Monthly Archives: May 2006

Ozone update

Posted on May 31, 2006 by Kirsten

It’s good news. A healing. An unexplicable healing. Even better. And on a night when I’m in an uncommonly delicious mood, too delicious to blog, even. Back tomorrow ;-) Technorati Tags: ozone layer

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Hilarity break

Posted on May 31, 2006 by Kirsten

If you’re a writer who has ever submitted anything anywhere, you’ll appreciate this ;-) Yet another bit of fun linked on Miss Snark. Technorati Tags: writing, rejection

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Why you’re better off being skeptical

Posted on May 30, 2006 by Kirsten

About what you “read in the papers,” that is. You know that Newsweek story from 1986 that said single women over 40 were more likely to be killed by terrorists than find husbands? It was bunk. Here, via CJR Daily, … Continue reading →

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40 million acres

Posted on May 30, 2006 by Kirsten

That’s how much of America is lawn, according to Brian Black in CS Monitor. He’s reviewing “American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn,” by Ted Steinberg. Black admits he doesn’t care for lawns, and Steinberg, apparently, thinks they’re … Continue reading →

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Happy Memorial Day

Posted on May 29, 2006 by Kirsten

And God bless our troops. Technorati Tags: Memorial Day

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What he said

Posted on May 28, 2006 by Kirsten

Just when you thought one could hardly find a new virtue to ascribe to the blogosphere, we have this, in a piece at 2Blowhards about pulp fiction: I was brainwashed, er, educated into reading and appreciating upscale fiction, yet my … Continue reading →

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Peak perversion

Posted on May 28, 2006 by Kirsten

It’s become a cliché to assume that individuals who aspire to perform physically grueling feats somehow embody humankind’s highest ideals. So we rush to applaud people who reach Everest’s summit and hold them up as worthy of our admiration. Yet, … Continue reading →

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’76 all over again . . .

Posted on May 26, 2006 by Kirsten

A blind tasting of wines first compared 30 years ago was deja vous all over again. In May 1976, nine French wine experts judged New World cabernet sauvignons and chardonnays against their beloved red Bordeaux and white Burgundies in a … Continue reading →

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“Bye-Bye Barbara–The Play”

Posted on May 26, 2006 by Kirsten

Omg this is funny! Via Miss Snark . . . Technorati Tags: literary agent scams, BarbaraBauer, Barbara Bauer

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Iris for your smilin’ eyes

Posted on May 26, 2006 by Kirsten

I planted these last year, so this is their first time blooming. I thought they were “Harvest of Memories” — that’s what I’d written in my notes when I was figuring out what varieties to buy and where to put … Continue reading →

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