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The Oklahoma City Museum of Art will present the Holiday Print Show for one month, Dec. 14 to Jan. 14. The exhibit will feature more than 100 prints by seven artists: Thomas Nast, Winslow Homer, Honoré Daumier, Claude Lorraine, Leonard Baskin, Josef Albers, and Robert Natkin.
We created the Dead Castro Dance page back in August, as our homage to the ailing Cuban dictator. We spared no expense (up to $9.95) to put up that page, which we still consider the finest and most appropriate tribute to the old tyrant.
Goodbye, Fidel. We wish we could say it was nice knowing you.
If you like the Peanuts comic strips, and you like Marvel Comics, wouldn’t it necessarily follow that you would be utterly enamored of these Peanuts-Marvel hybrid characters?
(Hat tip to Evariste.)
The Heart Attack Grill, in Tempe, Arizona, has been advised by the state attorney general that calling their waitresses “nurses” is a violation of Arizona Statute A.R.S. 32-1636. They can still wear the costumes, though.
I was just looking at the roster of 2006 Weblog Awards finalists, and was pleasantly surprised to see my own name among them! (Way, way down the list, in the “Best of the Top 5001 - 6750 Blogs” category.) I’ll try to put some pertinent content on my blog in the coming days, along with instructions on how to cast your vote for me. Meanwhile, I am very honored to be a finalist. Thanks, guys.
Just until Sean gets back to this one, I’m blogging over here.
Breaking hiatus to spread this link - please click through and read it, and watch the video. http://www.autismvox.com/3-hours-in-a-concrete-room/
Sean showed me a layout today for the new blog. Soon!
Tagged by Retired Waif. Apparently all I need is a little meme-generated guilt to start blogging again. No comments though. because I just. can’t. take. the. SPAM. 1. Let others know who tagged you. 2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves. 3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts. 4. Players [...]
I’m overwhelmed with spam comments. I won’t be posting for a while while Sean gets the blog reorganized. In the meantime, if you want to tell me something, anything really, email me - link at left. I’m going to be keeping a Flickr going for a bit, if you’d like to check in there from time [...]
A few months back, there was a stir in the news over a little girl named Ashley who is profoundly physically disabled by cerebral palsy. Her parents had her sterilized and her growth permanently attenuated through hormone treatment at age 6. Here’s wikipedia for background on the “Ashley Treatment,” as her parents call it. Now, here’s [...]
I’m still recovering from the knittting circle. Well, not really. (It was great btw!) For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a a slice of fried gold for ya. Enjoy.
Snopes.com has a compilation of New Year’s Day superstitions. Most of them seem to be based on the premise that whatever you do on New Year’s Day will sort of set the tone for the rest of the year. For instance, if you receive gifts on Jan. 1, you will have a prosperous year. If [...]
In these momentous days, with great forces struggling to dominate the world, and civilization itself hanging in the balance, I would once again like to quibble over a trivial linguistic error. My peeve today is with the common misuse of the word ‘demonstration.’ Indeed, as I shall demonstrate, this word is used wrongly far more [...]
The Iraqiya televsion network announced that Saddam Hussein was hanged today. (Well, tomorrow, technically, since it’s already Saturday over there.) The scrolling headline as they broadcast the news was: “Saddam’s execution marks the end of a dark period of Iraq’s history.” I sure hope that’s right. While I am glad he is dead, and I believe his [...]
Gerald Ford died yesterday at 93. R.I.P. Pajamas Media has a huge roundup of blog eulogies for the 38th President of the United States.
The Nativity of the Lord, woodcut by Albrecht Durer, part of the Life of the Virgin series.
I was shopping much of the day, and will be wrapping much of the night. And with Christmas a whole two days away! I should remember to start this early every year.
Special Needs Child Art of Chess Combination Art of Sacrifice in Chess Turning Advantage into Victory in Chess Storming the Barricades The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played
Time for an update on T.J.’s studies. We had some breaks for the Christmas holidays, and also took about two weeks off in early March due to the birth of T.J.’s newest cousin. Otther than that things have largely been uneventful. Mathematics: Deductive logic and lengthy forays into applied statistical analysis. English: Moving through American Literature sparked [...]
I was reading at Roundrock Journal and musing about meteor impacts, when I remembered a cool word: astrobleme - meaning star wound - and the official word for the crater left by a meteor impact.
Today was the Oklahoma Natural Parenting Homeschoolers park day. It was a little on the hot side but we had a great time. Pictures behind the cut! I love pictures of little kids walking. Sean and Gil Abby shows us her rainbows and hearts. Bede really likes trees, and this park has many. He was looking up at one, here. Faith [...]
On Friday, we took a field trip to the University of Oklahoma Medieval Fair, the annual event which for three days every year magically transforms Reaves Park in the college town of Norman, Oklahoma, into an authentic park with a Medieval Fair. Here are five-sevenths of our entourage, standing among the authentic Medieval straw bales. Abby [...]
Best Homeschooling has a great collection of essays on, you guessed it, homeschooling. I particularly enjoyed Just Do the Math, by David Albert, as it is a very good description of how I learned mathematics one summer. I went from barely managing basic computation to college algebra in about a month and a half of study [...]
Abaigeal can read too! She was sitting on the sofa the other day and I heard her talking to herself but since I was a room away, couldn’t quite make out the words. I walked in (she couldn’t see me at this point) and she was sitting there, happy as you please, reading a book [...]
