Still life: butternut & sausage soup with maple & cinnamon; mashed potatoes; porter. Pardon my dirty countertop ( Read more... )

I haven't done a feature set in months and months, but this should be an interesting event:


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First, Pitt Press is having a half-off sale through August 1. They publish some great poets. I think I have some Larry Levis and Maurice Kilwein Guevara in my future ( Read more... )

Hurricane Darby has formed in the Pacific! I haven't had a good hurricane since 2004. I wish no ill upon any coastal city, but really, I'm hoping for some headlines.

The first, per FOX News: The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Darby has maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.Of course, FOX also thinks Obama is a Muslim, so it's possible that I ( Read more... )

I've heard a couple people ask: What is FRACK? There are signs everywhere and information meetings being held around Syracuse right now. Here's a trailer for a documentary about it. It's a form of natural gas drilling that is destroying groundwater supplies all over the world, and they're trying to get permits to do it here in New York ( Read more... )

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I'm not a huge NBA fan, but I can get into the playoffs, especially if it's a Celtics-Lakers final. I'm not sure non-basketball fans will think this post-game interview is as hilarious as I think it is, but here it is ( Read more... )

From The Onion: Obama To Make Reassuring Eye Contact With Every Last American

I would like to publicly state that this article is factually incorrect, specifically  where it claims: Obama said during a rally at Rockland District High School. "To those Americans, I offer you this inspiring, confident gaze." Obama then stepped down from his podium, ( Read more... )

There's an article on Salon about journalistic ethics, stemming from this crazy Washington DC press party, where our Vice President goes down a waterslide in khakis and a polo shirt:



Yes, that's the man one heartbeat away from being the Leader of The Free World, chasing children with a super-soaker. I really do love Joe Biden, even though I have no ( Read more... )

I have a summer project list with more line items than I really have ambition for, but the first one was to refinish the back porch and build a gutter/rain barrel system to water the strawberry garden. Forgot to take (or accidentally erased?) a Before picture, as usual, but here's how it came out (the porch was a redwood-ish color before, but I ( Read more... )