I realized this week that it was fifteen years ago last month that I graduated from high school back in Minnesota, back in the US. Now it’s impossible to guess on that day where you will be in fifteen years (and I don’t think I would have ever guessed England!) and who you will [...]
Regardless of how you feel about the politics of what’s being said about the US’s consumerist culture, the artwork shown here from Chris Jordan is really cool. I admit, I have always been Seurat-obsessed and this use of every day items to create the same effect is amazing. My favorites are the barbie [...]
I have come to the conclusion that a big difference between American and British grammar in daily practice is in the Brits’ tendency to abbreviate. The discussion on “port of last departure” versus (the more specific but longer) “airport of…” yesterday, the “can I help?” statement, the “Big Issue, please” phrase and others. [...]
Or, the anti-feminist digest, as I like to call it.
Leaders in England are finally calling for “positive discrimination” or what the Americans tend to call “affirmative action” in hiring practices. I can completely go for that, but apparently this is shocking to some avenues of British society, given this reaction: “White men to [...]
Today the Minneapolis-based blogger James Lileks has a few clips from “The Big Sleep” and I highly recommend them, if you’re into that sort of thing (like I am). (The clips are about half-way down the page.) The Bogie-Bacall obsession is a relatively recent one for me. My primary 1940s film star romance [...]
And these three things are not related and I’m not going to pretend that they are!
Thing 1: This book, “Rules, Brittania” looks like fun. I’ll have to grab a copy and see what I’ve been doing wrong these last (almost) two years. When you search for it on Amazon you get a bunch of other [...]
Yesterday I got to do the small-town summertime festival thing. Lots and lots of volunteer hours and efforts go into these festivals; even suburban towns like the one where I grew up in Minnesota have a summer weekend devoted to celebrating their town-ness. Lots and lots of people with white hair are involved, [...]
I recall when Target in my neighborhood in the US switched to a policy of “Open 8 am to 10 pm, 7 days a week” and the only time one had to think about whether Target was open was pre-Christmas (often open until 11) and certain holidays. When I was a kid Target was not [...]
It’s unseasonably warm and sunny here in Britain this week, so this evening I had all of the windows in my flat wide open. I was sitting at my computer (yes, the fun of my job never EVER ends… 
when I heard some indistinguishable noise in the background. It grew louder, and after [...]
So I took a keen interest in this past weekend’s 50th birthday of Prince, a fellow Minneapolitan who does NOT look 50. I look older than he does. Anyways, courtesy GraphJam:
What can I say, this is what it sounds like when doves cry. And in August I will be home to purify [...]
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