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They say, “You can find anything on the Internet”. And stories are told about people finding family, friends, jobs, all kinds of treasures there by using their searching skills, determination and luck.
Have you found something important to you on the Intranet? Are you still hunting, sure that you’ll find it eventually? How often do you look?
Has finding it changed your life?
When I was a kid (this was about 1961 or 1962), my dad bought a sample album of Science Songs. They were catchy little tunes each in a different folky or jazzy style. And we love them, we sang them all the time.
But, the album was lost during our move to Kansas and we never saw it again. The little kids in the family, never really heard (at least not to remember) the album, and I always felt bad about that. So, when I went to garage sales or junk stores, I’d always go through the albums hoping that I’d find the album.
Then comes the Internet, and supposedly you can find anything. Right? Well, with every new search engine, my test search would be “science songs”. I first tried this search in 1995. And I tried it a couple of times a year for years.
Then on Sunday, December 24, 2000, 12:06:10 AM (copied from the properties window of the file), I found them.
I was wrapping last minute Christmas presents and we had the TV turned to a holiday music station when they played a speciality children’s song. And it reminded me of my quest. So, I tried again: “Science Songs”.
And I saw this:
And my heart, really, almost stopped (it’s almost stopped just remembering). Because this HAS to be the set! And it was. This guy has converted all six albums to mp3 format (in 2 sizes 32kb & 160kb)!
It totally changed my Christmas plans. I downloaded them all. Burned them to CD. Made Labels and Jewelcase covers. Wrapped them in plastic wrap (pretend shrink wrap). Used the center lable hole to make a promotional sticker for the hit song on each CD. And gave a set to each person in my family.
I couldn’t have imagined a better Christmas treasure.
Would you like to hear one our favorites?
What Is An Insect: 32kbps / 160kbps
Yikes: Fixed link, 160 kbps
Smaller one soon.
I don’t know why I didn’t just do this in the first place:
Here is the link to Singing Science Records
It’s really worth a visit. Our other favorite is What is a Shooting Star.
Thanks for this link, katiebird! My kids will love them too — awesome!!
brinnainne, please tell me how they like them. I’d like to hear about it.
They Might Be Giants has some great stuff too, science songs and state songs.
I keep meaning to get one of their albums, thank you for reminding me!
I think an unintended benefit to this cafe is that I’ll be able to come back here & find these links later when I’m ready for some serious shopping!
brinnainne, if you’re really interested, email me and I’ll send you a set. It takes forever to download them, there are a couple of dozen!
Really, you don’t mind??
That would be great! Thanks! Off to email you!
Wonderful!
I recalled a children’s book about hyenas who were starving cause they kept telling jokes and laughing – their prey would escape. I couldn’t read the book out loud without laughing.
Found it. And acquired it. Just looking at the cover makes me smile.
Katiebird – I have a question for you. Is it possible still to comment on photos from last weekend in the PhotoFair Diary? I thought to take my time viewing each collection and then sending a comment to the photographer. Though I can view the photos, I don’t seem to be able to comment.
I really wanted to thank everyone for submitting their work and thank you especially for pulling this together! And to thank AndiF and Brotherfeldspar for doing all they did.
tampopo,
I know what you mean about smiling when you see the book. I found another Internet Treasure (I forgot until you reminded me), a book my mother read to the “little kids” called “Hurry-up Slowpoke”. It was just one of those books they used to sell by the checkout counter, nothing classic, but my mom really got into doing voices for the little mouse characters and the little kids really loved it.
I found a copy on eBay and bought it for Mom. And she has it sitting on a shelf. I’ve been there when 2 of the (formerly little) kids discovered the book. It was so great to hear them exclaim and pick it up!
Really, I love the Internet.
About the PhotoFair, I know that the time to Recommend expires, and I guess the comment feature does as well. This is a drawback to having a Fair in the Diary format. Because there is so much material, unless you made an incredible effort (and many many people here did just that), it could be several days before you can get to them all. And if you were an organizer of the fair, by the time you recover, it’s too late.
I guess we should be happy that we can keep the links safe for viewing. And we should probably use these months until the next one to think of ways to make it more flexible. I’ll add this concern to our list of things to think about.
