Nine days and counting, but to what? All that hoo-hah about the Mayan calendar running out of days on December 21, 2012 and now the same people who one year ago were telling us to put our heads between our legs and kiss our asses goodbye are inviting us to post-apocalypse parties. Something is going […]
Instead of “instagramming (our) breakfast and tweeting (our) First World problems,” former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson wants us to use our mad social media skills to pressure congress to lower the national debt. Simpson issues this curiously lighthearted call to arms during a YouTube video produced by The Can Kicks Back, then dances Gangnam Style with the organization’s […]
A Sunday Times article about dream homes – the wanting and the waiting for and the rare but happy acquisition of – reminded me that I was fortunate enough to live in my own dream home for a number of years. It was a 1936 granite bungalow in Columbia’s Shandon neighborhood. Hardwood floors, smooth plaster ceilings, glass doorknobs on […]
