Uneasy Rhetoric

Driving* downtown Friday to see Transformers (badly written, 13-year-old fantasy…loads and loads of fun), we inadvertently picked up a hitchhiker. He first appeared on the windshield and made his way to the roof of the car, where he stayed for the three hours we were in the theater. He even came home with [...]

LJ Urban quotes a post from another blog about the benefits of line drying. In addition to being green, line drying will save you some green. If your dryer is in the house, it will also eliminate one source of heat. We’ve been doing something like line drying since about mid-May. [...]

‘Tis the season for Lynchburg lemonades. However, my wife has introduced me to Kahlúa and soda (as in soda water). Try it with coffee ice cubes. That’s some dangerous alcoholic beverage.

I completely missed this. Apparently, the Vatican has issued “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road,” which includes a Ten Commandments for Motorists. Among the commandments (which Blork lists on his blog): Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination, and an occasion of sin. Amen.
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Whenever someone brings up Sacramento Magazine, I cringe a little. I really believe the title should be in quotes because the magazine’s key demographic isn’t really Sacramento’s multicultural pizza, it’s the chewy, tasteless, white crust that surrounds the City. (This is a magazine whose readers once said, if I’m remembering correctly, that Taco Bell [...]