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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Fitzgerald decoded
I’m a little disappointed with the notes to the LOA edition of The Beautiful and Damned. We get no help with “a seidel of beer” (p. 516) (nothing more complicated than a drinking glass, but still); most of the song … Continue reading
Posted in Words Words Words
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O.F.
Via The Morning News, John Adams gives tips on getting through the first rehearsal: Be flexible and take every opportunity to talk to the players. Sometimes you can make an on-the-spot change that will make an instrumentalist’s day. Other times, … Continue reading
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CSA: community supported art
This sounds way cool: Kelly Rand reports on Project Dispatch, a group of about twenty D.C. area artists selling small works of art by subscription—$15 to $40 a month. Sort of locavory for the new art collector. The project, organized … Continue reading
Posted in Art and Architecture, Economics and Business
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Wacky mushrooms
Macrotyphula juncea at Botany Photo of the Day.
Posted in Natural Sciences
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Meat pollution
Elizabeth Kirkwood on the very public decision by Britain’s top climate adviser, Nicholas Stern, to stop eating meat as a means of mitigating global warming. Strong stuff: Why are we not outraged by what the meat industry and those who … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Climate Change
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It shouldn’t be so easy
A recent run of fine poems at Poetry Daily, inculding “The Welcome Chamber,” by G.C. Waldrep.
Posted in Poetry
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There’s no “I” in “theater”
We are heading to the wire!! Make those reservations, see those shows, do those ballots! And be thankful that there’s no chance of WATCH being sold to Dan Snyder, because y’all are a great team! —Weekly report to WATCH adjudicators … Continue reading
Posted in Quotable
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Silver Line progress report: 9
More construction activity at the Wiehle Avenue site: a pair of cranes, lots of jersey wall, and ponding from yesterday’s downpours.
Posted in Transit in D.C.
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Siever, Sand
As an assignment for my geology class, I prepared a book report on Sand, by the aptronymically-named Raymond Siever.
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The Laramie Project epilogue: an update: 5
David Hoffman reports on the Q&A after our reading last week.
Posted in Backstage
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Silver Line progress report: 8
Via Greater Greater Washington, Lisa Rein and photographers check in on the tunneling at Tysons Corner. They’ve dug eighteen feet, so far, through Tt5, the upland terrace of sand and gravel that comprises Freedom Hill.
Posted in Transit in D.C.
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Perennial
Richard Harris visits Wes Jackson’s Land Institute, and also talks with plant breeder Lee De Haan. As the silver-haired Kansan [Jackson] is fond of saying: If you’re working on a problem you can solve in your own lifetime, you’re not … Continue reading
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At the limit
… [Winnie said,] “I think it’s a mistake to lose one’s sense of death, even one’s fear of death. Isn’t death the boundary we need? Doesn’t it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to … Continue reading
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The Laramie Project epilogue: an update: 4
As a postscript, I would like to offer a correction to the name of “Nellie Taylor [sic] Ross,” the path-breaking Wyoming governor that Republican Man refers to in Moment: Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Her name is Nellie Tayloe Ross.
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Piedmont and Coastal Plain
After a gloomy, drizzly start, the wet weather held off and we had a great field trip, led by Joe Marx, exploring several sites of geological interest in the Four Mile Run and Holmes Run stream valleys in Arlington County … Continue reading
Posted in In the Field
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