Governor Pawlenty has vetoed a bill which would have established a Minnesota Poet Laureate. Had he approved it, the governor said, “We could also see requests for a state mime, interpretive dancer or potter.”
We don’t need a laureate, but we could use some health care. And some education funding.
I do have one guess as to who the poet would have been.
I get all choked up when she does stuff like that. Things really do just keep getting better: the longer you stay with someone you really love, the more neat details you discover about them, or at least that has been my warm fuzzy experience.
For our anniversary, we are going to jail.
Those of you who aren’t me, aren’t Jessie, and aren’t celebrating your fifth anniversary can console yourselves with this very odd love poem from a very odd, but worthwhile, litmag, discovered this morning via The Page.
Five years have gone by so quickly, but things have just gotten better the longer we stay together. Thanks for being so wonderful, my dear.
And anyone who was there who wants it, I’ll flickr a photo of you from the wedding.
“Wouldn’t you say it’s a tragedy every time a young life is snuffed out?”
“Probably,” Saul said. “Depends on what you mean by ‘tragedy.’” [Local newscaster] Traci McMahoney frowned again. “If you mean a story of a great man brought low by circumstances related to his character, resulting in events that cause a purging of pity and fear, then no.” –Charles Baxter, Saul and Patsy
“Adults [in the 1920s and 1930s] regarded children’s toys and literature as much more than mere playthings or pastimes. They were intended to meet children’s psychological needs, which loomed increasingly large in adults’ minds. In 1938 Lois Barclay Murphy, a child psychologist, drove her family from New York to California. As they approached the Kansas border, her six-year-old daughter, Midge, demanded that the family avoid the state, because she did not want to be blown away like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.” –Steven Mintz, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood
Q. What’s better than “Send a Farmer to Congress?”
A. “Send a Trucker.” Tester for U.S. Senate!
When I get depressed about the direction of the country, I try to read about Montana to cheer myself up. It usually works. And it started with this guy.
WaPo feature writers discover my mom.
Warning: sarcasm ahead.
It must, since the Department of Homeland Security helped shut down EliteTorrents because of it.
I guess I’m relieved that they have all this free time to devote to protecting Lucas’s intellectual property. America must be pretty safe for DHS to be so concerned about Ep3’s bottom line. I mean, it only grossed $124.1 million in three days. I’m sure it would have done better if there weren’t people at home downloading it, and the fact that it didn’t bring in a cool quarter mil has more to do with BitTorrent than with the fact that diehard Eps 4-6 fans like me don’t give a shit any more.
Of course the ultimate master of the Star Wars domain is not Lucas, but cuddly ol’ Rupert Murdoch, so it’s no surprise that our anti-terrorism corps hopped to it so quickly.
…it’s a neat design, architecture and visual-culture blog.
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