Joy
Jake, playing in a jungle gym tunnel at the park. Innocence, trust, discovery, making a big plastic tube a secret adventure…that’s kind of what it’s about, no? I know it’s Monday, but try to rejoice in it anyway.
Schmenglish IX
Yesterday I snickered at a list of five “atrocious science clichés to throw down a black hole.” After additional snickering at the comments which followed the article, I got to thinking about overused phrases that bug me. Many of them have to do with redundancy. For instance: Almost identical Past history Quite/very/really unique An added [...]
RNF XXIII
Random Neuron Firings 1. Fantastic pictures from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland came out three weeks ago (I must have missed it; just saw them for the first time at the Grand Theater in Lincoln on Monday). JD looks appropriately and delightfully creepy as the Mad Hatter (photo is clicky). But does anyone see a [...]
Home stretch & ode to MJ
No, not that MJ. The other one. The one who lives at my house. The one who lives. Lincoln, Omaha, Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Iowa City, Davenport…then the long, long trek of nothin before getting to Joliet and putting my feet up. Or maybe not “nothin” after all… So I stopped at two cool places [...]
Vamos
And away I go, leaving the prairie. Much of what I drive this morning will look like this (taken on the way to Lincoln on Monday): And that was just minutes outside of Crete, where Doane College is located. Beautiful country out here for sure. I’m bugged because I only got about 4 hours of [...]