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I HATE bullies
Kate has had to deal with all sorts of bullies in her time. At her elementary school, she was bullied for being white. I encouraged her to understand her peers and sympathize with them, that they must be so frustrated in their home lives to lash out the way they did toward her ( Read more... ) -
Goal Reached: Read More Books Project
Back in January I set a goal for myself to read twice the books I read in 2010. That goal was 56 books. By May I'd read 5 more books than I'd read in 2010 and I'm happy to report that as of my return to Seattle from the Get Pramas the Fuck Out of Texas trip, I've met my yearly goal of 56 books. From here on out, additional books are just gravy.
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Pasta Bolognese
Or: spagettia ja jauhelihakastiketta for my Finnish friends ( Read more... ) -
A Celebration of Chris Pramas
It's birthday number 42 today. 42, the nerdtastic answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. A beautifully semetrical, even number: divisible by two... he and I. A number that signals he's now been an "adult" for as long as it took him to reach that previously magical number of 21 ( Read more... ) -
Nikchick Past and Present
A few nights ago I went looking for something in my blue file box. The Blue File Box began in the early 90s cataloging items from my history, such as it was, and I was looking for one item in particular. I didn't find it but the result of my searching meant that there were things spread all over the place as if the Blue File Box had vomited up ( Read more... ) -
What comes from reading
I've been thinking about a longer blog post about how my recent reading binge has been influencing my thinking on current events. I haven't quite gotten around to composing my thoughts so in the meantime I'll just share this quote from Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel, Red Harvest:
For forty years old Elihu Willsson ... had owned Personville, heart, ( Read more... ) -
Reading
Years ago I set a generic goal for myself to "Read More Books" and though I marked that goal achieved quite a while ago, I have continued to try to improve. I did not count any books I started but abandoned (surprisingly many) in these totals, though I suppose when added together they amount to many additional pages read to no real result. Ah well ( Read more... ) -
Bachelor Kitchen
Chris is a thrifty bachelor. He can feed himself and has a few tried and true recipes under his belt. His kitchen is outfitted with a single cookbook, Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything, which is a perfectly reasonable resource. Still, it's quite a bit more sparse than my usual digs ( Read more... ) -
Snow Days
Tonight should be game night but I preemptively called things off yesterday after seeing the state of the roads. I'd been planning to go to an event on Capitol Hill to benefit LGBT youth with some friends but the roads were in no shape for travel so we bailed and experience has taught me that with cold weather predicted to continue we'd still be ( Read more... )
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