avablog

Well, the week’s ending as it started. Thank goodness it was a short one. RIP, Harvey. If you never saw him in anything but Blazing Saddles, you still saw more comedic talent than you can find in any film made in the last 10 years. Gosh, this guy was good. Hedley Lamarr: My mind is [...]

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UPDATE: KCRG coverage From our facilities manager just now, via e-mail: Not sure of the facts … but it has been reported a bear has been seen in the Brown Deer Golf course area. Wickham School is in lock down. Will keep you posted as information is shared. Be careful out there….

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You know I can’t let Cindy get away with all the cuteness around here (here = WWW)! GAME ON! As always, click on the image for a larger version. This kid loves the fountain!

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Those wacky Brits: Miss Langton, 50, had asked a ranger where the steepest cliffs were and was told that there was a vertical drop to the west. After choosing a location she left her daughter, Olivia, 30ft away before jumping. Moments earlier Ivan Lissin, 22, who was climbing without a helmet, fell 30ft and banged [...]

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From Slate.com: The raw numbers indicate that 50 percent of teenagers aged 15 to 19 have had vaginal sex. Fifty-five percent have had heterosexual oral sex. Are kids substituting oral for vaginal? Nope. Among technical virgins—teens who have never had vaginal sex—23 percent have had oral sex. That number sounds high until you notice that [...]

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Subtitle: “See you in the emergency room!”

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We had a really nice weekend, culminating in a cookout at the house with friends last evening. I’m on a mission to try to get more pictures of Ava, and I’ve found that a sure way to get her to pose for me is to put her in an outfit she likes. For example: She [...]

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Maybe not weird. But a mishmash, at least. We drove to Burlington yesterday to visit our friends Bob and Judy and to take in the Snake Alley Criterium. What a great race. I have all sorts of pictures here. The vast majority of the pictures are of people riding bikes, but there are a couple [...]

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Leah and I finally got around to watching There Will Be Blood last night. It got me thinking.

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…often appear in public places (pg. 13). WARNING: Link loads 2.53MB PDF (it’s worth it)!

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I spent a fair amount of time as a youte lying on the couch in my mother’s basement in front of the TV. The best times were the weekends when Ted Turner was rocking out with The Guns of Navarone or The Quiet Man or Big Jake or The Greatest Show on Earth or Sargeant [...]

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What better way to brighten the mood than to bring Hitler into the mix? If you haven’t seen Downfall, do yourself a favor. Bruno Ganz is mesmerizing, and I don’t mean that in the usual People-Magazine-movie-review sense, either. More like the Elizabeth-Berkley-in-Showgirls* sense. You know what I’m talkin’ ’bout. *Or, if you prefer, the episode [...]

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I’ve been pretty dismayed by some of the interviews with Hillary supporters that’ve made it onto the evening news. I know it’s good modern journalism practice to head into the backwaters of Kentucky to interview some poor woman at a lunch counter about her uneasiness with Obama being a Muslim, and I’d probably dismiss it [...]

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…you make chili verde! I put four pork shoulder roasts in the fridge to thaw early last week in preparation for smoking them on the weekend. As luck would have it, there was a vendor selling salsa verde at the farmer’s market Saturday morning, so I grabbed a couple containers and commenced salivating at the [...]

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Leah and I tried a new restaurant on the advice of a friend this past Saturday evening (coincidentally, we ran into said friend when we arrived at the restaurant).

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It’s when someone else takes a picture of Ava that’s more awesome than anything I’ve taken. Witness: Nice work, Ben. Taken with a Canon XTi and a Sigma 17-70mm macro lens. SIGMA IN THE HOUSE!

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Which I guess is why this story makes the skin on my back wrinkle up like a Shar Pei’s pelt: A man tried to kill himself with a wood chipper in Roseville Thursday afternoon. The crew of a tree repair service company was clearing trees in a public area when the man appeared and jumped [...]

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I can just see it now: My child with pale, white skin; bright-red lipstick; and a tight miniskirt. Prancing on a stage. Brazenly showing her breasts. *help me*

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Often, when I return home from work on a Friday afternoon, Ava will have created something cool during her day off from school. Last week, I was particularly surprised to come up the front walk and find this chalk drawing in front of me:

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David Price has a book out on the (relatively short) history of Pixar, one of my favorite companies in the world.

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