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The Real Food Revolution
The Rest of the Story . The true revolution behind Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution television show was based in Connecticut...
sursumcorda, 10 June 2010 |
For Our Nerdy Family
For reasons obscure (who needs a reason, anyway?) I was looking up mathematician/musician Tom Lehrer and came upon this. Enjoy!...
A Laugh from the Past
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Thanks to Netflix, we're reprising the...
New Year's Resolution #6 - Cast Away Fear
I'm not sure exactly where I'm going with this resolution, and I really have no business adding another when I haven't made much...
The Great American Hot Dog
What could be more American than hot dogs? Lawsuits, apparently. I bought a package of hot dogs yesterday. I'm...
Hey, That's Our Steph!
Check out our * Steph Shaw on a very early morning TV gig in New York today. The guy out front who keeps hogging the...
Feudal Effort
Meet Feudal Effort , the latest addition to the comics list on my Sursum Corda page: I find it fun. Sometimes...
Generation Gap
Mutton dressed as lamb . I can and do text , finding it quite useful at times, mostly because not all phones send and receive...
Memorial Day Cake
Our Memorial Day celebration concluded with a lovely dinner at at a friend's house, to which we brought wine and...
Memorial Day, 2010
One of the reasons I like Mallard Fillmore is that he can always be counted on to remember: This Memorial Day I...
Food Rules
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michale Pollan (Penguin, New York, 2009) Food Rules is a condensation of what...
Six Weeks and Counting
Only about six more weeks until we're visibly a family of three! Stephan took and posted a picture of me on Monday after we...
Computer Control Quest - Day 2
Today I almost gave up before I started. First, there was a blog post that I felt needed a comment, and I was guiltily trying to...
Computer Control Quest - Day 1
Last night I finished a project that had kept me welded to the computer for the better part of several days, and I awoke wondering if...
Super Size Me
Super Size Me (Sony, 2004, PG-13) When Morgan Spurlock was growing up, his mother made the family's meals at home; they...
Take Our Children to the Park...and Leave Them There Day
Lenore Skenazy's Free-Range Kids blog is one of my favorite antidotes to the frustrations of modern life, and the outrageous...
The History Channel: The Dark Ages
The Dark Ages (The History Channel, 2007, not rated) Having worked for a number of months in New York City, Porter had...
The Brain that Changes Itself
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge (Penguin, New York,...
Switzerland, April-May 2010: Eyjafjallajokull Up...
We recently returned from a lovely two weeks in Switzerland (with brief side trips to France, Germany, and Italy). I hope...
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (20 th Century Fox, 1958, not rated) A sympathetic and positive portrayal of a...
Monk
Monk , the television show about obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk, ran from 2002 - 2009. We encountered...
Extended Childhood
Today's Mallard Fillmore comic inspired this post, which Li'l Writer Guy had actually been working on in the background ever since a...
New Year's Resolution #5 - Pay Attention
I am not going to join the recent chorus of voices crying that multitasking is a bad thing. It can relieve tedium (listening to...
That's Our Boy!
Our six year old grandson is brilliant, of course: great in reading, great in math, and, as those of you who know our family...
Wedding Cake
On Saturday my lovely brother-in-law got married to the lovely Ana and we had a splendid celebration for them. Part of the...