Among horse-drawn buggies and fields full of cows and dried up corn husks, I managed to find a tree with radient leaves. They’re very few and far between this year. I also managed to trip, tear my pants, scuff my Italian shoes, bruise a knee, but I saved the camera.
From the New York Times:
To the Editor:
It isn’t enough that Americans are now routinely working 14-hour days, that no one cooks a real dinner anymore, that kids and parents stand around eating takeout in the kitchen at 10 p.m., that dinnertime conversation is dead, that the two-week family vacation is a thing of the past? [...]
This isn’t breaking news. I only found out about it today while reading the cheap-o Metro newspaper in the break room. I’ve been too involved in my own personal odyssey to not know until almost a week late that one of my favorite bands has just released an album.
Radiohead dropped their latest In Rainbows [...]
It’s been a while since I had to deal with Ticketmaster. When I went to see The Killers in New York in April, I bypassed the Spawn of Avarice by joining The Killers’ fanclub and buying the tickets directly from them. But I’ve hated them with every cell I possess before because of their unfair, [...]
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So if I had a chance
Would you let me know
Why aren’t you shaking
Step back in time
Graciously taken
Oh you’re too kind
And if the answer is no
Can I change your mind
We’re all the same
And love is blind
The sun is gone
Before it shines
And I said if the answer is no
Can I change your mind
Usually [...]
I’ve had it up to here with nerds who insist on hacking iPhones for their own perverted purposes and then complain when the company who makes them tries to clamp down on the madness. I don’t use my television to mow my lawn, people. Stop crying foul, drama queens.
The whole outcry reminds me of the [...]
And the list of things annoying me are:
1. The merciless heat: Why do I have the air on in October? Why am I not being allowed to don my trenches and tweed and sky high pumps? Why am I still in sandals? It’s October! I’m just glad to hear snow’s falling in the Rockies, otherwise [...]