New Year’s Sunrise, 2007, Haulover Beach If you find yourself at loose ends before 7am New Year’s morning, please join me at Haulover Beach for a knowingly symbolic gesture: watching the sun rise on 2008. It is very low key and brief; I’ll probably get to the beach around 6:30, watch the 7:07 sunrise, by [...]
For those looking for something to do today, the King Mango Strut will be held a few short hours from now in Coconut Grove. I’ve attended many times in the past and looked forward to going again this year, but forces have conspired against me. I hope someone takes good pictures! As for tomorrow, you’re [...]
Christmas 1966 Ah, the good old days, when being a bomb-throwing anarchist was a kids’ game. With me and my younger brother the only kids in the family, games of Time Bomb tended to be short, anyway. My Internet access was dead this morning for as yet unknown reasons, so I’m forced to make do, [...]
Author, January, 1961 Here’s a wonderful story of a chance meeting between a group of Christmas carolers and Mel Torme, as witnessed by Mark Evanier. Hmm, a mystical being created from a common substance. Was Frosty the Snowman a golem? “…eight dancing midgets…”. The Twelve Days of Twin Peaks, as performed in 1990 by the [...]
Do you want to know what it means to support free speech, to truly support it? You have to willing to recognize the rights of people to put forth the vilest, most inhuman ideology imaginable. And, you have to accept their right to film that hatred for distribution, as part of their attempt at spreading [...]
Here are few seasonal links you may enjoy, from the sacred to the profane. From the marvelous Jen Stewart, here’s an Advent calendar full of goodies. (What’s an advent calendar?) After 52 years, NORAD is still tracking Santa. Now, though, Google is helping. (Note: I find it a bit disturbing that in the North Pole [...]
While I wrap up a few (thousand) loose ends at work in the hope of getting a half-day off before Christmas, please enjoy this music video of Over the Rhine‘s “All I Ever Get for Christmas is Blue.” I chanced across it a couple of weeks ago, bought the album immediately, and it’s been on [...]
If you are scared of insects (and similar creepy-crawlies), don’t look at these links. Insect Picture of the Day What’s That Bug? I used to be scared of spiders. I still don’t particularly like them crawling on me, and I admit to doing the webtusi dance whenever I walk through a spiderweb, but they do [...]
This sad and bizarre story has been making the rounds. Megan, a high school girl with self-esteem issues has a fight with a friend. The friend’s mother creates a fake boy named Josh on MySpace. “Josh” becomes Megan’s friend over the course of months, building Megan’s confidence, and then turns on her, telling her she [...]
I’m all for using some color to liven up a dull monochromatic laptop, but really. Britto? Okay, it seems that it is actually an edition of one, so we may be safe. [via Engadget] Share/Bookmark
Many years ago I went to an exhibition of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The size of the thing hit me first, as it looked as though it went on forever, a cavernous room with the floor covered with quilt panels, and bare concrete walkways between sections. Every 50 feet [...]