So, I went up to Chabot stables yesterday to "audition" for a horse lease. Everything went great for a while - the owner liked my demeanor and seat and aids, the horse was happy to have me on my back ( Read more... )

another bizarre incident in the course of my life, the separation of work and play, of old life and new. listening to MPR The Current, MPLS's supreme radio station, and the announcer played Rogue Wave's "Fantasies," and then she came back on and said that Evan had died a week and a half ago in a house fire ( Read more... )

Long time lurker, latent poster, here I am again on my own. Peter is in Greenfield attending/overseeing a city council meeting, I am relaxing on the deck, listening to Mozart's K.191 Bassoon Sonata after eating red finn potatoes and a tiny perfect head of cauliflower from the farmer's market ( Read more... )

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Yesterday afternoon for a wee bit of time I drove Elly and Ozzie and the puppy around so Elly could take pictures of the Macarthur Maze for one of her first projects for graduate school, which involved negative spaces that make a space more of a space or something like that, and which also involved transportation systems I believe, so we went ( Read more... )

last kitchen sink meeting.

marx brothers-like antics ensued with subscriber list.

we drank beer.

the magazine is beautiful.

this is so, so sad.

kaya's letter from the ed? rocks. in a sad, love-filled way.

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I just stopped working at the charter school where I'd been teaching an afterschool class since December. It was just too much. Too many jobs, too much juggling, too much grief. I mean, I love working with kids, but I was going nuts. For several days for the past several months this has been my schedule ( Read more... )

1) It socks it to America for its role as policeforce of the world, but in a less obvious and didactic way than done in Children of Men.

2) The ensemble cast of hero/ines are hilariously bumbling and awesome.

3) This trailer does nothing to convey how funny this film is. So go see it.

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4) Park Hyun-seo, the wee heroine who is captured by the ( Read more... )