A short delay at the airport. What better way to pass the time than eavesdropping and clicking around the internet. Overheard at MDW:
Female twenty-something: “So, like we got this new girl in the office. Yeah, she’s from the LA Times, she’s really nice, and she’s really good. Those kinds of people really worry me.”
And:
Kids’s letter […]
I get my:
+ coffee at A Common Ground
+ kielbasa at Ostrowski’s
+ cookies at Vaccaro’s
+ bread at il Scalino
+ wine at The Wine Source
Reptilian Records’ 17th Anniversary Grand Reopening at the Ottobar
Dactyl
Lubricated Goat
MRT
Bazaart!
AVAM […]
Where my mind’s been:
- Condi Rice gets reviewed in the Times.
- Andy Rooney talks about education. A generation of “cultural idiots”—haha.
- Ian Burama on Park Chanwook.
- Paris-Roubaix 2006: Cancellara attacks, Hincapie snaps, Boonen derailed delayed at the tracks.
- Hello Jesse and Joe—two Michigan MUSICOL 501 friends!
Recently Read: Invisible Cities and Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino, […]
Two interesting stories from today’s Weekend Edition Sunday:
- Did you know that pipe organs can be a source of pollution? Organ builders in the European Union are having to search for different metals to build their pipes with as a mean of adapting to a new EU environmental directive aimed at reducing the amount of […]
I don’t know what these numbers are that Alex is talking about, but when I visited the blog that tells you a lot about these numbers, something very strange happened. I was visitor number 0010774. Why is this strange? My birthday is October 4, 1977. Weird.
A couple new blogs added to the list. Piano blogging: The Well-Tempered Blog. And the smart On An Overgrown Path.
Around the web: Are you a music snob? And the Yankees v. Red Sox rivalry plays out in the blogosphere.
Actually, not much. Yelling, “On your left!” to pedestrians taking up too much of the bike path. Learning lots of new music for concerts. Waiting for Paris-Roubaix. Enjoying NPR uninterrupted now that the pledge drive is over (finally . . . ). Listening to Decasia and Drumming. Conspiring with Helen. Reminder: visit the Japan Society’s […]
Non-Zero plays Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA tonight. Works by Hillary Zipper, Lou Bunk,