I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold William Carlos Williams, 1962 In the latest installment of This American Life, available for download here, commentators discuss this poem by William Carlos Williams. I remember studying [...]
Time’s website has an intriguing photoessay up, chronicling the differences in the average diets of families across the globe. The photos are taken from Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluzio. Quite the fascinating insight, especially when comparing the costs of eating per week. Out of that set, the German [...]
Phew. I have recovered from the near heart attack I had during the last two minutes of regulation time, but am still kind of stunned. Go Jayhawks! photo courtesy of Lawrence Journal World, by Nick Krug Our Super Mario, best player ever. Isn’t he just cute as a button? And he’s from Alaska, to boot! [...]
A terrible sickness has descended upon my town, infecting its denizens with a disorder known as March Madness: Symptoms include severe liver damage, impaired brain functioning, enhanced vocalizations, display of destructive behavior, pyromania For those of you blissfully unaware of basketball and sports in general, Lawrence, my hometown, is currently consumed with the yearly drama [...]
