Continuing from my previous post on Letters From New Orleans: Rob Walker was interviewed by Flak Magazine several weeks ago about his book, and that interview now seems eerily prescient. Since Hurricane Katrina hit and throughout the still-unfolding aftermath, he has been asked many times his thoughts on the situation in New Orleans. Here is …
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Festivus maximus
BlogFest 3 = the very best way one could have spent a Thursday night in Pittsburgh.
Great things seen elsewhere
Yes, I’m still here. Thanks, I’m fine. Just very busy. With work and stuff, you know? It’s all good, although I haven’t had enough brain power left at the end of the day to create any good blog entries. However, I have been storing up a bunch of things that I liked from other places. …
A savage journey to the heart of the American dream
I don’t know which fact is more shocking to me: that Hunter S. Thompson, my counter-culture, anti-establishment hero, has killed himself; that he died the same day that former squeaky-clean teen star Sandra Dee passed away due to complications from kidney disease; or that he was older than she was when they died. I do …
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Steeler fans not the only ones depressed today
There’s mathematical evidence that today is indeed a no good, very bad day: If you stumbled out of bed in the dark this morning, fell over the cat, found no milk in the fridge for your porridge, had a row with your partner, received a rude letter from the bank, got covered in snow at …
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One lump or two? Or three?
Friday was a three-coffeeshop day. I started at Cummings Candy and Coffee, not working but writing, trying to restore to memory what I’ve done so far in the writing of my novel. Cummings has terrific booths with classic wood seats and marble table-tops, and a warm small town vibe, which makes it ideal for writing …
Things you learn in school can be useful after all
A piece of good news from the tsunami coverage: British ‘angel’ saved hundreds from tsunami with classroom knowledge. Tilly, who has been renamed the “angel of the beach” by the top-selling tabloid The Sun, was holidaying with her family on the Thai island of Phuket when she suddenly grasped what was taking place and alerted …
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As close as this site comes to knitting news
Unlike many others, I’m not skilled at creating things with yarn. But if you are, you might like to try out this nifty crocheted item: a crochet model of chaos. That is, they’ve made a thing that uses “25,511 crochet stitches to represent the Lorenz equations.” The idea for the “Lorenz manifold” model came about …
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More articulate than you might expect
Welcome, readers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Sorry the place is a little messy — been busy with holiday and end of the year activities. December is so hectic, don’t you think? Anyway, I’m quite glad that you decided to click on over, especially given how generally inarticulate I sounded in the quotes in the PG …
I have heard from Laura
The prodigal sister is back. My little sister Laura (the one that travels, not the one that lives in Butler and does theatrical stuff) has been back in the US for a few months. She has gradually been filling in the gaps in her travel blog, Have You Heard From Laura? And it looks like …