I like Google's Joan Miró look today, in the style of the Catalán painter who was born on this day 113 years ago, in Barcelona:


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"Sushi and Rev. Moon"

Here's the first paragraph of the article:

On a mission from their leader, five young men arrived in Chicago to open a little fish shop on Elston Avenue. Back then, in 1980, people of their faith were castigated as "Moonies" and called cult members. Yet the Japanese and American friends worked grueling hours and slept in a ( Read more... )

today marcelhenry told me about this article. here's how it starts:

The Bush Administration announced last week that the nation is no longer losing wetlands--as long as you consider golf course water hazards to be wetlands.

Really.

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I just decided today that I am going to try to read one article a day from my favorite Spanish newspaper and make a list of new vocab from it to study, to try to build my Spanish fluency back up to and beyond what it used to be. I'm kind of excited about that. It's something I've wanted to do for quite some time, and thinking "Today I'll read an ( Read more... )

So I have a little bit of a girl crush. (It's cool, the boyfriend knows already.) Lisa Loeb. It's not really a crush, just an admiration of sorts. Maybe it's more I just kind of want to BE her a little. She's all stylish and has cool glasses and a nice voice and can play the guitar... She has a little reality show going on (I know, I know, * ( Read more... )

Referring to the beginning of his acquisition of French adventures, David Sedaris writes,

I'd hoped the language might come on its own, the way it comes to babies, but people don't talk to foreigners the way they talk to babies. They don't hypnotize you with bright objects and repeat the same words over and over, handing out little treats when ( Read more... )

A soccer team in Rome has adopted the bass line to "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes as a sort of cheer when they play--on The World today, they had a recording of approximately 30,000 Roma soccer fans doing just that. If you go here, to March 9th's show, you can listen to the story (it's short) and that version (among others) of the song.

Well, shite...I'm bummed I didn't know this was coming up at Town Hall:

**SOLD OUT**Lecture: Gloria Steinem ( Read more... )

How do I add a link to my journal to a previous entry in my own journal? I'm not finding that info in the FAQ area on lj...