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Entries from July 2009

Playlist: Do the South

July 21st, 2009 · No Comments

Birmingham Magazine’s online music column recently proposed a playlist that would take listeners on a journey through the South. In addition to posting their list, they opened up for reader submissions. I posted one…

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Tags: food · history · music · politics

Protected: Pat to Ida: 26 April 1944 (letter 1)

July 20th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Tags: food · Ida & Pat

V.O.D.: Nirvana vs. Rick Astley

July 19th, 2009 · No Comments

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Tags: music

Protected: Pat to Ida: 25 April 1944

July 18th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Kittens!…inspired by…Kittens!

July 17th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Okay, so this is just a video post, but I dare you not to laugh!

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Tags: books

Protected: Pat to Ida: 24 April 1944 (letter 2)

July 16th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Oceanside sunset: 20 December 2008

July 15th, 2009 · No Comments

I captured this little scene while on the balcony of a condo during a gathering of high school friends in Oceanside, California. The photographer in the lower left-hand corner makes this video oddly self-referential: I was also using a tripod. Notice how he cues me that the filming has come to an end.

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Tags: My Eye

Protected: Pat to Ida: 24 April 1944 (letter 1)

July 14th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Tags: health · Ida & Pat · music

Reunion Journal: 31 July 2008, part 2 (Getting There)

July 13th, 2009 · No Comments

It is easy to identify with the book’s protagonist and author Jean-Dominique Bauby, in full-body paralysis, as I am wedged between the triple-pane airplane porthole and Diane and Walter, curled up in a human ball next to me with their DVD player.

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Tags: books · film · politics

Protected: Ida to Pat: 23/24 April 1944

July 12th, 2009 · Enter your password to view comments.

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Tags: food · Ida & Pat