Sunday Reads: The phrase “brain-eating” never makes a good headline…
French Chocolate Poster, 1898 Good Sunday Morning! Ah, hope everyone is having a magnificent weekend. Yesterday, Wonk the Vote served up two awesome posts…here and here, if you missed them. Also,...
View ArticleSunday Reads: 2012 is finally here!
Good Sunday Morning! Oh wow, I am so freaking happy that 2011 is over! These last two weeks have been long and agonizing, since both kids have been home from school…but they go back tomorrow! Yeah!...
View ArticleZombies and Vultures and Pipelines, Oh My
The zombies seem to be winning the war against the living. We have zombie banks, zombie politicians [think Rick Perry], zombie policy—free market fundamentalism preached as an untried economic theory....
View ArticleThere Will Be Blood
If you listen to the GOP, you’d be convinced that the WH, Democrats in general and crazed environmentalists specifically had nixed the Keystone Pipeline out of sheer orneriness or a deep-seated hatred...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Old Negatives, Ancient Water and Debtors’ Prisons
Good Morning! Can you spot a trend in the title of this morning’s post? Today I will bring you links that are about old things, or about how we as a nation are going backwards in time…either way, I...
View ArticleWednesday, the day after….Morning reads.
Edward Gorey Good morning everyone. Horrible weather is making its way across the US, so first…before we get to any reads, make sure you keep an eye out for bad storms. Intellicast – Current Radar in...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Back in the saddle again…
Good Morning! Hey, it’s been nice to have a week off…I haven’t read much news items lately, in fact I don’t really have any idea what’s going on in the world outside of Banjoville. (Just this last...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: Booklist, Playgrounds and Lawsuits
Magic Circle, Stonehenge Librarian via Pinterest Good Morning Running a little late this morning, so thanks for bearing with me… I want to start this post off with a few links to end of year book...
View ArticleSunday Reads: Let them drink tap water…
Good Morning I used to think of Twitter as a stream of consciousness thing, where you type out a thought that comes to you…abstract, free-form and unassuming. It just floated out there in the mass twit...
View ArticleThursday: A Mixed Bag of Reads
Good Morning!! I’m going to begin with a quirky story about a stolen painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Renoir painting allegedly sold at flea market returning to museum. From the LA Times: A small...
View ArticleWednesday Reads: History according to Lego and other things
Good Morning If you want to kill some time today, check out these images of Lego greatness: Over a thousand pictures here: Lego Art on Pinterest There is even a Klimt in this one: Lego mania on...
View ArticleSunday Reads : Career Girls
Good Morning The proverbial shit has hit the fan, and whatever happens next is speculation at this point. As for what I think? I think we are f’d. That could be my negativity and depression talking....
View ArticleWednesday: Banjoville, Georgia. A microcosm of Trump Nation.
Good Afternoon This little section of delight in the North Georgia Mountains…I’ve spoken before of the cross-section of folks who live and breed in the town of Banjoville. Simple kinds of folk, why the...
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