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Since I’m starting grad school and parking and transportation around central campus is a pain, I decided to start biking it. Only problem: My […]
Since I’m starting grad school and parking and transportation around central campus is a pain, I decided to start biking it. Only problem: My […]
This appears on the front cover of the hyped-to-death Karen Joy Fowler novel The Jane Austen Book Club (Miss Austen would be most amused […]
Reading it so you don’t have to ….. A full-page ad hawking Toni Morrison’s new line of handsome paperback editions of her novels “with […]
The man who exposed serious security flaws in airport security was « sentenced to probation this week »: ‘A college student who says he hid box […]
United is reporting that « it lost $94 million in May alone »: ‘United Airlines said in a bankruptcy court filing Thursday that it posted a […]
So after all the wrangling and expense, not to mention the Republicans’ largest expansion of the federal government in American history, « airport screening is […]
Just when I thought I’d never agree with anything Dale Peck said, he goes and says this in an interview with Ellen Heltzel: Why […]
It’s somewhat amusing to see that John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces, a novel that was on Stanford’s Summer Reading List for incoming […]
An Okie brings new meaning to the term ‘Activist Judge:’ ‘While seated on the bench, an Oklahoma judge used a male enhancement pump, shaved […]
I’d never really listened to the lyrics of Sheryl Crow’s “Soak up the Sun” before (it was playing in the Village Apothecary when I […]
Lollapalooza 2004 has been cancelled this year due to crappy ticket sales. Perry Farrell, in a message posted on the festival’s official site, wrote, […]
People like to refer to places like San Francisco, Austin, Ann Arbor, Madison and Berkeley, etc., et al, as leftist bubbles … Ann Arbor […]
June is much busier in ASquared than May, I’ve noticed. Besides the usual skateboarders and bike riders and summer students, there is now also […]
It’s a gorgeous, temperate evening. The beagle and I walked down the street and just sat on the lawn for quite awhile, watching things […]
So how do you like our new clothes? Much better, I hope. Here are some notes about the new design/location: You might not have […]
Bill Clinton: ‘I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinski.’ George W. Bush: ‘I have never ordered torture. I will never order […]
Pardon the mess around here, but we’re getting very close to finishing this one off. As of today, you can read the main posts, […]
Yesterday, I left work and it was raining, and it was even approaching cold out. Glad I wore a long-sleeved shirt. Today, on the […]
Re the recent cicada infestation, the eminent arbiters of the New York Times have pontifically decreed that it was all a huge hypefest: This […]
Fair warning after visiting two Targets in two days and being fed up: Next time I’m in a store and I hear some fool […]
A nice day (again). Perfect for a drive out to Matthaei Botanical Gardens, where, as you can see in the photos in the previous […]
An incredibly beautiful day ….. and surprisingly temperate given the last several days of high humidity. The most amazing thing I saw today was […]
Reading it so you don’t have to ….. Laura Miller thinks I’m OK – You’re OK and Games People Play: The Psychology of Human […]
Very humid today (though not that hot). But I have a feeling this is just the beginning. The real pressure-cooker heat days haven’t even […]
I think we’re finally getting a handle on this TextDrive/TextPattern thing and it’s beyond cool, once they get the jams kicked out. Now that […]
I was wrong when I wrote a while back “Nothing in Washtenaw.” Apparently the cicadas are all over Superior Township. Weird.
There’s a thread over at LISNews about Bloomsbury and James Joyce and Ulysses and the whole hundred-year mark thing. I’m greatly enjoying the history. […]
We’re back, it seems. Thanks to some hard effort by David in San Francisco and advice from Jason at TextDrive, the Beagle is back. […]
A hot, humid, sauna-like day is just turning interesting … they announced a tornado warning for Washtenaw County and blew the storm sirens in […]
There will be some sorta higgledy-piggledyness on airbeagle.com today and maybe into tomorrow; I’m switching the site to a more sane and less snarky, […]
There will be some sorta higgledy-piggledyness on airbeagle.com today and maybe into tomorrow; I’m switching the site to a more sane and less snarky, […]
The funny thing is that the Ann Arbor News ran an article today indicating that the first Washtenaw cicada sightings have occurred: The emergence […]
From the ‘Sorry we tortured your uncle, raped your wife, blew your kid’s legs off and destroyed your home and livelihood, but at least […]
No cicadas in Philadelphia this year. The Philadelphia Inquirer theorizes that it’s possible that an increase in concrete in areas where cicadas may have […]
The hagiography being written (presumably with an eye to sainthood and a spot on Rushmore, as well as his name on everything that will […]
Post-skunking, the dog is asleep here in the basement with me, exhausted but otherwise okay. The spraying was unpleasant, but it could have been […]
Tonight’s lesson, boys and girls: When the geriatric dog suddenly comes up off the floor like a rocket and runs over to the screen […]
And then there’s bulldozing the library as a solution to life’s problems.
According to Cicada Mania, cicadas in southern Ohio and Indiana, eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Long Island ….. still nothing in Washtenaw. The weather’s supposed […]
Amazing (at least to those of us like me who have not yet figured out that phones are more than phones) but true.
Goodspeed is signing off. Too bad. I’m not alone, I know, in saying that I’ll miss his blog.
….. would Jennifer Granholm fall (for nine minutes) for a radio “morning crew” stunt in which the person supposedly on the other end of […]
No strange critter sightings today, but it was mordantly amusing (then completely irritating, then vaguely humiliating) to stand waiting for over 15 minutes for […]
Ann Arbor didn’t make the first wave of Cool Cities grants; Ypsilanti, however, did. Hearty congratulations, Ypsi.
Stolen from I Love Books: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary [1911] Greil Marcus: Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock’N’Roll Music [1975] David Nasaw: […]
They were in the back of the bus this afternoon, two off-duty AATA drivers, exchanging war stories about belligerent passengers, snotty passengers, or moronic […]
Michigan’s full of them. What was that strange, frightened critter (light brown, about the size of a small dog but very rodent-like, resembling a […]
Almost a month later and still no cicadas ….. A quick check of Cicada Mania shows there have been sightings in Cincinnati and southern […]
Question of the Day while subbing at one of Ann Arbor’s two high schools: ‘Hey, Mr. Sub Man, Sir? What’s a Baroness?’
A story on Michigan Radio a few minutes ago mentioned that this past month was the rainiest May in southeast Michigan on record—8.6 inches […]