Thank you very much (I love getting questions and suggestins about the Photo Fair).
tampopo,
I know what you mean about smiling when you see the book. I found another Internet Treasure (I forgot until you reminded me), a book my mother read to the “little kids” called “Hurry-up Slowpoke”. It was just one of those books they used to sell by the checkout counter, nothing classic, but my mom really got into doing voices for the little mouse characters and the little kids really loved it.
I found a copy on eBay and bought it for Mom. And she has it sitting on a shelf. I’ve been there when 2 of the (formerly little) kids discovered the book. It was so great to hear them exclaim and pick it up!
Really, I love the Internet.
About the PhotoFair, I know that the time to Recommend expires, and I guess the comment feature does as well. This is a drawback to having a Fair in the Diary format. Because there is so much material, unless you made an incredible effort (and many many people here did just that), it could be several days before you can get to them all. And if you were an organizer of the fair, by the time you recover, it’s too late.
I guess we should be happy that we can keep the links safe for viewing. And we should probably use these months until the next one to think of ways to make it more flexible. I’ll add this concern to our list of things to think about.
Thank you very much (I love getting questions and suggestins about the Photo Fair).
This book was one of my favorites when I was little… still makes me giggle to remember my mom and my brother reading it with me! LINK
CabinGirl,
Thanks for sending this link. We’ve got kids in the family the perfect age for this, and Christmas is coming soon!
In that case, can I recommend “The Araboolies on Liberty Street”? link
I know it’s an Amazon link, but you can probably click through to Powells and get it too.
From the School Library Journal:
on my diary and JimF’s. And I saw you read my reply.
Are you having some other problems with other diaries?
I wrote some comments on some of the following days. Then I noticed that the number of “comments” under the diary title “Photo Fair…,” which I have on my “Hotlist” didn’t change.
I didn’t know if my comments were going through to anyone. Sort of felt like I was talking to myself, but even worse, I’m not sure I was getting my thanks out to all the people who posted photos – they are amazing, delightful, stunning…and I have been enjoying them so much.
There are still many I haven’t gotten to yet. I was using them like treats, rewarding myself at the end of the day by going to the “gallery.” As katiebird noted, I can continue to do that, which I will.
Thanks AndiF for all your work on this.
were made in the individual photo fair diaries, then the count on the master diary wouldn’t change. So when you made the comment in my diary, the count showed up there but not in the master.
If people aren’t checking their individual diaries any more, then you may not get much response when you make comments. But I know I go back every few days to see if there any new comments and other folks may as well.
Either way, I’m glad you are enjoying the diaries. Tha’s what really counts.
Thanks AndiF for all your work on this.
You’re welcome but I have to tell that I got tremendous payback from the sheer pleasure of getting those wonderful photos wher people could enjoy them. I think I had the internet version of a runner’s high.
Perfect description of the weekend!
What’s the title of that book, please?
“Ha Ha Ha Hyenas” by Lou Myers; copyright 1971
Thank you.
“You can’t leave your wallet here–a thousand miles from the atmosphere!”
The one I’d really like to find is I recall a 2 record 78 set on Aladdin and His Magic Lamp. The songs were all sung to Scheherezade melodies. It would’ve come out in the early 50’s.
So far I’ve only come up with the more recent Disney stuff.
Gooserock, I missed your comment somehow!
I’m so sorry.
I love a quest, can I try looking for this once in a while?
I sent the link to my wife since she uses this kind of stuff in her college physics classes. She was delighted. Thanks. Haven’t had a recent Internet treasure find, but in the process of my mother getting divorced, our basement has been filling up with her stuff, and among it I find a cache of my beloved childhood records, including “Free to be You and Me” which was so cool to see again. I should go looking to see if anyone has digitized a less scratched up copy than mine.
Thank you for telling me this! I’d like to hear how her class likes them.
And how fun that you found that album. Have you checked ebay to see if anyone has a copy for sale?
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Kelly,
If your wife really want’s a set, email me.
Will do. I’ll let you know what’s up once she’s had a chance to listen to some of the mp3 links which will be some time next week when she’s at school with a fast link and a little free time. The latter is the killer. Thanks for the offer and again for the link. She’s always trying to find ways to connect her students to science at a visceral as well an intellectual level and music is great for that. I’ll make sure to let you know when she’s had a chance to give them a listen and what follows. Our life’s been crazy of late, so it might be a while, but I just wrote myself a note and emailed it to myself, so it’ll stay on my radar.
