Look at Sister Helen Prejean in the lower right hand corner. Way to go Abe Bonowitz and New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty! What a huge victory in moving our country forward!
Monday, December 17, 2007
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Southern Festivals, Last Bastions of a Dying Culture
On my most recent trip back to the land of my birth, I was reminded yet again of how California will never compare to the unassuming, good country people I've left behind. Oh Georgia-line, even in my moments frustration with some of your more dated ways, I am still proud to count myself amongst your native sons!
So, in the name of all that is good, I will now make the most feeble attempt to share these simple pleasures of civil fraternity with a wider audience. We must patronize and cherish them with all our might! These festivals are our last hope of warding off the inevitable cultural homogenization wrought by great weather and cheap housing prices.
The Okra Strut
The SC Poultry Festival (My sister was runner-up this past year in the Miss Poultry Pageant!)
On my most recent trip back to the land of my birth, I was reminded yet again of how California will never compare to the unassuming, good country people I've left behind. Oh Georgia-line, even in my moments frustration with some of your more dated ways, I am still proud to count myself amongst your native sons!
So, in the name of all that is good, I will now make the most feeble attempt to share these simple pleasures of civil fraternity with a wider audience. We must patronize and cherish them with all our might! These festivals are our last hope of warding off the inevitable cultural homogenization wrought by great weather and cheap housing prices.
The Okra Strut
The SC Poultry Festival (My sister was runner-up this past year in the Miss Poultry Pageant!)
Allendale's Spring Cooter Fest (My new favorite, although shamefully I've never been)
Friday, February 09, 2007
Thank you, Mr. Melville.
"Silence reigned over the before tumultuous but now deserted deck. An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus , was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea."
I've never read a more beautifully described sunset, and I dare you to find one either! If you can bear the useless compendium of whale and whaling know-how, I highly recommend Moby Dick. I read it a while ago, and every tenth chapter or so more than made up for the nine preceding. Oh the beautiful humanity.
"Silence reigned over the before tumultuous but now deserted deck. An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus , was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea."
I've never read a more beautifully described sunset, and I dare you to find one either! If you can bear the useless compendium of whale and whaling know-how, I highly recommend Moby Dick. I read it a while ago, and every tenth chapter or so more than made up for the nine preceding. Oh the beautiful humanity.