Author Archives: shirty

Crazy Portraits

Jason who is a wedding photographer started taking photos of his two little daughters back in 2006 when his mom was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. The girls were constantly sick, with colds and coughs so he couldn’t always bring them to visit their grandmother. Jason wanted her to be able to see her granddaughters without [...]
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Modern Antiques

Church Key Many a barbecue and tailgate party was ruined in the pre-pop top days when it was discovered that no one had remembered to bring a church key to the proceedings. The pointy end punctured beer (and soda pop) cans open – one hole for pouring, one for a vent. The rounded end was [...]
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Corrections

A writer at the New York Times accidentally wrote that EB White worked at The New Yorker for 5 centuries, not decades.  A correction was published, and of course the wags are now having their way: An earlier version of this article misidentified the number of good books written by Jack Kerouac. It is zero. [...]
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Dressed for Success

Why did Missouri teen Maura Pozek make her prom dress out of cardboard and paper bags? Because after fashioning the previous two years' outfits out of Doritos bags and soda can tabs, “I had to top myself somehow.” This would be a cool kid to meet, I bet.  Her dresses are delightfully quirky, and the [...]
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Recipe: Baked Eggs in Tomato Sauce

Yes, please. today’s recipe: Baked Eggs in Chunky Tomato Sauce – Everyday Food Blog – MarthaStewart.com.
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Awkward Cat Sleeping Positions

My cat has slept in the sink, but not like this.  I have something to hope for. 25 Awkward Cat Sleeping Positions: #26-50.
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RIP Adam Yauch

Adam Yauch, aka MCA of the Beastie Boys, has died. Grieving commentators on the AV Club’s news report pointed to this amazing video for Shadrack as a memorial. The fact that a screechy white-boy rap band could conceive of a video so unusual and artistic should’ve been a good indication than there was a lot [...]
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Obi-Wan Kenobi in the News

And a follow up “Revenge of the 5th” post, though like most good Star Wars fans, I don’t recognise the prequels. Sean O’Neal writes the news reports for the AVClub, and he does it very, very well.  I find myself reading items for topics that have no interest to me, just to see what kind [...]
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The Tauntaun Song

May the fourth, etc. Last month I participated in A Musical Emergency, which is a loose collective of theater and music folks in SF that turns popular stories or movies into full length musicals. They divide the story up into bite sized chunks and everyone’s responsible for telling their part of the story however they [...]
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Mad Men Bowling

If you ever wanted to see Weird Al face off against Don Draper in bowling, your dreams have come true. I don’t bowl, but I do watch Mad Men, so this clip was an acceptable risk of my time.  Turns out, it was far more entertaining than it had any right to be.  I guess [...]
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