RIP Muppets
Remember that time when the Muppets weren’t advertising cars and iced tea? That was awesome.
Alison Wilder
Stay out of the march?
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is a once-in-ten-generations kind of project. It will be remembered either for saving the human race or for being the most colossal waste of effort in human history. All the wealthy countries are pouring cash into this giant energy-donut, and its acronym (ITER) has an “I-love-sci-fi-but-the-kind-that-stars-Bruce-Willis” Latin translation: “the way.” … Read more
What will the big, dumb animals do today?
We bought a sofa at the family furniture story in Plymouth yesterday from a woman named Peggy* — mid-sixties, fine bone structure, blue eyes, wrinkles that caused her great stress. She wore the Plymouth, NH version of fashion for women of a certain age: leopard print head scarf, flowy, bright layers, maybe a vest, tights, … Read more
Inclement weather
Due to inclement weather, I will be closing today at 12:56 PM. #snowpocalypse
Having the best New Hampshire day ever:
kayaking and sailing in a little single-person sailboat this morning, sandwiches for lunch, floating with Kona lager on a floatie chair in the pond this afternoon, then a lobster for dinner tonight. Ahhhh.
I <3 the Lying Down Game
Fun Facebook post from 2009…I had lots of time on my hands after I moved to Montreal and before school started. No job, no school, and an immense amount of energy.
Heading to the Beaty-Broom Sanitarium…
err, my mom’s house in lovely rural New Hampshire to take in the clean air and recover.