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Live Music: The Reverend Horton Heat
It’s been a long time since we’ve been to a live show, so when Ann told me the Reverend Horton Heat was playing the Aggie Theater on a Thursday night in Fort Collins I said, “Let’s do it!” It soon becomes obvious I’ve forgotten everything I ever knew about seeing a show. It was billed…
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Movie: The Meaning Of Life
I haven’t watched this Monty Python movie since I was teenager. What a different movie it is as an adult! The over-the-top, rebellious crassness of it appealed to me as a raucous youth. Now, I understand what the crassness is making fun of! It’s not the fat guy puking all over the place that’s funny,…
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Book: WILD ANIMUS by Rich Shapero
I’ve now finished this book, after discussing it with the author here a few weeks ago. It’s a challenging book, more interested in probing a character most of us would immediately dismiss as a nut than trying to entertain the reader. I’m glad I stuck with it. My own explorations of my connection with nature…
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Agitated Peace
The reason I was up at 4:30 am this morning was to attend a ’20 minutes for peace’ meditation, which was billed as a 20-minute period of silence to take place around the world at noon Greenwich Mean Time. I usually abhor rallies and like activities, but this sounded like something I could handle. I…
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It could mean anything, no?
It’s 4:30 am, time for profound thoughts. I know it’s customary in many cultures to end questions with the word ‘no’. The word ‘no’ can even be a question in itself. I just had this little dialog with Ann: Ann: Would you like a piece of toast? Me: No. Ann: No? Me: Silence. Brain stuck…
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A Narrow Escape
You would think from my Christmas post that we had a cozy, uneventful family Christmas. How nice. In reality, we nearly suffered 3rd-degree burns, lost T-Rex, flooded the kitchen, and burned ourselves and the house up in a ball of flame. I’m thankful that we’ve all survived December 25th without major injuries.
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Merry Christmas
…from T-Rex. (And from us blurry folks at Lola’s table too…)
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30 seconds of fame
It may be a sad statement about our collective yearning for attention. Or it may be an innovative way to discover kindred spirits out there in the blogging world. I haven’t decided, but I did join Blog Explosion today out of curiosity. The deal is simple: you look at other people’s blogs and they will…
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Spontaneous Floorboard Perspiration
When I was living in a tent this summer I often experienced something that might be described as perspiration on the floor (though I always called it condensation). I’d never imagined any such thing could happen in a wooden house, though, much less underneath a heavy futon mattress. I thought we’d rented a far less…
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view-tags plugin
Since the Radical Wacko was nice enough to ask, I did write a WordPress Plugin to help create the post viewer form in my hoboview menu. WordPress comes with template tags for creating the category selector, but I had to make the date selector and sort order radio buttons myself. I also included a tag…