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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Reuse it
Via DCist: DC’s new fee on disposable grocery bags means an additional hardship for poor residents. Bread for the City is organizing efforts to collect donations of reusable bags and distribute them to the people who need them most.
Posted in Philanthropy
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Phone home
Last one out the office on Christmas Eve. They’re moving my workspace early next month, so this snapshot will serve as memento.
Posted in Like Life
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My year in hikes and field trips, 2009
Taking a couple of classes, plus a concerted effort to spend more time in the field and documenting it, means I have lots of field trip notes this year. Wolf Rock, Chimney Rock, Catoctin Mountain Park, Maryland Blue Ridge, Ridge … Continue reading
Posted in In the Field
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My year in cities, 2009
I got out a bit more than last year, albeit more for chores than pleasure. Overnight stays this year: Sacramento, Calif., and suburbs (3 trips) Brooklyn, N.Y. Berkeley County, W. Va. 2008′s list.2007′s list. 2006′s list. 2005′s list.
Posted in Like Life
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McCarthy decoded
In the course of tracking down some of the more obscure vocabulary in Blood Meridian (obscure, unless you’re a Scots-descended horseman living in what is now the American Southwest), I ran across the interesting word scantlin or scantling (“I got … Continue reading
Posted in Words Words Words
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Old Zemblan
We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping, laughing. We take it for granted so simply that in a sense, … Continue reading
Posted in Quotable
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Still a lot of Curve
My iTunes signature (courtesy of Jason Freeman) has changed a little bit since the last one I made, in 2005, but not that much. The caveat: songs purchased through the iTMS are not included in the mix.
Posted in Music
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Some lists: 7
Hunh. I don’t dislike John Cusack movies, but I am good at crosswords. (Via kottke.org.)
Posted in Prose Fiction
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He wrote the book
A belated memorial to Paul Samuelson, who died on 13 December at the age of 94. From The Economist‘s obituary: “To understand economics you need to know not only fundamentals but also its nuances,” Mr Samuelson would explain. “When someone … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and Business, In Memoriam
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Slow melt
The sun did indeed come out again. In fact, I’m waiting on it to work on a stubborn icy patch on the sidewalk between the townhouse rows; this is the place where the northwest wind whips through from Saskatchewan. At … Continue reading
Posted in Like Life
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August: Osage County
Tracy Letts is working here on a larger canvas than his earlier Killer Joe and Bug, but he has not left behind his signature deadpan violence, both verbal and physical. The tour of August: Osage County brings the darkly comic … Continue reading
Avoid the brown stuff
Live from Snowpocalypse ’09: I shoveled out about a foot of accumulation in front of my house, and the snow is still falling. The hour-to-hour forecast says we’re going to get another jolt this evening.
Posted in Like Life
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Prior art
Oh, dear: Samuel G. Bailey is suing Paramount Pictures and other entities, claiming that a screenplay of his was plagiarized in the making of the 2006 film Dreamgirls, as Melissa Castro reports. The story doesn’t indicate whether Tom Eyen is … Continue reading
Posted in NOC
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TMLMTBGB: 3
The most effective pieces in this year’s offerings (seen on December 8) don’t have much to do with one another. Some depend on Eliza Burmeister’s goofy gymnasticism, like “Zen and the Art of Flight,” or the politically charged “Dear NRA … Continue reading
