Archive for June, 2006
Flickr Pool: Annotated Work Spaces
Flickr: Annotated Work Spaces, bery interestink…
Peep of Day
This is my latest acquisition. Let me read to you a favorite passage.
“How easy would it be to hurt your poor little body.
If it were to fall into the fire, it would be burned up. If hot water were to fall upon it, it would be scalded. If it were to fall into deep […]
From Maine
Two moose on main street in Presque Isle last week. From a friend in Maine, via my grandmother.
Ode to My L.L. Bean Bookbag
I got mine in 6th grade. I’m from Maine where having an L.L. Bean book bag is about as exotic as wearing jeans. Once in high school I decided I wanted to be different and bought a Jansport that ended up being too small and I ripped the zipper off on the first day. My […]
Odes to Things
Pablo Neruda, the nobel-prize winning Chilean poet, wrote several collections of poems in celebration of things. My favorite is Ode to a Pair of Socks, see below. I’ve created a new category for my own odes to things, for some things, even though they are material and will pass away like so much dust, deserve to be celebrated for their ingenuity, their usefulness and for the skill and care with which they were designed and made.
Brilliant!
The ‘Scandinavian Way to Open a bottle of beer,’ though the question of how to open the last beer by this method now perplexes me. via BoingBoing
The Funnest Interview I’ve ever seen
Poor guy.
Long-Scorned in Maine, French Has Renaissance
NY Times Long-Scorned in Maine, French Has Renaissance
Frederick Levesque was just a child in Old Town, Me., when teachers told him to become Fred Bishop, changing his name to its English translation to conceal that he was French-American.
Cleo Ouellette’s school in Frenchville made her write “I will not speak French” over and over if she […]
The Peifer Chronicles
I’ve posted on Steve before, but I got an e-mail yesterday I couldn’t help but share.
Like returning to America, there is that definitive moment when you know you are back in Kenya. That was a lot of competition this time. A guy stopped me in Nairobi and asked me:
Guy: Do you want to buy this […]
Townes Van Zandt, Be Here to Love Me
Filmmaker Margaret Brown made a documentary on legendary Texas singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. I didn’t get up to Austin in time to see this at SXSW, and I just realized the DVD release snuck by me, but it’s out. Worth catching if you can. The way law school is going it may be another month […]