Ars Gratia Artis

Nano girl, oh my little nano girl…
The end arrives in a few hours, but I am done with the novel writing part! This was undoubtedly my worst effort, though, I think. It got very Gertrude Stein. You’d think I was eating me some Alice B. Toklas.
Ah, I have to go lay down, I’m [...]

PETA mistakenly targets nativity scene
This was fricken hilarious. I can just imagine some tight-assed PETA bonehead all up in righteous arms about those cows.
I can’t stop laughing.

Somehow, by 2 PM, I’m supposed to have the house clean and a fabulous feast on the table. Yeah. ::sigh::
Meanwhile, a lecture I enjoyed:
Do schools today kill creativity? (TEDTalks, Ken Robinson) - Google Video

Mostly too tired to write much this last week. As I have whinged about in the past, I don’t do so well with long stretches of work; last weekend, Michael and I did the Chicago Radio and Jukebox show, so there was my weekend, working for Predicta for free. Of course, I will easily confess [...]

My dog-tag, C-Rations can opener, and the key to my barracks room on Fliegerhorst Kaserne
LOL. Looking at the P-38 (the can opener), I can’t help but drift into memories of CRats and MRE’s… I was so happy when they changed over, so glad I’d never have to face the utterly gruesome ham and eggs again… [...]

Hey, Leon, wherever you are:
I hope you’re having a grand time celebrating the Marine Corps’ Birthday.
Semper Fi.

There they are. Another book bites the dust in the One from Each project. The recipe was copied into this blog here.
After 10 days in the malt vinegar, the beans were patchy in color and tasted of nothing but malt vinegar. I may have made the pickling brine too strong. I boiled them, as instructed, [...]

I was at Half Priced Books yesterday. It was hushed; the usual background noise was absent. Through the walls, I could hear the sound of drums and a bass line, and something about that drum and bass line was so wonderful that I walked out of the book store and into the record store to [...]

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Please remember to vote today. If you are in one of the several states voting on banning gay marriage, please vote to stop such ridiculous laws. The Wisconsin amendment is particularly heinous, in that not only does it try to outlaw gay marriage, it is also designed to strip away rights from just about anyone [...]