It occurs to me that here I am, sitting in Norwich, without any legitimate explication of how I got here, what it is like, or what I'm doing here. (What I'm NOT doing here: the women.) So I will attempt to address that here ( Read more... )

I'm going to conduct a short thought experiment ( Read more... )

Things I've Learned in London After Five Days-ish ( Read more... )

It is technically Thursday, so that means it is three days until I leave the country ( Read more... )

So. First Ravens preseason game last night. I go through Football Withdrawal Syndrome (yes, it's a verified psychological disorder) between roughly mid-January and late July, excepting that brief, two-day hiatus known as Draft Weekend; and March 1, which is the start of the free-agency period. It's great to start another season, especially after ( Read more... )

Interesting film playing at The Charles: "The War Tapes." Follows three soldiers from a New Hampshire National Guard unit in Iraq; each soldier is fitted with a Handycam and told to record his experiences. The picture that's painted is rather informative. Virtually everything is run by Halliburton or its subsidiary, KBR; the unit (a company of ( Read more... )

So tonight was Badger's 21st birthday.  And, yeah, I'll admit I'm writing this with three beers in me.  But I am anything but drunk, and there were a lot of things about stuff that I just didn't like.  Thoughts ( Read more... )

A short article in this week's Newsweek discusses the rise of the use of hip-hop as a means for preachers to carry the Christian message to their congregations, given the popularity of rap as a musical and poetic form. Of course, the strictures of the urban-lyric art form require, in some instances, that the archaic English of King James Scripture ( Read more... )

So we've got the second group of conferees in Carlisle. They came in yesterday from Dulles--23 folks from the Walnut Valley school district in California. Twenty miles east of LA, they say. The superintendent is here, along with administrators, principals, and teachers from the various schools in the district, which apparently has around 60.000 ( Read more... )

It still hasn't completely hit me that it's less than a month until I schlep myself down to Dulles for a flight across the Atlantic to London. Kaydi's post from yesterday or the day before sort of brought that home. I'm really excited about the whole thing, but I have to admit to feeling some trepidation. No, that's not the right word...stomach ( Read more... )