Catfight on Wisteria Lane
Word is that a recent photo shoot with the ladies from Desperate Housewives got a little tense. This from AOL news… “It looked like all smiles during the shoot, but Vanity Fair’s Ned Zeman witnessed a real-life soap opera unfold between the ladies. He says the all-day shoot was filled […]
Fingers in the Dam on the Border
Scores of participants in the Minuteman Project began assembling late last week and clusters of volunteers began regular patrols Monday, in an exercise some law enforcement authorities and civil rights groups fear will result in vigilante violence. Many of the volunteers were recruited over the Internet, and some planned to […]
Not a Poker Face
Poker on Mountain Road, Don Gibson looks happy seated next to GoNOMAD Web tech Stephen Hartshorne.
Suitable for the ‘Rents?
Casa Fontanella, Le Marche Italy. This is either the perfect place to take my parents for a long-planned vacation in rural Italy, or the out in the sticks trap that I made the mistake of thinking would be a great place to take my parents for vacation.
Woman Breastfeeds Tiger Cubs–Ouch!
Drudge includes this snippet in today’s report. A Burmese woman is breastfeeding two tiger cubs at a zoo in Rangoon after they were removed from their aggressive mother. Hla Htay, 40, who has three children, the youngest seven months old, offered her services after the Bengal tiger cubs’ mother, Noah […]
Podcasting into the Stream
I had my first podcast user experience tonight. Listened to a wise Stephan Stevens, who is from Wisconsin, but now lives in New Zealand. He is a self confessed RSS fanatic, saying that this platform will revolutionize the world of the net as we know it. I am also high […]
The Maxa Man
The last time we spoke with Rudy Maxa, he was in a terrific hurry. It had something to do with pipes, leaking urgent pipes, and he was not able to stay. We reached him today, and told him about how we had seen his visage on dozens of similtaneous screens […]
Hooking Up in New York City
Today’s NY Times Styles section offers a preview of a new book called by the provocative title, “The Hooking Up Handbook,” that details what young stylish women in their 20s think about dating and sex in the 00s. Alex Williams interviewed a pack of women wearing low slung $200 jeans […]
Who Will Be the Next Pope?
This question is floating all over the world, now that the Pope has passed. I heard a radio interview with a man speaking about how when he had an audience with The Big Guy, it consisted of him repeating back everything he said, with a “god bless” after it. Not […]
Land of No Evenings
On the equator, there is no evening. Reading more of Jeffrey Tayler’s Facing the Congo, I learned that in these stiffling, mosquito-filled areas, night just shuts down. There is no drifting, no slow descent to darkness. The lights virtually go off at 6 pm. The book chronicles the passage down […]
Batting Around the Tennis Ball
This morning we head over to Ludlow to hit tennis balls inside a huge green dome. It is a round robin affair, we get there and are given a list showing who we are playing against for 45 minutes of doubles. Then we switch and play a different pair. I […]
