Stuck in a Groove
As Steve mentioned, XM Radio had a Memorial Day special on one of its channels in which they played all 253 #1 songs from […]
As Steve mentioned, XM Radio had a Memorial Day special on one of its channels in which they played all 253 #1 songs from […]
Ann Arbor blogger Edgewise has an interesting self-debate over what is possibly the ultimate bugaboo of politics these days, abortion. He brings up some […]
A brave statement for a librarian to be making these days: A children’s book depicting a masked burglar pointing a gun at a woman […]
This is an awesome idea, especially in light of the recent vicious assaults on an art gallery owner in San Francisco’s North Beach. [CCA […]
Americans are increasingly a clueless and brutal lot. Latest case in point: a San Francisco woman is forced to shut down her art gallery, […]
I took the first mid-term for my Brigham Young University independent study geography course Saturday—an undertaking necessary, says the state of Michigan, before I […]
The latest issue of Airways magazine, the 100th, reports the following tidbit about a Harris Poll ranking 60 major American companies by reputation and […]
Weather today was really nice, not too muggy, sunny and warm later in the afternoon and evening. I walked home from campus after a […]
I saw a bunch of different kinds of sparrows outside on my way to work this afternoon, and, of course, the usual contingent of […]
I recognized none of the birdsong I heard walking home tonight. The daunting Birds of Michigan (Auburn, WA: Lone Pine Publishing, 2003) makes you […]
Weird how eerily quiet it was tonight ….. except for the occasional sound of what had to be firecrackers in the distance. Is today […]
My first time in the Fine Arts Library in Tappan Hall today. It’s a smaller library than the behemoths next door, but it’s got […]
Crazy Wisdom Books on 114 South Main is worth a visit at least once. They’re well-stocked. They have two floors, one with a fairly […]
Apparently everyone’s not universally thrilled with the new Seattle Public Library. A blog called Caminothoughts opines: Will it take half the electricity production of […]
It just started pouring rain. Forget what I said.
We went to Tios the other night. Very good Mexican restaurant (odd location, though, across the street from the Ann Arbor News building and […]
The New York Times has an amusing article today about blogging. It’s essentially the same idea as most articles or mainstream media treatments these […]
The sun seems to be making a reappearance the past two days. It’s in and out, but it’s definitely there. I would say I […]
One of the State Theater’s recent offerings was “Latter Days.” It was not a great movie, but after seeing it, it’s difficult for me […]
From an introduction to an otherwise typically dry BBC story tonight about an international NGO conference: Host: Hello, Francis. Reporter: Hello, Max, how are […]
I know that they’re the coming evil mark of the beast destroyer of privacy hand in glove with the USAPATRIOT Act, but after spending […]
Flooding in St. Clair County ….. a tornado watch in 15 southeastern Michigan counties till 11.00 ….. over a dozen tornadoes swept through southern […]
Weather has been much calmer in the past 24 hours. There were a few scattered raindrops when I took the dog out a few […]
… And then there’s a whole discussion thread (same site) about libraries in which someone says she never goes to libraries because the thought […]
Someone wrote in to I Love Books asking what it was like to work in a bookstore. Here’s one answer: You don’t sit around […]
From Tuesday’s Ann Arbor News: A 34-year-old man admitted he punched a pedestrian in the face in Liberty Plaza Park in downtown Ann Arbor […]
There’s an article in today’s Ann Arbor News about cafes that you may have seen. I’m happy to say Ambrosia wasn’t mentioned in it […]
A quote from his new book, On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) In the Future Tense (quote courtesy New York […]
Where to begin? The Pixies are back together for a reunion tour, are not apparently tearing each other limb from limb, and are like […]
Ref Grunt has closed its doors. Long live Refgrunt.com, although its posts appear to be dismayingly intermittent.
There are many cool things about Michigan weather, I’ve discovered. One is that it’s so unpredictable (within reason). Another is the months of snow, […]
Ambrosia, which is staffed by a bunch of avid, amiable fishing enthusiasts who would probably be much, much happier in Berkeley if it weren’t […]
I walked through the connector between the undergraduate and graduate libraries yesterday and today on my way to work. Late yesterday afternoon, an impressive […]
Acording to Atlas of Michigan (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1977), which places this paragraph above a path map of an apparently really […]
Before Ann Arbor became Storm Central in the past 48 hours, birds were everywhere. One reader (and someone who knows her avians), Dorothea of […]
Okay, Yankees, when the sky turns as dark and ugly GREEN as it did at 2:30 this afternoon, that means you’ve got yourself a […]
The title of a paper given by MIT meterology professor and chaos theorist Edward Lorenz at the American Association for the Advancement of Science […]
We had a ‘possible-tornado-producing’ storm last night with blowing sirens and one-inch hail and minor flooding in Ypsi and a house burned after a […]
How fun to get something like this in your e-mail box at midnight: ‘On Monday, May 17, the University of Michigan Administrative Information Services […]
More stuff on the Seattle Public Library from LISNews: The New Yorker calls the new central library “the most important new library to be […]
Today’s LISNews links to a New York Times article about Fundrace.org, an intriguing site that allows you to track campaign contributions by neighborhood. This […]
According to the radio, not only are cicadas on the way (though so far the hype has exceeded the reality), but gypsy moths, European […]
Still no cicadas to speak of. Steve says it’s not been consistently warm enough for them to want to come out. I have, however, […]
Tony Randall passed on Monday, followed yesterday by Elvin Jones, probably the greatest drummer (never mind greatest “jazz drummer”) who ever lived. Jones was […]
No titillating “overheards” from Ambrosia today; just a bunch of employees meeting over cheesecake and listening to their benefits person yack about how awesome […]
In a mere 25 minutes or so, the first homo marriages in the United By-God States of Amurrica will take place in Massachusetts. [sarcasm] […]
Before the dandelion adventure, we paid a brief visit to the University of Michigan Museum of Art. (We were thinking of doing part of […]
Haven’t seen this many dandelions in a town ever. Like with the squirrels, AA believes in plenty of something. Opus Bayley took a much-needed […]
Looks like « someone wrote a really good letter to the editor of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal », right there in full red-meated Dubya country. […]
I had this conversation with a friend not too long ago: If you have a ton of books to choose from to read, what’s […]