It is astonishing sometimes, when you have a truly good idea, how quickly it will be adopted by the rest of the world. For example, you loyal readers of Ocelopotamus will surely remember my “tea-upon-ice” idea from last week. (Idea is too small a word, really. Discovery? Breakthrough? Epiphany?) And I’m sure you all have […]
Entries from August 15th, 2007
Tea-Upon-Ice Now Available in Restaurants
August 15th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Culture, Journal, Restaurants, Tea
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Rolling Stone: John Edwards is “the Real Liberal” in the Race
August 13th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Climate Change, Healthcare Crisis, Journalism, Labor, Media, Politics, The Economy, Stupid
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I Share This with the World
August 10th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Journal, Tea
I have, in the kitchen of my own home, concocted the most marvelous refreshment. Having made some hot tea by the normal infusion method, on a whim I poured the tea over some cubes of frozen water, thus lowering the temperature of the tea and transforming it from a steaming hot beverage into a refreshing […]
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Roundup: Ronald Reagan Memorial Bridge Edition
August 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Activism, Apple, Comics, Culture, Human Rights, Infrastructure, Journalism, LGBT, Lit, Macintosh, Media, Nature, News, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Roundup, Science, Tech, Torture
This is brilliant. Peter Smith at the Huffington Post has a proposal for renaming the new I-35W bridge in Minneapolis that will replace the one that collapsed: “For a while there, back when the Republicans held the White House and both houses of Congress, they were naming things after Ronald Reagan everywhere. Airports. Aircraft carriers. […]
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Boiling Some Cabbage with the Smothers Brothers
August 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Comedy, Culture, Music, TV, Video
Because I could use a little cheering up tonight … some classic Smothers Brothers. Remember, if you’re a folksinger, when someone says “take it” you are obligated to take it. And here’s an updated version of “Cabbage” from the 80s. Now with bonus naked bacon! Poor Tommy … all those years later and […]
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Bridge to the 21st Century
August 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Culture, Infrastructure, Media, News, Politics, Public Transportation, TV, Video
Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow say pretty much what I’ve been wanting to say about the Minneapolis bridge collapse story. I hate to say it, but I feel like we’ve just had a “welcome to the 21st century” kind of moment, and this isn’t going to be the last time this kind of preventable […]
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B-52’s Update: New Album, Cindy & Fred Interviews, and “Glove Slap,” Baby
August 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Culture, Music, New Wave, News, TV, Video
Yet another piece about the new B-52’s album, all recorded now with 12 shiny new songs, and just waiting for the right record deal to bring it to the public. The super-lucky-ducky writer of the piece got to sit around and listen to the new album with Cindy Wilson in her basement, and offers this […]
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The Money Power: Clinton, Edwards, and Obama at Yearly Kos
August 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Activism, Blogs, Chicago, Culture, Media, News, Politics, Video
From a story in the Washington Post on the Yearly Kos convention taking place in Chicago this weekend… I can’t believe Hillary actually said this out loud. Clinton came under attack for declining to join former senator John Edwards (N.C.), who is quite popular with bloggers, and Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in pledging not to […]
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A Message from Ian McKellen
August 1st, 2007 · 5 Comments · Activism, Culture, Film, Human Rights, LGBT, Media, News, Politics, Theater, Video
… to the people of Singapore.
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Yvonne Zipter: “A Canine Metaphysics”
August 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Books, Chicago, Culture, Lit, Nature, News, Pets, Poetry, Spirituality
As a sort of spiritual antidote to the horrible Michael Vicks dogfighting story, here’s a lovely poem by Chicago poet Yvonne Zipter (shared here with her permission). It’s from Yvonne’s most recent chapbook, Like Some Bookie God, which came out last year. A Canine Metaphysics In his meditative moments — nose to the air or […]
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