I have a dear and old friend who lives in New Orleans. He has lived in the French Quarter for the past few years. He loves New Orleans, and he has always sounded profoundly at home there. I have never had the fortune of visiting, but his stories about being there have always made the...
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26-Aug-0525-Feb-26Teenage Angst
Approval from Jerry Falwell
Gosh. I feel so … honored. « Jerry Falwell now approves of me getting my master’s in elementary education », as long, of course, as I don’t ‘recruit’ the little buggers … whatever that means: ‘“I don’t think homosexuals should be granted a special minority status,” he told the paper. However, he said that gays, including teachers,...
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14-Aug-0525-Feb-26Uncategorized
Finally Admitting What the Rest of Us Have Known for Three Years
« Oops! Our Bad. »: ‘The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months, according to U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad. The United States no longer...
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11-Aug-0525-Feb-26Ann Arbor
27th Most Liberal City in the US
According to a new study released by the « Bay Area Center for Voting Research », Ann Arbor is the 27th most liberal city in the country (Detroit is 1st, San Francisco 9th, Flint 10th, New York 21st).
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11-Aug-0525-Feb-26Ann Arbor
Birds of Summer
Saw a bird hopping around on the grass on my way to the bus stop Tuesday morning that I couldn’t identify (nothing new there, I still can’t identify most birds) — gray and brown tail feathers in alternating patterns, sort of robin-sized, and sporting a prominent bright red spot on the nape of its neck....
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10-Aug-0525-Feb-26Ann Arbor
Price of Tea
Recently the price of tea went up from $1.59 to $2.12 at my favorite pitstop, Cafe Ambrosia. Seeing as how the price hadn’t been hiked in 2 years, they were entitled to charge a little more. Nonetheless, there’s a subtle psychological barrier that makes it unappealing to buy a pint glass of tea for over...
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09-Aug-0525-Feb-26Uncategorized
Summer Already Winding Down
Looks like the undergrads are starting to stream back into town … a sure sign summer is coming to an end after the zenith (if you can term it that) of Art Fair. No tidal wave yet — I walked home from campus this evening and the neighborhoods around East University and Packard are still...
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01-Aug-0525-Feb-26Uncategorized
New Gallery: Burns Park Beagle
« 30-Jul-05: Burns Park Beagle ».