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Entries from August 2008

The Stoned Olympics

August 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Czech archer Milan Andreas has had his Olympic dreams shattered after testing positive to marijuana.

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Tags: film · history

Screenings: Youth Without Youth and Capturing the Friedmans

August 20th, 2008 · No Comments

The production value is of the highest quality, and the film has a painterly look and mysterious texture very similar to Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain.

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Tags: film · Screenings

I’m a Spitball, but I’m not a soldier.

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments

If, like me, you have been hooked on the Olympics for the last week and a half, you have most likely seen this commercial from Nike.

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Tags: music · TV

Ask the Spitball: 18 August 2008

August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I read with interest your recipe for blueberry glace pie, and was wondering if you have ever tried that recipe with any other fruits as the main ingredient?

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Tags: Ask the Spitball · family · food

Random Song Machine: “Ragged Words” by Ben Weaver

August 17th, 2008 · No Comments

We were having an unseasonably warm, if slightly wet, day in Alabama, and Ben was wrapped in layers, as if he had prepared for the worst or, at least, a deer hunt.

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Tags: language · music · Random Song Machine

Her name shall be Barbara, and her hairballs will be Legion.

August 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

If cat Barbara could have ever been named after a particular person, though, her namesake would most likely have been my first grade teacher, SAM (our acronym for Sister Augustine Mary, who later changed her name back to Sister Barbara Mason), who telephoned me on my birthday one year and played “Las Mañanitas” on her trumpet.

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Tags: family · language

Everywhere a sign #16

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Stop!…Hammer time.

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Tags: music · signs

Everywhere a sign #15

August 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Stop, collaborate, and listen.

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Tags: ideas · signs

John McCain goes for the Swedish vote

August 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Blender magazine, while not necessarily perched at the top of the quality heap of music magazines, (But what is, anyway? Rolling Stone? No. Spin? No. Does Tiger Beat still publish?) has released lists of the top ten favorite songs of the two main U.S. Presidential candidates.

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Tags: music · politics

Dr. Spaccarelli, Superstar!

August 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

“Proudly, Dons, how we bathe…!”

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Tags: food · music