“little free time. The latter is the killer”
And that’s why I’d send them to you if she wants. It really takes forever to grab them all and burn them. But just burning them, isn’t so bad.
The tunes are catchy and fun. But the science on some of them is dated. I think. I wish I could remember each clearly enough to point out the specifics.
I’ll send you a response via email.
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Good Morning Katiebird!
A small glas of Pierre Frapin in a Paris Café in Le Quartier Latin, a pleasant and sunny afternoon in France!
First visit to Paris, fell in love …
ehh with the French people and the beautiful city filled with culture, shops, history and of course La Louvre with Venus de Milo and Michaelangelo.
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Good morning, Oui!
It’s so good to see you. I’d love to go to Europe sometime. I keep thinking next year. But, if tomorrow never comes, what does that say about next year. And my chances for going anywhere….
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A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries. It was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Intending to present Renaissance art as comprehensively as possible, the scope of the collection was later extended to show its Medieval roots as well as its evolution to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism. More recently the periods of Neoclassicism and Romanticism were also included.
… and of course Rembrandt Museum in Amsterdam.
Rembrandt van Rijn – Leiden
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Gone on your walk yet? I just came back from mine and I’m feeling nicely sweaty.
I think the photo fair pretty much sums up my favorite internet treasure: seeing and sharing views of our world.
The view my from porch.
No! I guess I should go now.
Thanks for reminding me.
Wow. We (at the BoomanTribune) did good, didn’t we? I think we invented something important.
I’m going to go for my walk later. I like my Saturday morning Cafe too much to leave. Is that so wrong?
When I was kid, I drove my mom nuts because not matter how late we left or how long the trip, I would never sleep in the car because I was afraid I’d miss something.
Anyway, you could always get one of these
and walk at night.
And, you were right, you know. I never used to sleep in the car either. We lived in California and my dad loved to take us on Sunday drives along the coast, I was sure that without my eagle-eye watching out — we’d go right off the edge.
This photo was taken about 10 miles from the house we lived in. It was my father’s favorite drive. You can see why I didn’t get much sleep.
Great photo — being in Kansas must be a bit of a geographic shock.
On mountain driving: on one our vacations driving through the mountains, my dad gave us a vote on every curve on whether he should make the turn or not. My memory of that vacation is distilled into a single one of my mom grabbing my dad’s arm and screaming “Morrie, Morrie!”
When I was a kid (my favorite phrase)….
Everyone I was related to lived in the same county. And we all spent lots of time together. I know for a fact that each of us cousins spent at least one weekend a month with our grandparents (usually paired with a cousin or two).
So we all knew our grandparents very well. Of all those weekends, all that visiting, the one memory each of us cousins have of our grandmother is (exactly as you said) distilled into a single one of Ava screaming “Samuel, Samuel (pronounced Sumwell) — and then going off in Portuguese. It didn’t take a cliff to bring this out. Just coming up to a stop light was enough!
My grandfather lived with us (or maybe we lived with him, I’ve never been sure) until his death when I was eight. He was wonderful. I loved to climb up in his lap and be read to even though I really just listened to the sound of his voice — he had a really unusual accent accumulated through his life story of going from Russia to a cockney neighborhood in England to lower eastside in New York City to Indianapolis.
Anyway, it wasn’t until I was older that I realized what he was “reading to me” was the siddur (in Hebrew), which is the Jewish prayer brook.
Thanks for jogging my memory book.
The worst of moving to Kansas wasn’t the loss of mountains & oceans.
It was being cut off from that close-knit family. My childhood was wonderful because of it.
(and thank you — now I’m thinking about sitting on my grandfather’s lap and him “pulling off my nose” or him carrying us around like a “sack-a-potatoes”)
My first memory of my maternal grandmother (Mema) was of her preparing to tell me a story. She would always start out by saying “Once upon a time, when I was a little boy….” Whereupon I would squeal and say, “You were never a little boy, you were a little girl!!” And we’d both laugh uproariously. She would also let me pop out her lower false teeth. If I pressed just right on her chin, the lower teeth would pop out. I was sure I was the one causing this hilarious event. Now I know she really was doing it for me…or was she????
