We walked across a lush green pasture where cows eyed us as we avoided their pies on the trail. The Maori Pa was a fort located in a glen near the banks of a winding stream. Up in the trees, I caught the unblinking eyes of this owl. I shot […]
Maki Kaji is not world famous, but his game sure is. You see, he’s the math wiz behind sudoko, which can be seen every day in more than 600 newspapers and generates more than $250 million a year….but not for him. The NY Times profiled this shy horse-racing fanatic yesterday […]
Two people came into the cafe today, all with new wares for the GoNOMAD Cafe. It is interesting to me being on this side of the fence; for many of my years of working I’ve been the guy with the pitch and the samples. Now I buy the items for […]
Last night I almost missed American Idol. I was watching something even more exciting with lots more drama. It was a special town meeting featuring a room packed with Deerfield voters, all listening to a presentation about joining the Community Preservation Act. Six years ago the town decided that one […]
Today I got up early to read Editor and Publisher. A story by Joe Strupp discussed how the war is taking a toll on reporters, there are fewer and fewer of them willing to risk IED explosions in Iraq to cover the war. Susan Chira, NY Times foreign editor said […]
Last night, I think I was hoaxed. The joke’s on me, just like thousands of others, who read the post on Boingboing.net about the World’s Most Daring Prank. Cory wrote hey, it might be worth a click, so I did, and ended up spending 45 minutes reading about John Hargrave’s […]
Laurie Ellis is married to my cousin Shady. They live in Arlington and I see him more than I do Laurie. But the one thing I do enjoy about knowing Laurie is knowing about Laurie’s Book Rants. Here is a quote from a review of a Calvin Trillin novel: Oh […]
Traditional Polish lace almost met its demise…until sexy thongs, g-strings and other racy undergarments helped bring it back to life. Today’s the AP has a story datelined Koniakow, Poland. “Lace wasn’t selling in the quantities it once did, and the tradition was starting to slowly disappear,’ said Malgorzata Stanaszek, owner […]
The familiar chiming ring from my son in law’s cellphone alarm awakes me at 5:15 am. Outside the wind howls, and the snow has turned to driving little nails, spitting tiny frozen flakes. Francisco was smart to park his car at the end of the driveway, near the road, he’s […]
Sometimes when I go and visit my 20-something son I get a sense of media from his perspective. And this often means watching Comedy Central. This is the channel that young men of his age are most often tuned into, and the other night they had a string of Arab […]
Settling back into our regular lives, I picked up Newsweek and found a story about clean diamonds by Alicia Barney. The 20 tons of waste per 18 karat gold ring and the pollution caused by mining has people talking. Buoyed by the movie, “Blood Diamonds,” these cleaner karats are all […]
In the LAX terminal I was happy to pick up Sunday’s NY Times style section and read a funny story by Alex Williams about hairstyles in the NBA. She certainly has a way with words describing the silly hairstyles seen on NBA basketball courts. “But perhaps no recent hairstyle says […]