Tuesday,
March 29th, 2005
Spring is in the air, and that means that seagull season is about to start again. During seagull season (which is pretty much spring, summer and fall), the giant, mutant seagulls that roam the streets and rooftops of Brighton get extra aggressive and star…
Sunday,
March 27th, 2005
Behold! My first attempt to make eggs benedict - and it was a success! Okay, I haven’t totally cracked the egg poaching process yet; when I drop my eggs in the water, I tend to wind up with a little globule of yolk surrounded by filaments of white t…
Sunday,
March 27th, 2005
As a follow-up to my blog entry from earlier in the month, here are some more examples of innocent library books that have been defiled and scarred by cruel slashes from various implements of writing. This first example is particularly remarkable: it̵…
Sunday,
March 27th, 2005
Is it really that hard to remember what chapter you’re supposed to read?…
Wednesday,
March 23rd, 2005
This little shrine is located on the road into Bisbee, Arizona. It was apparently built by two brothers who went off to fight in World War II and constructed the shrine upon their safe return home. Someone lights the candles every evening. On a recent nig…
Wednesday,
March 23rd, 2005
Though I have not seen "Sideways", I have become a big fan of pinot noir, particular the ones I’ve had from Oregon. We went through several bottles of the Big Fire pinot noir at a lovely (and now, sadly, non-existent) restaurant in St. Aug…
Wednesday,
March 23rd, 2005
My mom and dad and I were on our way to Tucson when we stopped at the Cafe Sonoita for a bit of lunch. Despite our initial intentions to eat something light and healthy, we all succumbed to the lure of the green chile cheeseburger. I was so famished befor…
Saturday,
March 19th, 2005
"Several Imax theaters, including some in science museums, are refusing to show movies that mention the subject [of evolution] - or the Big Bang or the geology of the earth - fearing protests from people who object to films that contradict biblical d…
Tuesday,
March 1st, 2005
How much of a half-wit do you have to be to think it’s okay to deface library books like this? And this is aboslutely nothing - I’ve checked out some books that were so full of highlighting, underlining, circles, arrows, and marginal comments…