tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-331915192011-04-21T12:14:50.002-07:00<i>I</i> think it's funny.Saskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06264649745018406274noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33191519.post-1158016033904860542006-09-11T16:00:00.000-07:002006-09-11T19:13:06.700-07:00

My son was about to turn one year old. I was asleep in bed, with the television on. My then-husband woke me with the words, "They crashed a plane into the World Trade Center." The towers had not yet come down when I groggily began to watch the news. It is hard to believe it has been five years since then; my son is nearly six and in school, George W. Bush is inexplicably still president, and

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Let us take a moment to recall, from the earlier post about Skip to My Lou, what the Art Department promised us following the cleaning and graveling of the sculpture:"We are sensitive to that fact and plan to install extended outdoor, in-ground signage after the sculpture conservation is complete that will tell people about the artwork and also encourage people to use the sculpture as a gathering

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Earlier this week, an article circulated describing how British censors had decided to edit the smoking out of old Tom and Jerry cartoons. This didn't exactly shock me; 4Kids has been doing this for ages with anime it imports and then repurposes for the under-10 set here in the United States. Most famously, chain-smoking metrosexual kickboxing waiter Sanji of One Piece was stripped of his fag and

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My 16-year old kitty Clio continues to amaze me with her talents. As proof she is the lowest-maintenance cat ever, I submit her self-brushing trick:

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Originally posted 8/8/06 on the old blog. Several months ago I became semi-obsessed with photographing an art installation on the Microsoft campus: Ursula von Rydingsvard's Skip to My Lou. It offered visually delicious shapes and color combinations, as well as an almost infinite playground for depth of field with otherwise uniform elements of size, shape and texture. It was certainly odd, and I

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Originally published 8/3/06 on the old blog. I know an Australian shepherd named Casey who destroys stuffed Barneys on sight. It's downright creepy and he's very methodical: first he rips out their eyes, then he eviscerates them by detaching the tummy panel from the rest of the doll, and then he pulls out all the stuffing.   This morning I read about Barney the Dobermann, a guard dog employed at

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Originally published 8/2/06 on the old blog. Armchair pundit   I can't decide if I am just older and more crotchety, or if there are a larger number of kuh-razies in international politics than there used to be. Also, I wonder if I might have thought of Gorbachev as a kuh-razy if I'd been 30 whence came the Glasnost and the Perestroika, instead of 16. Anyway.   Fidel Castro, invulnerable to

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