Here are some not-necessarily-Labor Day-themed links, dear readers! Enjoy!
Laboriousness Day
Aug 30, ’07
6:21 AM
Summer’s labor is over, dear readers! Now it’s vacation-time! Amy & I are heading up to Toronto for a few days to visit friends and family, do some fine dining, and see the sights! We promise to take plenty of pix. Unfortunately, I can’t convince her that we should follow Michael Cook’s footsteps and make [...]
From the Editor: Idiot’s Alchemy
Aug 29, ’07
10:12 AM
(Sorry I haven’t written much lately, dear readers. I’ve been awfully busy at work, and pretty burned-out by the time I’m home. But I’ll wrap up most of it today, and then Amy & I are off on a mini-vacation. More later! Meanwhile, here’s this issue’s From the Editor column.) Idiots’ Alchemy Making money out [...]
Blended family
Aug 28, ’07
7:38 PM
I leave the food-blogging to my wife. I’m a guy so I have a new favorite kitchen-oriented site: Will it blend?
Go (not very far) ape!
Aug 27, ’07
8:11 PM
Here’s a story about an escaped orangutan at the Atlanta Zoo. There are several odd aspects to this one. Which one do you think is the strangest: a) That thee orangutan just wandered around about a 100 feet from his cage for half an hour, before being tranked and taken back to his pen, b) [...]
Will Rogaine put Cal Ripken on its packaging?
Aug 26, ’07
9:22 AM
When a theme crops up for the third time on this blog, it’s time for me to create a new category for it. In that spirit, I now offer up “Adventures in Wheaties,” which is a perfect compliment to my “Adventures in Gin” category. I’ll use this category to chronicle my love/hate relationship with America’s [...]
But Michael Vick can’t catch a break
Aug 24, ’07
6:59 AM
Great article in the NYTimes today about Pakistan’s supreme court ruling on Nawaz Sharif’s right to return to the country and campaign for high office. Now I’m not praising the article because it shows how the weakening of Musharraf’s support has led to an independent-minded judiciary. Nor am I praising it because of its deft [...]
Happy Birthday, Deb!
Aug 24, ’07
4:05 AM
(I know: It’s a much more conventional pic than the ones Paul (right) posted today. . .)
Still Ill
Aug 23, ’07
8:33 AM
Michael Blowhard offers up a lovely meditation on age and the relationship of body and mind (okay, soul). This musing is occasioned by MB’s participation in beach volleyball during a long weekend. At 53 and surviving cancer, he explores a number of metaphors for the relationship “we” have with our bodies, and how those relationships [...]
