I was sitting in my backyard yesterday, watching the grill and drinking a martini, when the neighbor kids accidentally threw their ball into my yard. more

A girl of six triggered a security scare at an airport - with a pink Bugs Bunny water pistol rammed full of sweets.

Bugs Bunny sparks security alert

Ok this is just dopey enough to appeal to me:

"18 poets performing original works
Wednesday on Minneapolis buses
and light-rail trains to expose people to their work."
Buses, trains are vehicles for poetry

BY TRAVIS COLEMAN

Commenting on MTV's ability to "succinctly....
convey a sense of" Douglas coupland's
"whole body of work in a series of
30 second commercials" that end with
"the huge, black lettered legend:
PLUG IN," Jessica Abel says, "I guess it fits.
Books for non-readers,
thoughts for non-thinkers."

This is in her book  Soundtrack which I am
reading and like a ( Read more... )

dude blows bubble rings underwater for japanese tv

Cross post on recent cooking, practicing and reading.

I have been neglecting to cross post.

Here's what I was writing today on
my web site:

The polite deadly sins


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Just was chatting with daughter in China. She landed safely and has even set up a blog. There is a 12 hour difference. She was sitting in a cafe. She said that Wikipedia is blocked from there. There was a message she tried to send me that wouldn't come through on the chat MSN. She thought that might be censors.

She has been able to extend her visa ( Read more... )

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Getting on a plane in a few hours for Phoenix and then Detroit. All is well. Elizabeth is in the air between NY and Beijing. After she hits Beijing she has another eleven hours to Cumming. We have a had a good visit out here in Calif, cramming 12 months worth of connection time with fam in one week. My grand-daughter is just getting used to me, ( Read more... )