no parking on the dancefloor

someone has always said it better.

2008-06-26T23:36:03Z

“Most people are not prepared for their loved one’s death, even if they have been beside their bed for a year. When loved ones die, their absence is momentous. Transitional rituals help acknowledge death. The mind will have things to say for a ...

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lunch break

2008-06-18T16:03:51Z

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whatcha been readin?

2008-06-06T16:26:04Z

All of you have fabulous taste in books, so I'm curious if you've been reading something good. I'm looking for some sort of fiction, since between life and our regular book selection around here of history/politics/media , I think I'm sorted on th...

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reach the rez

2008-05-27T02:20:33Z

Obama opens up the first ever campaign office on tribal lands in Montana.

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bike or death...

2008-05-22T21:58:11Z

...has always felt like the choice here in Boston. But I miss my bike! I am not a particularly graceful bike rider, or a competitive one, or even a very successful one, but I love it. I learned how to put one together, and when it broke on a rainy...

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to help ourselves and others

2008-05-18T18:15:34Z

I started reading Jen Lemen's blog a while ago, and I'm not even sure how I found it. She seems to be a very kind soul with the same sort of ups and downs I'm so familiar with - two steps forward, one to the side, hop and skip, try and fail and tr...

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hawthorne bridge time lapse

2008-05-09T01:03:23Z

A lovely little time-lapse video of the bridge going up and down. I used to live on Hawthorne and 19th - across the bridge, and worked in the lower right hand corner. via Torrez

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pork barrel politics

2008-04-24T14:41:29Z

I really do love pork, but not this kind. A reasonable (meaning no holds barred on any candidate) deconstruction of pork-barrel spending from my one of my favorites, Matt Taibbi: The thing that's really vile about earmarks is how cheaply we all ...

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getting better all the time.

2008-04-22T00:42:01Z

I'll take this for a good omen. For reference: Same plant as here.

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"polls" or "data" or "actual facts"

2008-04-16T17:23:34Z

barack obama: the final throes! "That's why Giblets is so certain this final crippling blow to the Obama candidacy will be the finalest and most crippling of them all...Giblets doesn't need to wait for "polls" or "data" or "actual facts" when he ...

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