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Woodside Villa july 15 1885 Slept well — breakfasted clear up to my adams apple — took shawl strap and went to Boston with Damon with following memorandum of things to get.
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Newsflash!
(note: everything before the dateline is a headline in different fonts separated with a horizontal line. That’s how dramatic this story is.) MAD TO COMMIT SELF-MURDER Frenzied by Insomnia, Wertheim Exclaimed: “GUS, I AM GOING MAD!” HE TRIED TO BEAT OUT HIS OWN BRAINS. DASHED HIS HEAD THROUGH A WINDOW And Finally Tore Open His […]
Edisonblog!
Woodside Villa, July 14 1885. Dot introduced me to a new day at 5.30 am. Arose — toileted quickly — breakfasted — then went from boat to street car — asked colored gentleman, how long before car left — worked his articulating apparatus so weakly I didn’t hear word he said. — it’s nice to […]
March Reading
Downtown Owl Review
Downtown Owl, Klosterman. Yes. In discussing this book with my librarian, I learned that a more recent reading of 1984, and paying more attention, would have let me notice some things that Klosterman was doing. Noticing them might even not have annoyed me.
Bonus Phrase: Renal-fail-ey
Take a moment from your life to enjoy “Kidney Thieves” Kidney Thieves from Toby Wilkins on Vimeo.
Makers of Potato Wedge Sprinkle
In the midst of reading What the World Eats, and already I have learned about many foods I had never before heard of. Two interesting ones so far: Mitani Chicken Salt and Corn Soy Blend.
These are the people I serve, part two
In which teens are still being dopey, no one loses a limb, and adults react badly. The children didn’t light the candy. They crushed it into a fine powder in its wrapper, tore off one end, poured the powder into their mouths and blew out fine Smarties dust, mimicking a smoker’s exhale. The LEAST panicky […]
In Defense of Food Review
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Pollan. Non-fiction. This is an expansion of Pollan’s essay “Unhappy Meals” (which I talked about some time ago), in which he gives some reasoning that I find rather compelling for why we’re in the diet/health mess that we (the western world in general, but especially Americans) are in, […]
A couple C# book reviews
I think I’m just going to admit defeat on these two professional development books. I suspect part of my downfall is that they’re probably more intended as reference works than reading material.