November 2011
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Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started...
– Frank O’Hara (1964)
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Plants That Impressed Me In 2011: Pt. I
Leucothoe fontabesiana ‘Girard’s Rainbow’
Leucothoe, doghobble or fetterbush, is a relatively rare shrub in the Ericaceae, or heath family (one that also includes Pieris, the blueberry family Vaccinium, as well as Kalmia and the showy Rhododendron family of shrubs) that is native to the mountains and forests of the southeast United States and the Mid-Atlantic region. The slow...
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Hugo was an excellent film.
Here’s my generally spoiler-free review. The film is much quainter than the trailers make it out to be, which disappointed me only slightly, as the trailers do make it out to be solely about the mystery of the heart shaped-key and the automaton.
Having not read the source material, it planted the idea that the movie would entail an adventure of secret rooms, breaking into museums, more like...
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I need to learn how to swing dance really well
Cause then I can be graceful and awesome.
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If I Was A Multi-Billionaire Part I: Knock It...
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Major urban…reforestation. Well, downsizing. Both? I’ve been making floral arrangement deliveries at my job across the Baltimore/Baltimore County region (Dundalk today..) and Baltimore is…special. It’s got a lot of character but it’s pretty rough, and a main problem it only looks so rough is because of all the abandoned row homes and other rather large spaces just...
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O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Probably the most misquoted or misunderstood line from Shakespeare. People use it, make jokes, and don’t understand it in the least. STOP MISQUOTING IT.
She’s not asking where he is, which seems to be the common misconception, but, come on, look at ‘wherefore’ (related to ‘therefore’) so synonymous of why or “for what purpose/reason”. Why is he...
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America’s corporate tax obscenity →
highwaydandy:
Corporate tax dodging is a fairly well-known thing among liberal circles.
But I don’t think anyone quite realizes just how vile it is, nor do we know the scale.
This is very important.
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The Runaways: South Florida is all about... →
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I’m not talking about the people or the buildings, but rather the landscape.
I’ve been visiting South Florida for years, ever since we moved away from that place, but it wasn’t until my last trip that I realized just how nice the landscaping was.
If you’ve been following me for any amount of…
This is sort of the philosophy that the homesteading movement sort of has and...