Month: April 2010
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WFF day two
The Topp Twins was a fun, heartwarming documentary about a couple of farm girls from New Zealand who grew up to become pop-folk singers, talented actors and comedians, successful fighters for civil rights and powerful activists for the country’s anti-nuclear fight. They threw in a generous helping of loving warmth from the bosom of the… Read.
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WFF day one
Last night was the first night (but not, for some reason, the “opening night”) of the Wisconsin Film Festival. We had tickets to see Fathers and Guns and OSS 117: Lost In Rio, a pair of comedies. I don’t see how you can go wrong starting off with a laugh. Fathers and Guns was sort… Read.
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bunny!
A quick pass with the lawn mower last Sunday uncovered the hiding place of this little guy in the tall grass next to the planter. The little pocket of grass he was curled up in didn’t look like a rabbit nest, which are usually lined with fur, so I assumed he was hiding out while… Read.
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Alas, Peppino’s
Peppino’s closed up shop in December, and the place is nearly empty now. I used to have dinner here with My Darling B every Friday the Thirteenth (November was the last). Now it’s waiting to become an entirely different Italian restaurant. I miss Peppino’s. Read.
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hickory dickory dock
We have mice. I figured the cats were keeping them down. Well, one of the cats, anyway. Bonkers is a pretty enthusiastic mouser, when one happens to cross his path, but, as it turns out, he doesn’t go out on the hunt to track them down. Boo is really very ambivalent about mice. They can… Read.
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SCIENCE!
When we stop at the thrift store each weekend we never have a solid idea what we would like to take home. Instead, we take a look at what they have to offer and, if something is truly attention-grabbing, and it’s dirt cheap, it goes in the basket. Such was the case with this week’s… Read.
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Up In The Air
I keep thinking about Up In The Air, the George Clooney movie we watched last night, and I keep coming back to the same conclusion: The Ending Sucked. It didn’t suck because I didn’t like it, although I didn’t. But I can put up with an ending I don’t like if it makes sense. This… Read.
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bench grinder
Bench Grinder. You gotta get yourself one of these. If you have any kind of tools that cut, chop or mulch, do yourself a huge favor and get a bench grinder and sharpen the blades of your cutting, shopping, and/or mulching tools. I bought it specifically to sharpen the blades of the wood chipper we… Read.
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looks are deceiving
This would probably fall under the heading of stuff I shouldn’t write about, but the longer I thought it over the more important I believed it was to share this: Before you call up your banker to bitch him out because you suspect last month’s interest payment on your loan was calculated wrong, get out… Read.
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