Category: life
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jurassic park pumpkin carving
Here’s a Jurassic Park pumpkin carving from the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze to give you some inspiration this Halloween.
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subway pumkin
Here is a subway pumpkin — as well as tons of pigeon pumpkins and one pizza rat pumpkin — or rather a series of subway pumpkins from the Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze to give you some ideas
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Happy Birthday Tara!
I don’t normally do stuff like this here, but since we don’t have social media and since Tara’s kind of laying low today (I gave her the day alone), I thought it might be nice for her to have a place to come back to that’s full of birthday wishes. Leave your Happy Birthdays below…
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I could do more of doing less.
What could you do more of? Haven’t ever tried the prompts such as today’s “what could you do more of,” but I think my answer comes from Heschel’s Sabbath, the songs I wrote for H.A.L.T.S. …and the spirit behind THE GREENWOOD POET (which just hit shelves). It’s not that I’m spreading myself too thin right…
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The Doors of the Sea reflection
If you have ever lost someone you dearly loved, suffered some terrible malady, found yourself plagued with a phobia or anxiety over the abyss of your fate, or survived a natural disaster — please read The Doors of the Sea by David Bentley Hart. For the sake of your own hope and joy, please read…
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How can I road trip like Steinbeck Travels with Charley?
You know how in my reviews of LJ’s novel and FC’s novel both, I talked about how I feel like I owe people all the time? How I feel horrible when I don’t read a friend’s book? That goes double for books I’m gifted. That — I am delighted to say — was not the case for…
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What are the best pranks you’ve heard of or experienced?
Have had a lot of folks since the publication of Bell Hammers reckon with the escalation of pranks in their own life — how a jest can turn into injustice. Sometimes it really is harmless fun, though. Either way: what are the best pranks you’ve heard of or experienced? Tell us in the comments: Photo by Kostiantyn Li on Unsplash
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Name Your Knot
I remember being at Camp Joy in Boy Scouts and going to knot-tying class that insisted you name your knot — was there with a dad named Jim — my buddy Andy’s dad. And we all sat around and tied our knots and Jim was working his way with a knot in the back of the…
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Urban Scavenging and Falling Fruit for Freegan Folk
Bit blurry, but these Juneberries hanging from a lone couple branches underneath sheet scaffolding in a construction project down the block illustrate the urban scavenging I’ve dipped my toe into. It started recently with mulberries we remembered in the Bay Ridge community botanical garden (a rather huge installation of neighbors that rivals many government-backed and…
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Protected: Pride and Prejudice book VS Pride and Prejudice life
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The End of the Salad Days
“Please go,” said the man in the tie, ushering us out through the automatic doors. Shuffling nearby were two checked out looking cops; the supermarket manager evidently feeling a possibility of violent protest from the old man and me. Without making a scene, we left and crossed the sprawling parking lot to the Volvo ‘88…
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Run to Hardware Store NYC
We wanted to show you guys what a run to the hardware store NYC is like. This is me and my father in law buying a few boards on a rainy day a week from Christmas.