
Moose sirloin (am pondering marinade ideas)
Brussels sprouts (roasted with olive oil and coarse salt and shallot pepper)
Alice Medrich’s fallen chocolate souffle cake (rejiggering to be gluten-free, I’ll report back if it works)
A perfectly nice bottle of Merlot (Wine guy: “Well, this is my first time recommending a wine for moose….”)
I cannot make fun of...
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There are two kinds of people in this world
Those who say “I’m going to South by Southwest” and those who say “I’m going to South by.”
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Headless chickens. Owl in rehab. →
Headlines I have read and loved
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On Living Alone or Being a Freelancer or Both
diana-vilibert:
Extroverts are sometimes concerned for me. Don’t you spend a lot of time alone? Don’t you sometimes go full days without speaking to another person? I do, but this doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is when I realize, often mid-sentence, that while I may have not spoken to a single person all day, I have spoken to my cat. Often making some iteration of “Who’s a little muffin...
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“I seem almost always to be stuck in this little slice of history we call the...”
– There are certain loops I make on foot in the early mornings when I am trying to think (or not think) about things, and I thought of this passage today, as I was floundering along a hill on snowshoes through knee-high drifts, not unlike a dog or a bird or a lemming or a groundhog or any other...
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For the record, on frivolous legislation
Team wild blueberry pie.
