Category: play
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Smooove
My Darling B made an avocado smoothie this morning and kept some aside for me. I eagerly slurped it up, and I say that as a man who would not have slurped up anything with avocado in it until B started experimenting with foods like this. I was not a big fan of avocado because… Read.
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Doughnut
I spent about three hours trying to figure out how to make this goddamned thing. I needed a great big doughnut-shaped piece of plywood sixty inches across I could lay a curve of railroad track on. The easiest way to do this is: Get a sheet of plywood sixty inches wide, draw a big circle… Read.
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No Such Thing
As I grabbed my coffee mug and headed to the kitchen for a refill, My Darling B asked me, “Haven’t you had enough coffee already?” Her comment provoked a puzzled frown and a pregnant pause from me. When my brain finished processing her comment and came up with nothing, I was finally able to speak:… Read.
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Oishii desu!
It’s not like Madison needs another restaurant, but we’re pretty happy that Umami opened on Willy Street anyway. We stopped there for dinner after work today and each slurped up a bowl of ramen the likes of which we’ve not enjoyed since we left Japan almost six years ago. We’ve tried ramen at a few… Read.
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Clamp this!
Cleats! Millions of ’em! I’ve been gluing these little bastards to the benchwork all week long, five at a time, because I have ten two-inch C-clamps and that’s all. I could go buy more, but I’m such a cheapskate that I haven’t been able to bring myself to bust open my wallet and spend a… Read.
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So Close
My Darling B has been in the kitchen all morning stewing a batch of chicken thighs in saffron and a bunch of other yummy-smelling stuff, in preparation for turning them into meat pies. After stewing them, she piled them on a platter, placed the platter on the dining room table, then went to work on… Read.
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Talkies
Tickets went on sale for the Wisconsin Film Fest at noon today. We had the films we wanted to see picked out the night before and sat waiting with the web browser of the most dependable computer in the house parked on the film fest web site, mouse-clicking finger poised ready to hit the “buy… Read.
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Hot Pink
A few of our picks for the upcoming Wisconsin Film Fest, if you’re interested: Wednesday, March 30th 13 Assassins: “Takashi Miike’s rousing spectacle is a remake of a little-known 1963 film by the same title, but is clearly the heir to the ultimate posse-gatherer, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. As his crimes against humanity are detailed… Read.
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Your Argument Is Invalid
And now, time for Ask An Atheist: Q: How can you have any morals if you don’t believe in god? A: For many years I’ve heard atheists dance around this question, claiming they can form their own perfectly respectable moral codes using logic or ethics or other rhetoric that sounds actually kinda plausible. But here,… Read.
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Apollo 18
The announcement that there’d soon be a movie released about Apollo 18 caught my eye because it had the word “Apollo” in it and because there was no 18th mission to the moon. This monster movie is supposed to explain why that is, which got me all jazzed up because, you know, rockets and astronauts… Read.
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