Gallimaufry
Michael Hartford
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Birthday
- July 22
- Bio
- Author of "Dad's Eye View: 52 Family Adventures in the Twin Cities," available May 15 from Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Writer, photographer, programmer, dad.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Gleanings: February 11, 2012
February 11, 2012 07:40AM - Gleanings: February 9, 2012
February 09, 2012 07:12AM - Gleanings: February 8, 2012
February 08, 2012 02:12PM - Gleanings: February 7, 2012
February 07, 2012 08:06AM - Gleanings: February 6, 2012
February 06, 2012 07:43AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “This was shot with a
Holga--cheap Chinese 120
camera with a
plastic lens.
The gla…”
October 20, 2011 01:02PM - “Actually, it's a fabric
cake decorating a kitchen
display at
a tile store. It
loo…”
July 02, 2011 07:01AM - “Thanks very much! Of
course, now the hard work
really
begins--authors are
part of…”
May 26, 2011 05:04PM - “It's not obvious? ;)
This is a float for the annual
Heart of
the Beast Theater
Ma…”
April 06, 2011 12:39PM - “Winter has been long
here in Minnesota. I actually
took this
in a light
industria…”
March 30, 2011 06:19AM
Michael Hartford's Links
Gleanings: February 11, 2012
The Shirley Temple – Graham Greene Connection
How a review that pointed out the creepiness of Shirley Temple movies led to “The Power and the Glory”
Cindy Sherman talks to Simon Schama
Sherman is often mistakenly thought of as a one-note impresario of
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Gleanings: February 9, 2012
RIP John Christopher (Samuel Youd), author of the Tripod books
Shadow and Smoke by Charles Wright
Live your life as though you were already dead
American writers alive today are expected to work as if Gertrude Stein… Read full post »
Gleanings: February 8, 2012
Florence Green, Last World War I Veteran, Dies at 110
“It seems,†she remarked to The Independent last year, on the occasion of her 110th birthday, “like such a long time ago now.â€
Gleanings: February 7, 2012
Rabbis oppose Minnesota marriage amendment
“Throughout history the Jewish community has faced discrimination, and therefore we will not stand by while others are targeted.”
The Downward Mobility of the American Middle Class
But Romney and other Republicans h
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Gleanings: February 6, 2012
Two Deaths: A Poet And A Beetle : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR
She’d wake up like we do, look out the window just like us, rummage through her days, but somehow what caught her attention — a grasshopper’s hop, an infant’s fingernails, plankton, a snowflake — when Wislawa Szymb
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Evening Harvest: February 4, 2012
The Millions : I Greet You in the Middle of a Great Career: A Brief History of Blurbs
It’s tempting to look back no further than the origins of the word “blurb,†coined in 1906 by children’s book author and civil disobedient Gelett Burgess. But blurbs, like bullshit, existed long
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Evening Harvest: January 31, 2012
Have Your Cake And Eat Its Package
Maybe in the future you’ll be able to sip some juice, and eat the package.
Major undertakings.
No More E-Books Vs. Print Books Arguments, OK?
We should worry less
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Evening Harvest: January 30, 2012
The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg – NYTimes.com
This is the dilemma of being a cyborg: It’s not just that everything we once committed to memory we now store externally on devices that crash or become obsolete or are rendered temporarily inaccessible due to lack of coverage. And it’s n
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Gleanings: January 29, 2012
‘The Snowy Day’: Breaking Color Barriers, Quietly : NPR
“It was no longer necessary that the book say, ‘I am an African-American child going out into the snow today,’ ” Pope says. “They realized that you don’t put a color on a child’s experience
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light from about
Screw Auger Falls, Grafton Notch, ME
Evening Harvest: January 27, 2012
Chicago’s Hull House, founded by Jane Addams, closes doors after more than 120 years
“I wish we would have known. Why weren’t they screaming this from the rooftops?” said [Victoria] Brown[, author of "The Education of Jane Addams"]. Addams “was known as gentle, not conf
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Gleanings: January 27, 2012
RIP Dick Tufeld, voice of “Robby the Robot”
Dick Tufeld, a longtime radio and TV announcer who intoned “Danger, Will Robinson!” as the voice of the robot in the 1960s science-fiction TV series “Lost in Space,” has died. He was 85.
Hap… Read full post »
Gleanings: January 25, 2012
The Hazda
I’d brought along a photo album, and passing it around helped mitigate the awkwardness. Onwas was interested in a picture of my cat. “How does it taste?” he asked.
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