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More Texas. You know, I left out the funniest part of being in Texas. Everything is decorated almost exactly as if it were in western South Dakota. Swap out the Native American influence for Hispanic, and there you have it. Friday: Dallas Zoo, currently a tropical paradise. We were walking along an outside corridor formed […]

Chocolate Shop. A friend of mine is visiting a quaint little college town the other day, wandering around with a friend of hers in the late evening when they discover a chocolate shop. The sign says the place closes at eight, but it’s still open. The owner tells them he just likes to give people

Resort. We have arrived in Texas for the service conference. Those of you in Storyball, yes, I have my story done (sort of? I need to look up people’s names and make sure they haven’t been killed off yet), I just need to type it up and post it. Dallas: Much greener than Colorado. Think

Bubba Hotep. I guess you either like the movie or you hate it. I liked it. Elvis (Bruce Campbell): No offense, Jack, but President Kennedy was a white man. JFK (Ossie Davis): They dyed me this color! That’s how clever they are!

Writerly Ramble. Spoilerly Alias stuff below. I vicariously watch Alias. That is, Lee’s watching it, and he sometimes tells me about what’s going on. As he’s telling me about what’s going on, I’m thinking, “there’s a pattern here.” The first seaon, the solution to many problems was something called “The Third Alternative.” That is, when

In Antiguaby Kerri Webster “In Antigua I am famous. I am bathed in jasmine and pressed with warm stones.” —Carnival Cruise ad in the New Yorker In Albuquerque, on the other hand, I am infamous; childrenthrow stones and the elderly whisper behind their hands.In Juneau, I am glacial, a cool blue where anyone can bathefor

April is National Poetry Month. If you go to www.poets.org, you can sign up for a daily poem in your inbox. I like today’s, especially the line about “no lover ever imagines them”: A Myth of Devotionby Louise Glück When Hades decided he loved this girlhe built for her a duplicate of earth,everything the same,

In the beginning… God created the heavens and the earth (The Bible) A long time ago… Luke Skywalker and Han Solo lead a rebellion against the evil empire(Star Wars)4,000,000BC Aliens leave monolith on Earth (2001: A Space Odyssey)1,000,000BC Loana faces dinosaurs to be with Tumak, a caveman banished from his savage tribe, and then from

The Wisdom of Terry Pratchett. Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life. Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad

Doubt it. Regarding “modernistic” architecture: “But modernism of the heroic period, from 1920 to 1939, is dead, and it died first in the blockhouses of Utah beach and the Siegfried line. Yet in its heyday between the wars, modernism was a vast utopian project, and perhaps the last utopian project we will ever see, now