Wow! That’s the coolest story! I can see it.
There was a sweatshirt I saw that I think provides the answer. It said “If I had known how much fun grandkids were, I would’ve had them first.”
I love this story.
I’m beginning to think we need a special grandparent stories cafe.
Not tonight, tonight, it’s KEGGER!
Can you come and visit at the New Cafe?
I was just kidding about the no Grandparent stories. I’ve got a bunch to share also….
geographic shock.
Yes, for a girl who expects to live around both mountains and oceans, Kansas is a strange place to spend 38 years.
It’s funny how time flies.
OOOO, We’ve got those. But, their mostly used when my (nutty) son works on his car at night.
One of our fellow BTers has suffered a death in the family. I will respect the person’s privacy by not mentioning their name. Just wanted to let you know so you can take a moment of silence to pray or meditate or to send your vibes through the airwaves. Thank you.
Oh. catnip, if you’re in touch with them, please send them my love.
Thanks for letting us know, Catnip. OUr thoughts go out to their entire family.
That’s rough and my wishes go with whoever it was. I lost a much loved aunt-in-law yesterday, so I can very much sympathize.
I’m not one but this site of knitted sculptures just amazed me. There are some treasures to be seen there. Here’s one example:
You should submit that one to You Knit What??.
Jeeezus! Boy, did that “thing” ever give me a fright as I scrolled down.
Some of us are a little hung over.
Gawd! What a repulsive piece — who would want to see that in their house? Shudder!
Redemptive question: Is it Halloween art?
Andi, honey?
I’ve given you a four, would you forgive me if I ask you what it means?
And the language?
It’s french and means “to each his own taste.” Or in modern phraseology “whatever”.
Just out of curiosity I translated it over at babelfish and it came out “each one with its taste” which isn’t too far off.
Cool! I’m going to share this with mr. katiebird. He’s been testing bablefish with something everyday this week.
The very first thing that I used the internet to find and purchase, that I had searched for everywhere – was this CD.
Wood, Fire, and Gold, by Kim Robertson, harpist extraordinaire. (Sorry about the Amazon link, but they provide snippets of the music.) Dance of the Lambs is so beautiful. It fills me with joy to listen to it.
I bought it from a small music retailer in the US. They sent the CD first, and then I mailed a cheque. No online purchasing at that point! I was esctactic.
Agree with Andi ’bout finding the treasures here on the FB Photo fair. I love viewing people’s photos and what they choose to capture.
Anyways… It’s going to be another busy day here. We’re having Round 2 of Thanksgiving dinner. My family are visiting, and I’m hosting and I have an applie pie to bake shortly and a turkey to get in the oven. They’re coming from the Centre of the Universe* so it’ll take a few hours.
A few more flower photos.
Mallow, taken October 2nd.
Rosebud, taken August 13th.
*Toronto :o)
Hi Olivia, Thanks for sending the link — I’m going to trouble shoot what’s wrong with my speakers so I can listen…..
2 weekends of family dinners! That sounds kind of fun.
I think I’m going to start a new game.
Guess where katiebird’s formats were SUPPOSED to go.
Sorry everyone.
One of the advantages of living where I do is that I am very close to a university (Indiana University) with one of the best music schools in the country. Every three years, the International Harp Competition (founded by IU harpist Susan McDonald) is held there. It’s wonderful. Just in case you want to do some planning, the next one is will be held in Bloomington, Indiana, in July 2007.
This tune, which feels to me like a Kerry polka, is played in the John Wayne movie The Quiet Man. I’m thinking it may have been during the fight scene.
Thanks Olivia–now I know what a “mallow” is. Rakes are fields but I think it can also refer to randy young men as in “Rakish Paddy.” That’s one of the tunes played in Titanic when Leonardo was down below playfully chasing his girlfriend.
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T:Rakes of Mallow
C:Trad
M:2/4
E:15
L:1/16
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Gooserock, How did I miss your visit? This is the second comment of yours that I’m reading for the first time!
And if I saw it, I could have hummed it while I walked, dang it!
Internet treasures — well, thanks to the Powell’s link, I was able to find out a book I’d been wanting for years was finally coming out in paperback; got it a little over a week ago, and it was worth the wait! 🙂
I just bought the complete set of Bruckner’s Symphonies through iTunes; it was featured on this week’s “New Releases”. I was only familiar with #’s 4 and 7 previously (especially 7; in college I dated a French horn player who was a major Bruckner fan, and 7 was his favorite because it’s got a lot of horn), but now I can familiarize myself with all of them!
