Aubernica

This is a new version of Picasso's 'Guernica" - to portray the Pacers/Pistons brawl. Art imitating life???

Turkeys Strike Back!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! And to honor this fine tradition, we bring you a story of turkeys gone wild....

They're in Melrose...
"Now we've got two more sets of them in town. They've been well-behaved, but they can also be dangerous. They're not at all afraid of people. You beep your horn at them, and they stand there like, 'What are you going to do now?' "

And Boston...

The turkeys' distinctive red forms have recently been spotted strolling through the tony Boston neighborhood of Back Bay and strutting in the vicinity of Fenway Park. Two summers ago, an academically inclined turkey took up residence in Cambridge's Kendall Square, home to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

And even Westwood!

In Westwood, southwest of Boston, town officials considered passing a bylaw banning residents from feeding turkeys after reports that one neighborhood, where someone left food for the birds, had been overrun by 50 or more.
"In the end, we just went to the person and said they had to stop feeding them or else they would never go away," said Nancy Hyde, a town official. "So far, it seems to have worked. Maybe they won't come back."

Nancy Hyde is the town selectman(woman?) and I teach two of her great kids. You go Nancy!

You go Turkeys!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Got Speech?

Okay, this might possibly be my solution for getting through the next four years. All his speeches sound the same anyways, so why not condense them all and just hit play now and then?

Remember - speech writing is "hard work"!

Sherpa? No - Sherbert!

Words That Could Conceivably Be Used to Describe Both Sherpas and Sherbet.
BY MICHAEL WARD

Cold Sweet Small Mellow Smooth Bold Acerbic Expensive Outstanding


Amusing. I love McSweeney's. My kind of humor.

Books!

I love books. And of late, I have been making the time to read more. Just finished Middlesex, for example. Outstanding!

I have now found what heaven must be like, right here on this earth. The New England Mobile Book Exchange is bursting with books, at various discounts, arranged primarily by publisher, of all things! I had never looked at books this way, or given much thought to how books I love are often written by different people, but published by the same presses.

When I moved back to Massachusetts, I resolved to continue to explore, to seek out new experiences, to enjoy New England. Today was just one more stop on the pathway. Nice to find so many books awaiting me there.

Mittens

Where have I been for the past few weeks? Perhaps reading aboyut wonderfully creative projects, like this. I can only imagine where all those mittens came from. I bet a few are mine.

I have been knitting as of late. Not mittens, a scarf for now. It is about half done, nice and warm and fluffy. Mittens might be a little risky, but I'd love to try a sock!

Books By Color

AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS COBBON GLUE-STICK STATUARY, SPEAKING TO MASHED POTATOES, AND REARRANGING 20,000 BOOKS BY COLOR.

Adobe Bookshop in San Francisco's Mission District, and all of its contents, will be transformed. It will take a crew of 20 people pulling an all-nighter fueled by caffeine and pizza and following a master organizational plan—but come Saturday morning it will be like a place that would only exist in a dream.

This is ultra-cool. I often try to browse in new sections of bookstores. I tend to always find myself in the Biography section, or Education, etc - until somthing catches my eye, and I'm in "new age" or "cooking"... I wonder if I would find a need to buy a book that was "pink" or "persimmon"?

Oh Boy.

Never put yourself in a position where your party wins only if your country fails. Tom Friedman, good point.

There are many people in this country who believe that Bush has a right to be President, and that he will do a good job. They have spoken. I was at first dismayed that Republicans now control so much (not just the presidential seat) but it has been pointed out that now Bush's policies will be even easier to put into place without opposition. Now we will see how his policies will help our country. How we will be viewed by the world. How our environment will support and protect us. How our growing energy crisis "should" be solved... Mr. Bush, the "hard work" has not even begun!

VOTE!

'nuf said. I am headed to the polls... more later.