Long-Term Memory

World on fire

2008-07-02T14:13:09Z

Outside Auburn. We were going to stop for breakfast, but the smoky air destroyed our appetites. The news reports that the National Guard's been called out to help the exhausted fire crews.

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Vox Hunt: Oh Canada!

2008-07-01T23:22:30Z

In honor of Canada Day, show us your favorite Canadian. Shouldn't that be favourite Canadian?

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Bay Area Figurative

2008-06-29T22:50:44Z

I've been in the doldrums as far as painting goes. It's a familiar state of being to anybody who tries to paint and hold down a job at the same time. Anyway, to get myself back into the meridian I flipped through one of my favorite exhibit cata...

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Tonight's forecast: Dark

2008-06-24T00:25:46Z

I'm moved by how many Gen X tributes to George Carlin there have been today; it seems like so many of us experienced repeat listenings to his Seventies albums. It's strange that I even heard them at the time, given how square my parents were, but...

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Being 40 is the new punk rock

2008-06-18T16:09:46Z

There's a lot of birthday news to hear these days. Maybe it's just a banner year, with one of my husband's friends turning 40, and one of my friends having a baby in, like, the next couple hours or something. Me, I'm just 42 today, not a really ...

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The Cortisol Chronicles: Walk While Ye Have the Light

2008-06-01T03:45:37Z

I have a new job, my first in a while. I'm hesitant to say much about this-- to me-- novel situation, as if I'll jinx the whole setup, and wake up tomorrow with a dreadfully familiar sensation of nowhere to go. So, about the job-- eh. But lemme...

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Then what' s the national anthem?

2008-05-23T19:09:31Z

Up to now I thought I had a complete understanding of what's behind the buzzword "Web 2.0." I thought, and you probably did too, that it just meant puffy fonts on gradient backgrounds with rounded corners, and brand names apparently concocted in...

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Why: Sifter on bay leaf container

2008-05-23T01:38:24Z

Standardization yields dumb things sometimes, like the sifter thoughtlessly provided on this container of bay leaves. Each leaf is whole and too big to fit through the sifter.

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Mom 2.0

2008-05-17T18:55:05Z

This week my mom got back on the Web. She'd been there briefly a couple of years ago; now she intends to stay a little while longer. I phoned to check on things, and she remarked offhandedly that she and my sister were browsing YouTube. I sent h...

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Union Station!

2008-04-30T01:46:28Z

Why can't airports be as nice as the grand rail terminals still with us? I love entering the main hall here, with its Deco-era fittings restored and extant. It's hard to imagine, but San Francisco's shabby Trans Bay Terminal was once this appeali...

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