I have a cassette (remember those?) sitting in my boombox called “Christmas All Seasons”. It’s one of those New Age-y type things, nothing really to do with Christmas but the descriptions on the case (IIRC — it was lost years ago) had a lot to do with incarnation, birth and all that. The music is actually quite beautiful. I picked it up at some street fair. I should do a search and see if I can find it on CD so I can put it on the computer…
But the best treasure the Internet has provided is this community… 🙂
Time to get the spouse moving…have a great day! 🙂
Cali, I know you’re probably off doing stuff, but I just wanted to thank you for your Internet Treasures comment.
I wish I knew more about music.
Last July, I had enough. The side effects of my incredible obesity, were more than I could tolerate. It seems it didn’t bother me that much to look horrible in the mirror, or be forced to wear ugly clothes, but the physical/medical side effects finally broke me.
I had to do something about it. For a while, I was pretty discouraged, because I’ve lost weight before and it’s just found it’s way back. I was thinking that obesity was my fate.
And, since I have diabetes, that isn’t good.
Anyway, on July 26, I decided to start an experiment:
Well, my life has changed completely since I started this. Because it turns out:
–> I can control myself for a day.
–> I can promise myself all the treats in the world “tomorrow”, but tomorrow never comes.
I’ve been documenting the process and my progress like crazy. I log everything I eat and every mile I walk. I test my blood sugar constantly (almost). And weight myself every day.
But the biggest change is my confidence. Where before even my most successful attempts at a “diet” stunk of doom — because I knew I’d lose the momentum. This one feels right.
I’m not depending on momentum, I can’t jinx it. All I have to do is get through today. One day at a time.
That is really wonderful and I’ll bet a lot of people can take inspiration from it.
I’m off to run some errands — make sure I don’t miss anything, please!
Oh, I hope they do.
I think we can do anything Today if we want.
I’ve even done the dishes & a load of laundry today!
What a great take-charge inspirational story your life is. Wishing you continued success and many milestones of shedded pounds and better health.
Cafe! Charge your glasses and be upstanding. “To katiebird. Hip-hip hoorah! Hip-hip hoorah! Hip-hip hoorah!”
Thank you,
From my shyness, I almost didn’t reply to this, but thank you.
Thanks, you inspired me to tear myself away from the cafe and go do my 3.5 mile run/walk loop; I’m up to running 2 miles of it, and running a little further everytime I do it.
I remember reading about your latest bloodwork results a couple of weeks ago, and I just wnated to say again what an incredble accomplishment that is! 🙂
Thanks, CabinGirl —
I’ll probably elaborate on the story on Saturdays now and then. But the truth is, I’m not a very strong minded person.
It took me 25 years to get my college degree, largely because although I read at least a book a week (and often many more than that), I’ve never been very good at reading what I don’t want to read. So I dropped almost as many classes as I finished.
For that matter, I’m not very good at doing anything I don’t want to do.
The repercussions of this “just today” thing are that I do all kinds of things (including Froggy Bottom Photography Fairs, my lazy nature nearly put a halt to that!), “just today”.
So it will be interesting to see what else gets done this year.
PS — That’s great that you did that.
And you’ve inspired me (I forgot that I haven’t done my walk today!). I’m off for my walk.
Thanks!
Wow, KatieB, that is wonderful! What a great accomplishment! I stand in awe.
(smiling)
A quiet morning for me with a few chores. Laundry and kitty litter, and vacuuming, though the last is hardly a chore. Just put down Roomba the robovac and get out of the way. Cold pizza and hot bacon for breakfast. Yes, the health implications are awful, but it was yummy and not something I’m likely to do very often. A gentle tea morning, just plain old Earl Gray.
As I told my boys Wednesday morning: Cold pizza for breakfast is considered a delicacy in some cultures!
Are Roombas as loud as vacuum cleaners. For some reason the older I get the more I hate the sound of a vacuum cleaner.
They’re maybe half as loud, and more than that, I can just set it loose and go off and do something in some other part of the house, so I don’t have to be anywhere near the actual process. It doesn’t even really scare the cats.
