Category: play
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grilling with lumber
Tonight’s dinner was not cooked on lumber. That means just what it says. I prepared and served a delicately broiled slab of salmon for guy night, and I did it without making a trip to the work shop to dig a rough-sawn cedar plank or a leftover length of select pine from the lumber pile.… Read.
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LeGuin
If you like to read fiction but you’ve never read science fiction because of the geek factor, or you’ve tried but you found it too technical or fantastic, you ought to give Ursula Le Guin’s work a try before you give up on the genre entirely. She doesn’t write just science fiction; she’s well-known for… Read.
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voiceovers
The only movies that need voice-overs, the background chatter from one of the main characters to explain what’s going on, fall generally into one of two camps: they’re either film noir detective movies, or they’re not very good. Or (I’m all about giving you options) in the case of the Dennis Quaid sort-of detective flick… Read.
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apollo model
My basement workshop filled with the reek of burning plastic as I cut the hatch out of my scale model Apollo command module this afternoon. I want to display it with the hatch open and the model doesn’t come with a removable hatch, dammit. What would be so hard about that? It’s probably better that… Read.
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promenade
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creepy bot
I’d been sitting beside the phone for about an hour waiting for a phone call from the technician who’s supposed to come fix my dish washer. At some time this morning he promised to call and tell me when he’d be on the way. When the phone finally rang, it turned out to be a… Read.
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Mad City Model Rail Road Show
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eating people for breakfast
Neither My Darling B nor I are breakfast-eating people. I had to think awhile about how to punctuate that sentence so it implied we were people who didn’t usually eat breakfast, and not so that it sounded like we would even think of eating people for breakfast. Because we do, every morning. Everybody in Madison… Read.
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second dance lesson
Wow, dancing’s hard. Our instructor keeps impressing on us how easy it is, and I guess I have to agree with him. A Foxtrot two steps forward, on step to the side, bring your feet together, and keep repeating that for as long as the music continues. Really, you’d think anybody should be able to… Read.
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fifteen on the fifteenth
Yesterday was the fifteenth, and every month on the ides our favorite liquor store hosts a wine tasting and gives a fifteen percent discount on all the wine in their store that isn’t already on sale. It’s not hard to explain why Star is our favorite liquor store. I’m not snooty about wine, or maybe… Read.
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