Mar 12-18, 2008
The Animal Issue: Conservationists Roger Payne; On the Job With an Equine Dentist; Vets Who Favor Felines; Following Wild Tracks; Raising Chickens in Town
Honk If You’re Irish!
Diane and I left work for our annual jaunt upstreet to witness the splendor that is the S.D. Ireland Cement Truck Parade. They were…
Why do animals make for such good allegories?
This video, posted by a young climate activist, has nothing to do with anything, really. But I like it, mostly. It reminds me of the…
Bloggers, Journalists and Sourcing
Here’s a little Vermont blogger inside baseball news for you. Last Friday, VPR aired a report raising questions about the political motives behind the crackdown…
St. Paddy’s Day Song Parody
If you didn’t already know, I’m a pretty big geek. I love obscure trivia, etymology, Latin, fantasy and science fiction novels, role playing games, collecting…
Dear Sweet Jesus
I was just looking up images of motivational posters… long story, don’t ask… and I came across this website….
Fingertip Reader at Disney World Turnstiles
File this under the “We Really Are Turning Into a Police State” Department. From Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing:Today in my ongoing series of photos…
Risky Business
It’s nice to have an outlet like Blurt when I’m cruising the Internet late at night and come across a funny, yet terrifying, video like…
Conservative Humor
The right-wing funny bone is not connected to anything. How Barack won in VermontBlogged with the Flock Browser…
Photobooth article in NYT
Hey, remember the article I did on Nakki Goranin’s Photobooth book and exhibit? The New York Times interviewed her and included more slide shows. Very…
Remember Alfred E. Neuman?
Even though Mad magazine doesn’t exist anymore, it seems like everyone knows this face. Maybe because he’s now in the White House? Click the picture…
Bubble? What Bubble?
In a videoconference on Thursday, President Bush listened to reports on Afghanistan from military and civilian personnel and said he was “a little envious” of…
Get Thee Behind Me, Satan
I consider myself a “social” sinner, as opposed to a hardcore one. You know… the occasional inappropriate thought or uncharitable reaction to my fellow man….
Nazis on Vacation
Couldn’t sleep last night, so I caught up on my magazine reading. Came across an article in this week’s New Yorker about a newly discovered…
But I Do Remember This
We saw Steve Earle in Montreal a couple weeks ago, and about a third of the way through the show, the power went out in…
Tina Fey is Right About Bitches
This is a little bit old, but you should hear it straight from the bitch’s mouth. She’s right, of course, about getting stuff done. The…
Never Mind the Bollocks…
Ever catch yourself doing an unimaginably weird Google search? It happened to me today when I typed “testicle car ornament” into the search engine, hoping…
Pick Your Nose
I also really need these: And just about everything from that aforementioned website. My birthday’s not ’til July, but that shouldn’t stop you….
Toasted Notes
I really, really need this… The description says: This piping hot slice of toast is pretty hard to miss on your desktop, so you’ll always…
Bad Blogger!
Umm, you may have noticed my sudden disappearance of late, and instead of hoping that you haven’t, I figured I’d come clean and tell you…
Funny Games coming to the Roxy
I spent about an hour yesterday reading the online debates about Funny Games, a 1997 movie by Austrian director Michael Haneke. The director just made…
What’s He Been Smoking?
Responsible TV-news viewers — a shrinking subset that, I suspect, includes the Blurt audience — probably missed Bill O’Reilly’s Talking Points Memory the other night,…
St. Michael’s Day
St. Mike’s administrators are totally loving us this week. For this week’s “Campus Question,” St. Mike’s student Jon Taylor asked some of his fellow purple…
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Space Tiger [SIV70]
3/6/08: Space Tiger is a fledgling local rock band that consists of father/son team Mike Deutsch and Aiden Patterson Deutsch with Chris Kiper on…
Cultivating Relationships
Side Dishes: Local refugees are out of Africa, into gardening
Science and Fiction
Art Review: “Between Soft Machines and Hard Science: The Interstitial Art of W. David Powell,” an installation of digital prints and historic scientific instruments. Fleming Museum, UVM, Burlington.
Theater Review: Three Days of Rain
How well do we ever really know our parents? The pursuits and passions that filled their lives prior to parenthood seem irrelevant to the me-centered…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again New York City prosecutors accused undercover police detective Sean Johnstone, 34, of tampering with drug evidence after listening to a tape recording…
Free Will Astrology
March 12-19 ARIES (March 21-April 19): He “cleans up well” is prison lingo. It refers to a convict who, upon leaving jail, is able to…
Giant Snow Woman Spotted In Maine
Is it an irradiated Frosty run amok? The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in Christmas drag? No! It’s a Guinness World Record! My spouse forwarded me…
Adolescent Accent Humor
This woman was interviewed on NPR the other day — last night I checked it out on YouTube and found this cool satire….
Ten Years After
In the most recent “Hackie” column, “A Friend of Grace,” I write about two customers of mine, Gracie and Janet. After penning this story, it…
Spitzer Update
Well, it’s official. While previously seen with politicos like Howard Dean, Patrick Leahy and Madeline Kunin, The House of LeMay denies any connection with NY…
Food Court: The Musical
The Grand Central video was great, but this one is even better. Sixteen secret agents from Improv Everywhere perform a musical for unsuspecting diners at…
