September 2008
20 posts
A very good interview of Junot Díaz by Edwidge... →
Lydia Mendoza's Chiles Rellenos & Mexican Fideo →
Man decorates basement with $10 worth of Sharpie →
The 360 degree view accompanying the story is really something.
Book of Short Stories By Fifth Grade Pupils in... →
Louisville Barroom Culture →
Oral History Project via Southern Foodways Alliance
Kentucky Bacon Oral History Project →
Dude at the bar last night: I like your shirt. Is that a painting company, construction, what?
Me: Faulker? Nooo. Great American novelist, wrote something you probably read in high school, “As I Lay Dying.”
Dude: Oh yeah, I read that. I did some construction with Faulkner, too.
Wunderkammern Tour Guide (U.S) →
City of Memory →
Austin Free Museum Day →
Go!
“PLAYBOY: Mistake or not, what made you decide to go the rock-‘n’-roll route?
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“The days when the dandelion could be called the pissabed, a heron could be...”
– Seed: Steven Pinker on Swearing and Violence
“What is skiing? It is stupidity embodied. You climb up the mountain to come...”
– Slavoj Zizek
Fresno Burglar victims wake to spice rub, sausage... →
…The victims, both farmworkers, told deputies they were awakened by a stranger applying “Pappy’s Seasoning” to one of them and striking the other with a sausage.
Both the spices and the sausage, Burrimond said, reportedly were obtained from the victims’ kitchen.
After the man fled, the victims discovered the home had been ransacked and that some money was taken,...
“I want to be in Kentucky when the end of the world comes, because it’s...”
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