Today is Ira Glass’birthday. I had a post stirring in my head to salute the American hero. But instead, I’ve been attacked from within by yesterday’s oysters. I’m sick. It’s an early bedtime for me. But if I were not sick, and if it were summer, I’d be carrying peaches. Juicy ones!
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Ira Glass’birthday
Posted in current on March 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Robot Presidents.
Posted in current, historyish, places, tagged Abraham Lincoln, Bush, cotton candy, Disney, No Child Left Behind, obama, orlando, papa's beard, Robots, Springfield on February 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here in France, the kids are on vacation for the next two weeks because why the hell not? It’s February! Let’s stop going to school! It will be a nice contrast to the three weeks they took off in December and January, and the two weeks they will take off in April. That all being [...]
My brother’s cup of coffee.
Posted in current on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I thought in the wake of the economic downturn from happier times, I’d post a piece my vegetarian brother wrote a few years back about the military industrial complex in America, rising corporate greed, the underdeveloped of poorer countries by the World Bank, the backwards geography of our daily needs, and the stirring uprising in [...]
Poet Soldier.
Posted in current, historyish, places, tagged chicago, christmas, frankfurt, iraq, poet, soldier, sullivan ballou, the civil war, union, wilfred owen on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not too long ago, I took a flight from Frankfurt to Chicago just before Christmas. Apparently, the U.S. still has left over military bases around Frankfurt, quite a few in fact, just to keep an eye on those dreadful Germans. I got a chance to talk to a couple of America’s finest on the plane [...]
Because I got nothing else…
Posted in current, tagged inauguration, legos, obama on January 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I cried a lot today. Today was the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
