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The Joke
I am working an article about Czech humor and political resistance, and so I am re-reading Milan Kundera's "The Joke." Great book, but I feel so pretentious sitting in public and reading it. I think this is because it was one of those show off-y books which I read as an undergraduate at least in part to convince earnest undergraduate girls that I ( Read more... ) -
Red hats
I know its been forever since I posted, more on that shortly, but now an amusing aside. We were at the National Gallery of Art and ran into a large contingent of the Red Hat society, a group of women who get together to go to events and museums while wearing red hats.
One of the group had a huge diamond pin on her hat which read "Vice Queen." She ( Read more... ) -
15 movies
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Why we love the Internets
My great grandfather and the meat tenderer, now on google.
Its weird how these things come floating by from time to time.
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And then it was the couch
My wife was going on about a friend of ours the other day. She told me not only is she taller (she is quite tall), employed full-time (she is an RN), has a better house (and fully renovated), but she keeps everything in her home spotless (her kids are actually neater than we are ( Read more... ) -
Buzz verbing
I was at a conference today which was full of what I call Buzz Verbing. That's where you turn a buzzword noun into a verb in order to indicate that you plan to do it ( Read more... ) -
You just never know
There was a terrible accident on the D.C. metro this evening, two trains collided and a bunch of people are dead. My whole family was on that same train yesterday, and I am on it tomorrow and Wednesday. -
And Loving for all
A quick scene from my life.
Standing in a neighbor's yard on Saturday afternoon, beer in hand, very suburban. Its a party for Loving Day, which celebrates the end of legal restrictions on inter-racial marriage. Mazey doesn't believe it was ever true that her friend's parents could not have married.
Jim and Jim, the gay couple from across the ( Read more... )
