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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Chocolate tubes
Myxomycetes make another appearance, in this case Stemonitis sp., at Botany Photo of the Day.
Posted in Natural Sciences
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Tales from the Golden Age
Cory Doctorow reviews I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets!, a collection of comics by Fletcher Hanks, who is something of a Harry Stephen Keeler figure in the history of sequential art.
Posted in Comics
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Kaplan, again
Via Robot Wisdom auxiliary, Jerry V. Haines is developing the World’s Least Helpful Phonetic Alphabet. I am reminded of a venerable Mike Nichols and Elaine May routine from the early sixties that my mother and I listened to incessantly on … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Words Words Words
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Now I feel safe
Commonwealth officials are cracking down on restaurants serving sangria prepared according to old-fashioned recipes, reports Jessica Gould. La Tasca [a Spanish-themed restaurant in Clarendon] manager Daniela Schenone says the restaurant’s two Virginia outposts stopped serving brandy with their sangría about … Continue reading
Posted in Local News
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Step by step
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted to pay the county’s share of Metro construction through Tysons Corner, Reston, and on to Dulles airport, rejecting the arguments of developers and some county residents that the tunnel option through Tysons warrants … Continue reading
Posted in Transit in D.C.
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Checking in
My girlfriend avoids receiving the “Dude. Update.” message with two new posts, one of which explains the fine points of the World’s Most Boring Autoimmune Disorder.
Posted in Yeah Yeah Yeah
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Sinner update
We move rehearsals on to the stage later this week, out of the newly tiled and cleaned-up karate studio, and I am really looking forward to seeing the set that Bruce has designed and John built—the renderings look fabulous. John … Continue reading
Posted in Backstage
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Dead Man’s Cell Phone
I know someone who once found himself in the awkward situation of having to tell our mutual friends that one of our number had died unexpectedly. That’s sort of the situation that Jean (sad sack Polly Noonan) finds herself in … Continue reading
Friday night fun
—Number 5, please. —My name is David Gorsline, and this is from State Fair. After years of protesting, “I don’t do musicals, if you heard me sing, you would understand,” I walked into RCP’s auditons for Guys and Dolls armed … Continue reading
Posted in Backstage
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Very like a whale
Rebecca Stott praises the great 19th-century pre-post-modernist novel Moby-Dick: It is a creature quite unto itself: a great library of learning contained within the belly of a whale, a key to all mythologies, a joke, a quest, a witch-hunt, a … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Fiction
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So long, Don
Don Herbert, Mr. Wizard of my childhood, has passed away. When I was about nine years old, my hometown television station replaced Herbert’s show with some humdrum public affairs program: I fired off a snarky note to the editor of … Continue reading
Posted in In Memoriam
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Crooked CA watch: 3
Stephen Richards, former sales head of CA, has arranged to pay $29 million in restitution.
Posted in Computing and Mathematics, Economics and Business
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At the park: 9
It’s time to hang up my waders for the season, although we have one nest still active to be checked in the next week or so. This morning was a day for surprises, not all of them happy. When I … Continue reading
Posted in In the Field
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Summer of ’42
Theater patrons of a certain age will remember Herman Raucher’s slightly scandalous film from 1971, a memoir of sexual awakening and the loss of of a certain kind of innocence. On a New England summer resort island, a stripling teenager … Continue reading
