Month: January 2013
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Zero Dark Thirty
Jim and I played hookey Tuesday morning and went to see Zero Dark Thirty, partially because we had heard good things about the movie and partially because we wanted to see what all the fuss was about. (Slight digression: Dear Senators who don’t believe in the First Amendment: please understand that the more fuss you…
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Storytelling via Facebook
I posted the above photo on Facebook a couple of weeks ago, and a story emerged in the comments. I am copying the story here for amusement and to illustrate the power of social media (and the creativity of people who have too much time on their hands). The posters shall remain anonymous, to protect…
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Chronicles of the Mole Family, Chapter 15
So the original intent of the post was to show you before and after photos of our driveway and front yard as the final items to have been renovated before winter set in. Here they are: The more entertaining photo, however, is of a tree that crashed into our backyard…
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William, Victor (sort of), Charles and Peter
This past holiday break has allowed us to do some things that we don’t normally have time to do (like seeing 3-hour movies, but I digress). There were several productions that we saw that we very much liked. The first is the Shakespeare Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Harman Hall stage resulted in a…
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May’s Rules for Ragamuffins in Restaurants
Tom Sietsema, the food critic for the Washington Post, has a weekly online chat about various restaurant and food-related issues. Every so often, there are chatters who complain about parents who bring children into restaurants. So I have decided to write May’s Rules for Ragamuffins in Restaurants in response. (This is mostly a venting session…