All in step now --

... I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd

... I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd

... I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd

The March of I'ds.

 

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This entry began as a comment to Saturn Smith's excellent post arguing for Eric Holder to open investigations into the Bush Adminstration's (alleged) crimes.  The comment got out of hand. 

In addition to the service of justice, prosecution of Bush & Co. is symbolically importa…

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"Exit Music (For a Film)" by Radiohead.

I don't want to speculate on why the lyric "We hope that you choke" is especially repeating in my head.  "Because it's the emotional climax of the song"  -- yeah, I'll leave it at that. Read full post »

Every year the Baseball Writers' Association of America ("BWAA") votes to elect inductees to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.  To qualify for election, a player must be retired for at least 5 years.  To be elected a player must be on 75% of the ballots cast by the BWAA.  As lon… Read full post »

I bought a copy of "Shadow Country" by Peter Matthiessen this afternoon.  I don't know where to put it.  It's not like I purposely went out thinking, "You know what would really make this a great day?  A copy of Shadow Country."  Or any other book.  I wasn't even at a… Read full post »

Photos taken at the Samburu National Reserve and the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.  Although the final photo doesn't feature a calf, it does show the proximity of land rover to elephant when we were with a herd.  You can get close, but not nearly so close to a yo… Read full post »

A non-poem in non-verse from a non-poet.  By Stim.  Thank you.

Today I Got Older

 

Today I got older.

How many is this?  Cliches started coming:

Old man, so many candles, that much closer to death.

And those were from friends.

The balloons, they were nice.

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I stand slack-jawed. 

 

“What do you mean …?  How can you be 23, living in this country, and not have seen The Wizard of Oz?” Or, responding to a shrug of the shoulders: “Rick?  Ilsa?  Casablanca?”

 

Another shrug of the shoulders and a shak… Read full post »

Do you remember your 8th grade summer reading list?  I don't.  I have a hard time remembering 2007.

So, last year I kept a list of the books I read.  This decision came from a need to answer two perennial questions:  "I know I read that, but when?" and "What was it about… Read full post »

Please stop sending little Christmas cookies to the office.  Please.  You know they're sitting right there in the break room next to my office.  I can't help but pass them everytime I need to get coffee or water or use the restroom on the other side of the break room.  Please… Read full post »

 

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The "Nearly" in the title is of utmost personal importance.  The thought of having spent a full 10 years as a pastry chef at this certain Chicago Continental-style (actually German) bakery ... psychologically, double digits would've driven me mad.  I escaped 3 months short of the dreaded de… Read full post »

The things that cross my screen ....

Speechless, jaw bouncing off the floor, "indescribable" as my friend, KC, wrote.  Also destoying the myth that all Swedes are other-worldly good looking.

Kudos to whomever put together this collection of 1970s Swedish dance bands' promo shots.

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I took the above photo in early October while on safari in Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve.

I'm not even a quasi-knowledgable amateur on cheetahs.  My guess is that the cubs were 4 months old or less.  I'm basing the guess on that they were mostly spott… Read full post »

I’ve heard variations of this statement one too many times since Obama’s election:  “This was a generation-changing election.”

 

Not really.

 

Bill Clinton was born in 1946, as was George W. Bush.  Barack Obama was born in 1961.  The “Baby Boom Gen/… Read full post »

I’m sitting on page 102 of the Vintage paperback edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral by Philip Roth.  So far, the book smells of Literature.  Not a story, not an exploration, not an adventure, not a yarn, not even an introspective reflection of an era, which i/… Read full post »

Hi and welcome to Stuff That Interests Me.  As self-indulgent as the name would suggest, my hope is that this blog will be an exchange of thoughts, ideas, experiences and, yes, interests.  Beyond that I suspect Stuff That Interests Me will wander freely.

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