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Houston Street Fountain
lby_nyc1 Originally uploaded by tikaro. Kate and Lydia are in NYC this week, since I’m in a training session. We’re staying at the Giraffe hotel on 26th street. Kate introduced Lydia to her first city playgrounds! This is the picture that Kate sent me from her cameraphone in the middle of the day.
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I’ve blogged about this before.
I can understand why Weight Watchers decided to put a bemused-looking avatar next to the message that you’ve gained weight since the last time you plugged your digits into the site. (Last time I plugged my digits into the site was about a month ago, and I’ve been going up and down since then.) I…
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Picking a gym in West Chester
So Kate and I have been looking for a gym that we can go to in our copious spare time. We’ve been evaluating two of them: West Chester ACAC (“Ay-See-Ay-See?” “Ack-Ack?”) Ten minutes away by car, colossal facility, includes family changing rooms for the pool, a magical centrifugal bathing-suit dryer, and a Starbucks inside the…
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Are you ready for the summer?
Okay, that settles it. I’m TOTALLY showing “Meatballs” at the Guerilla Drive-In this year. More pictures of Lydia’s very first canoe trip here! Update: This isn’t the original, but I think it’s good enough for my purposes. Yeah, they’ve got my number, but good.
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Nostalgie Pour LES NERDS
What I actually said in an email interview about the Retropod with very nice French-Canadian journalist Esther Pilon: “The website was a bit of a sarcastic joke, as my friends Consuelo and Oraia were pretending to be punked-out Billyburg hipsters (they are decent, upstanding punks in real life: www.rightrides.net). When the site went live, I…
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Wow. Wow. Wow.
I saw this on boingboing.net today: it appears to be jazz dancers Al Minns and Leon James, doing the charleston. An incredibly amazing, badass, sloppy, and completely compelling charleston. Holy cow, this is the kind of thing that makes you want to switch careers. The original sound has been replaced with Z-Trip’s All About the…
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When Life’s Rich Tapestry is an acrylic stadium blanket, and it STILL rocks
In the preface to The Philosophy of Right, Hegel wrote that “the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk”, which in my particular case means that it’s a hell of a lot easier to write about middle-school amazement at brass-busted barbarians on polar bears than it is to write…
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Wait, those belt buckles DON’T attract the chicks?
When the time comes for my life to flash in front of my eyes, I know that at least one of the images is going to be me, at age 11 or so, kneeling on the bunk at Camp Ockanickon staring with slack-jawed fascination at an amazing picture on the back of a cheap, glossy…
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You can never park in the same spot twice.
On Saturday, Kate went with her fiber posse to a yarn rally, which I think is one of the warm-up events to the big one coming up in May. I had some more “yarn rally::motorcycle rally” comparisons in here, but they weren’t coming across as clever — by now, it’s pretty obvious to me that…
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They don’t teach the shimmy on “Barney”
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