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“Soylent Green Is People!”

I’ve always harbored suspicions that Oregonians were a bit, well…rigorous in their adherence to green orthodoxy. But I had no + more

Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow

For those who breathlessly await each new post on the last word, I have some bad news. This Thursday, the + more

Marauding Pigs!

Because it’s Friday—the 13th—I bring you a chilling tale of…radioactive boars!

Mmm…Books

Google tells us that there exist 129,864,880 different books in the world. It’s a bit daunting for the dwindling number + more

Summer Reading Notes

I’m in the midst of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts, an account of the author’s walk across Europe + more

I’m Persua-dead

With the dog days* of summer upon us, one could do worse than find relief from the heat in the + more

Quote of the Day

In an article in the 01/2010 issue of Audi Magazine, Richard Koshalek, director of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture + more

America in Color, 1939–43

  Because it’s not always about words, here’s an amazing collection of color images taken by photographers of the Farm + more

Some Light Verse

While I’m not so much of a cotton-headed ninny-muggins as to suggest that all we need is to give peace + more

The Best Show in Town

My wife and I attended the Harold Balazs art exhibit opening this past Saturday at the MAC. It was a + more

Architectural Eye Candy

  There are some questionable choices in this list of the most important works of architecture created since 1980 – + more

Would a Hobo Eat a Ham Sandwich?

As someone who tried Facebook for a while, let me assure you that the answer to the question “Has Facebook + more

Our First Sports Post!

So. LeBron James has decided to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers for the Miami Heat. Apparently, this is a huge deal. + more

On Divas

Courtesy of Alex Ross, whose blog The Rest Is Noise should be required reading for lovers of the new classical + more

Quote of the Week

“The malady of our age is mediocrity.” I found this several years ago while reading a volume of the collected + more

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