Rob and I are eating dinner at a hip little café (Northstar in Clintonville). A song comes on over the speakers that I recognize and I try to place it. I think it's from the late 60's or early '70's. rfunk thinks it's from the early '60's ( Read more... )

The short "break" story on Morning Edition this morning was that Starbucks is now offering a "Short" eight-ounce size coffee for $1.00 with free refills. But it is only available in Seattle. Isn’t this where I came in? Isn’t this how coffee was sold 25 years ago? In an eight-ounce cup for a dollar with free refills ( Read more... )

As a former (if poor) Latin student, I'm loving this week's horoscope from Rob Brezsny. My favorite is: Sane ego te vocavi. Forsitan apedictum tuum desit. (I did call. Maybe your answering machine is broken ( Read more... )

Today I learned that, in the Yes song "Roundabout", mountains come out of the sky. Not marmots, like I have been hearing (and singing) for years. Mountains.

Because mountains falling out of the sky makes soooo much more sense!

( Complete lyric, if you are interested )

Last night rfunk put a potato in the oven to bake, and we talked in the living room while it cooked. Eventually the oven timer went off, as they do, but since he was planning to leave it in longer he wasn’t in any hurry to run to the oven. With this particular timer, if you don’t turn it off after its initial alarm, it beeps periodically to remind you ( Read more... )

Especially for unnamed525 and yoga lovers.

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It was one of those perfect set-ups that you wait for, and it was almost blown.

It happened a few years ago when a few people had gathered at a friend's house. The hostess proffered a bowl of nuts, saying "Anybody want a peanut?"I just stood there, frozen. I knew I knew that line, and that there was an appropriate witty response, but for the life ( Read more... )