Susan Letcher '00: The Night Before Christmas, hiker style
Every year around this time, I think about Christmas 2000. My older sister and I were hiking the Appalachian Trail, holed up in a shelter in Virginia on a cold Christmas night. I wrote this little...
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Erik Brooks: Harts Pass No. 131
Happy holidays from Harts Pass Comics! The strip's a little different this week as it moved right on up to the newspaper masthead. With 12-16 inches of snow 'round the valley last week and the lights...
View ArticleCheryl Klein: An Update: Stephanie Trimberger and THE RUBY HEART
Earlier this fall, I asked my Seattle-area blog readers to go out to a signing for Stephanie Trimberger's The Ruby Heart -- a book Arthur and I worked on with her as part of the Make-a-Wish program, as...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: HIATUS
hi·a·tus /haɪˈeɪtəs/ Pronunciation[hahy-ey-tuhs] –noun, plural -tus·es, -tus.a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc. any gap or opening. an indefinite period of time...
View ArticleNaomi Dietzel Hershiser '99: Happy Winter!
Winter Solstice... the ray of hope in our darkest days. In science, as in life, it may be that as we stand on the precipice, looking at the beginning of months of hardship and trial, things start to...
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Margaret Taylor: greencat365
Happy No Apocalypse Day, everybody!Secondly, I’m signing up to participate in the Mad Reviewer Reading Challenge. You may have heard of The Mad Reviewer, as she’s guest-posted on STandG a couple of...
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Kevin Draper '10: Diss Guy, Miss Guy Vol. 19
Diss Guy: Josh HowardTen months ago, Diss founder Jacob Greenberg and I were in the middle of an identity crisis. Well, a blog-identity crisis. We were going over various re-design options, one of...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Don’t Trip: 4 Dizzying Rooms by 1 Surrealist Spatial Artist
[ By WebUrbanist in Art& Installation & Sound. ] Like some kind of strange spatial magician, Kyung Woo Han turns conventional furniture, fixtures, doors and windows into otherworldly scenes...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Doug Patterson
I just remembered his name.I was a sophomore in high school when I knew him.He used to tease me, call me“Leonard Leech”… he lookedlike Zippy the Pinhead physically…big soft body andpointy head…he...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Spontaneous 12-21-2012
Hello!Is it today again?Does the sun still shine,does the moon still glow,do flowers still seem to bloom?Well......do you think we could....maybe....APPRECIATE THAT NOW?....maybe that IS the...
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Kevin Draper '10: Gunz, Yo.
“You know, a hibachi grill gets real hot. That’s what my shot’s like, so I’ve been calling it that: ‘Welcome to the hibachi’.”- Gilbert Arenas (2005)“I’m on fire, I’m on fire. Me too, me too.”- Sage...
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Alicia Hutchison Steffann '94: Guest Napper #139: CAT NAP (really)
This blog has been going for years now. How can it have taken us this long to post a cat nap?I might consider putting my head at the other end.Dozing dogs, we’ve had aplenty. Why not a furry...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: What I Think
You don’t want to knowwhat I think, becausewhat I think is so differentfrom Dallas Cowboyssales at Best Buyshopping spree mentalbreakdowns at the mall…So:Don’t ask.
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Ken Wedding's Reading Blog: It's not nice to fool an old man
A month ago I picked up Christopher Fowler'sTen Second Staricase at the Northfield Library. It's subtitled "A Bryant & May Mystery." Reading it was a confusing and slow project.I suppose I...
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David Ocker '73: Jinglemonics
As my contribution to home front morale in the continuing War Against Christmas this is the first of two musical offerings - the annual Mixed Meters composition based on the familiar pagan hymn Jingle...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: End Of The Road
I went down whereThe dead tree standsAn owl on a limbWith a cold blue stare.Nowhere further to goI stood there lookingIn my socks, shoes and hairMy skull a bare wire.Nowhere to go, that magicFeeling,...
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Benjamin Lenzner: an embassy in canberra
On Australia Day, January 26, 1972, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy was set up across from Parliament House in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Since that day in 1972, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy has...
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Darth Bitsy '06: Hey who is still reading this?
Let me know in the comments (screened)!This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth. There are comments on that post. Please comment there using OpenID.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Creative Fuel: 12 Appealingly Painted Oil Storage Tanks
[ By Steve in Art& Street Art & Graffiti. ] Most oil storage tank farms are big, bland and boring, classic examples of form following function with the occasional company logo affixed to break...
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