It's hard to believe, I know. Not only are the wires burning with presidential election news, but candidates are lining up by the dozen to prepare for the races for the Tennessee General Assembly and the United States Congress...
I hope you've been watching the PBS special based on the concert that's all about Paul Simon. We actually just stumbled upon it by accident, but it has been a real treat to watch and listen to all these artists pay...
So, today when "All Things Considered" was running some story about a teenager that interested me not, and neither Jack-FM nor The Mountain was playing a song for which I cared, I hit one of my admittedly lower-tier station preset...
While I should have been working on my SIP... I was reading Jane Kenyon poetry instead. Pardon and Credo are sections from a poem titled Hanging it Out with Melancholy. 7. Pardon A piece of burned meat wears my clothes, speaks in my voice, dispatches obligations haltingly,...
Alan Paton, Tales from a Troubled Land, Charles Scribner's Sons: New York, 1961. Nadine Gordimer, Selected Stories, Penguin Books: New York, 1983. "The woman smiled and bowed, and van Rensburg, in a strained voice that suddenly came out of nowhere, said, 'our...
Our nephew, Preston, was a little shocked to learn that he would be gaining another cousin. Benjamin was a little slap happy and confused to learn of the news. We'll blame the juice.Stephen on the other hand was quite...
I have been feeling the onset of pregnancy hunger in these last two weeks. No strange cravings yet but all things citrus, cherries, Mexican and strawberry are especially yummy. Oh and cucumbers. It's nice to smell food without vomiting finally....
When we visit toilets, bathrooms, hotel rooms, changing rooms, etc. How many of you know for sure that the seemingly ordinary mirror hanging on the wall is a real mirror, or actually a 2-way mirror i.e., they can see you,...
About two thirds of the way up Barcelona's La Rambla, running perpendicular to the road where the rest of the vendors set up, is Mercat St. Josep La Boqueria, a huge open air food market with a great mixture of...
So this photo is from a month and a half ago by now. I've just been slacking on posting anything new. Truth be told I have been quite frustrated and feeling unmotivated to do anything lately. I am finally...
I got my Police CD a few weeks ago (it was released on June 5th). It is the 2 disc set and it came with a fun vintage poster that I had to quickly keep Fuller from messing with. Fuller and...
The Tennessee Green Party will host a Southeast Regional Campaign School on August 24-26, 2007, at the Ecovillage Training Center on The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee. The schedule is still in formulation, but the core curriculum will take place on...
Apologies for all the chaos. We're doing some serious re-working of my blog. The first time in a couple of years, so there's just a lot of weird stuff to sort through. If you're at all curious as to the...
I was really glad to see Elizabeth Edwards call into Hardball and take on Ann Coulter for her recent comments about presidential candidate John Edwards. About 6 months ago AC called JE a "faggot" while speaking at the Conservative Political...
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I posted it here at Acton's blog. From the article: More than half of Americans ages 17 to 29 — 54 percent — say they intend to vote for a Democrat for president in 2008. They share with the public at...
A few days ago, this story the net. It purports to be an analysis of the class divisions apparent in the ways that people join either Facebook or MySpace. The first time I read it something struck...
A couple of weeks ago, on our third attempt, our paper was one of five (out of 19) papers admitted into the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. The panel's recommendation reads as follows:The Pulse 7 yes; 3 no This paper is much improved...
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