We love ours and we’ve had one for about two years. They aren’t the most reliable devices in the world, but we’ve had great customer support on ours. It works great on the cat fur problem, which is important since my wife is mildly allergic to our five shedding beauties.
The biggest pluses have been that with the ease of use we vacuum about five times as often as we used to, and that also helps us keep the place tidy in general since we have to police the floor for the sorts of things that a human would know not to try and vacuum.
The biggest minuses are imperfect reliability (mitigated by great support) and less vacuuming power than an upright (mitigated by increased frequency of use).
Big caveat — we’ve got hardwood floors which means longer battery life and less effort in sucking up fur.
hmmmm.
My mother-in-law has 5 cats. All indoor cats.
hm. (thinking)
Another beautiful fall day in the foothills
Off to the Farmer’s Mrkt. and errands, then a long walk with the Bu-girl. Best time of year to be living in the foothills!
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lovely, beautiful. Thank you.
Love this place and what a great topic to attract posts — you got mine. Haven’t read others yet (but intend to) as you jogged my memory to this small tale of deeply satisfactory “Internet treasure hunting.”
Years ago I stumbled upon William H. Calvin’s
The River that Flows Uphill: A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain
I owned the trade paperback, lauded it abroad, and that resulted in a clamoring chorus of, “I’d like to read that. Can you loan it to me?” You can guess what happened.
Some years passed and I continued to feel bereft as when a dear friend moves across the continent and you can no longer enjoy the spontaneous immediacy that once you cherished.
Then it came to me that I might be able to replace my book, which I knew to be out of print, by undertaking an Internet treasure hunt.
Delight! I got a first edition, hard cover replacement with illustrated paper cover, and in excellent condition for less than I paid for the original. Now it is safely on my bookshelf where it seems to give off a warm golden glow, inviting me to open its covers and float once again down the Colorado River between the walls of the Grand Canyon on a two-week journey into the consciousness and how we think.
Now that’s my definition of “treasure”!
Yes! That’s exactly what I mean. We are so lucky to live in this age. And to be in a place where we can take advantage of everything it has to offer.
We can find our lost treasures, as you did.
And treasures we didn’t even expect as we all did when we found this place.
I really think the Internet (and the WWW in particular) is one of the best inventions ever.
And, Boo-Tribbers, I got it from Powell’s City of Books, a sponsor of this joint we call cafe away from home.
Are you still hunting for something?
I found a great pair of slacks at Marshall’s last year, but it’s a discontinued style and I can’t find more of it anywhere.
I keep hunting, but’s it’s probably lost to me forever.
And really, if I could find black, baggy, tencel, elastic band pants. I’d by 6 pairs! They don’t HAVE to be Liz Claiborne petite!
and it looks like I didn’t miss a whole lot. What a relief.
Except — everybody seems to have disappeared. Did I miss announcement of free beer?
Things quieted down after noon or so. I took off for my walk & just got back.
We might be at that point where people hold off in case a new cafe opens.
How about this: Evening hours start at 6pm. This place will be open for another 2 1/2 hours!
Sometime back at the beginning of the week wanted us to have a Kegger & I promised that we’d have one tonight.
I haven’t been to a kegger in years. Do we need anything besides a keg?
And do we want Karaoke or Open Mike?
you need a tap for the keg.
When I was in school, lo these many years ago, we always had our keggers at abandoned coal quarries. Wonderful times. I have fond memories of many hours of playing the chugging game ratshit.
Dear Cafe Chronics,
This is an open letter recommending an outstanding diary to be found at DailyKos by mem from somerville titled “Autonomous Women.”
It is an analysis of American attitudes toward women who choose the single life, and its direct implication in some of the hateful diaries regarding Harriet Miers.
Yes, few if any of us in this community can support her nomination. But all of us do so, I’m certain, for reasons, not for her whatever-it-may-be sexual orientation.
I think you’ll enjoy both the diary and quite a few of the thoughtful comments.
Sincerely,
I did indeed read that diary. I thought it was great, and it would have been good even if it it hadn’t been posted in repsonse to all the conjecture about Harriet. I especially loved the letters from the 1800s.
Thanks for sending me there. I don’t go to dKos anymore without a link — I just don’t think about it.