June 2011
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Any interest in an August #chsh golf outing?
This just popped into my head…any interest in a very casual round of golf the day of the Main Event? We could find a course with public trans access or car pool…extremely non-competitive…just for fun and sunshine and beer?
Thoughts? Interest? Hit my asky or email john.scholvin at the gmailz…
May 2011
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(Not Very) Secret Tumblr Message
Thanks for the support, advice, creative phrases I can use, and offers for revenge, y’all.
Seriously. It’s good to know someone’s got my back. A lot of someones. Cheers.
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Impatiens
You can get a big tray of ‘em for about $15 at every Home Depot, garden store, and even most grocery stores this time of year here in Zone 6. Probably elsewhere, too. They grow just about anywhere. They’re common, easy to grow, pretty.
So, when it happens that a seven-year-old boy and his best friend accidentally let their ball get over the fence and into your yard, and they head over...
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mrsbadcrumble:
Oh hey, it’s raining! What...
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quixotekid replied to your photo: Do you like ivy? Well, first, I don’t think we…
Thou dare speak ill against the hallowed ivy walls of Wrigley Field? That’s just wrong on so many levels. I’m now going to go get me an Old Style, channel Harry Cary and sing Take Me Out To The Ball Game in honor of the best damn park in baseball.
Best damn park in baseball iff you like:
standing in other...
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The "Are You Fucking Kidding Me?" of the Day
lafix:
Virginia U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor said Tuesday that any spending costs associated with federal disaster funding for Joplin, Missouri, tornado victims must be offset with spending cuts.
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I wonder if Eric Cantor would be man enough to stand up and say that at the Joplin firehouse, or the hole in the ground where it used to be, as appropriate.
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A Garota de Ipanema
It’s almost as beautiful to read as it is to hear:
Olha que coisa mais linda, mais cheia de graça É ela menina que vem que passa Num doce balanço caminho do mar Moça do corpo dourado do sol de Ipanema O seu balançado é mais que um poema É a coisa mais linda que eu já vi passar Ah, porque estou tão sozinho Ah, porque tudo é tão triste Ah, a beleza que existe A beleza que não é só minha ...
fancyglasses:
Stan Getz & João Gilberto -...
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Today's Ledger
Assets:
Getting that garden box built, fulla dirt, and populated with a bunch of vegetables that, with care and good weather, will eventually make my children cry at the dinner table and barter with me over how many micrograms they must ingest to get dessert.
Another awesome baseball game with Danny. He loves to play. He’s a good kid. He wants to learn and he always tries hard. He can hit,...
underwhelmed:
Here’s your earworm for the day...
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Live Webcam from Sydney →
It’s 12:30pm Saturday there as I post this; shockingly, it looks like a beautiful day, and they’re all still alive and just doing Saturday Australian things. Running from giant spiders, putting out brush fires, adding the occasional extra “u” to words that end in “-or.”
Then again, I read today that the world will end at 6pm local time everywhere, so it’s...
DAMMIT TUMBLR LET ME POST AN UNSCALED FUNNY...
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“The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether...”
– Neal Stephenson (via mrsbadcrumble)
Quote from the greatest author in the history of words? ARB.
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Tuesday Pondering
There was some point in the past—I’m guessing when I was about ten, surely before I was twelve—that I held my father’s hand for the last time. He’s still here, we get along fine, there was no dramatic event, but there came a final time because there just was. Boys stop holding their daddies’ hands.
I wonder if he thought about it at the time. “That may...
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