Month: September 2014
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Stripper School: Harder Than You Think
As trade schools go, Stripper School is a lot more difficult than many trade schools. And for the record, they like to be called “exotic dancers.” It’s classier.
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The Shortest Best Story Ever
This post originally appeared in Old Road Apples’ very first week of existence. No one noticed it. No one even read it. So, I’m giving it a chance at new life, as I will be doing with other, carefully selected posts in the coming weeks. Among the students voted “best…” and “most likely to…” for…
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War Is Cruelty, And You Cannot Refine It
Excuse me a moment while I alienate all the southerners reading this blog…. This is General William Tecumseh Sherman on scenic horse ride through Georgia–I got in a bit of a kerfluffle with a southern stranger on Pinterest last year after I pinned the image to the right on the photo saving site, along with…
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What’s The Ettiquette on Re-Using Old Posts?
I started this blog at a snail’s pace–a lot of the initial posts had 2 or 3 or maybe 5 views on a very good day and some were completely ignored. It took me a while to figure out the give and take of community building, and now that I have a nice network of…
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Autumn Photo: Hemingway’s Bloody Mary
Ernest Hemingway didn’t invent Autumn’s most iconic cocktail–that distinction is rumored to belong to Ferdinand “Pete” Petiot, a Parisian bartender looking for ways to dress up vodka for Russian immigrants and American expatriots on the lam from Prohibtion–but the iconic American author, and legendary drinker, has been inextricably tied to the Bloody Mary thanks to…
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People Crackers?
My friend Miriam gave me a box of these for Christmas a few years ago. I remember my grandmother giving me these to feed to her dog when I was little. I guess they’re sort of the same deal?
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Autumn Photo: Yellowstone 1990
Wandering around Yellowstone with some friends way back in 1990, mid-afternoon on the road between Mammoth and Tower, we spotted a colorful grove of aspen trees. We waded out into the dry autumn grass, plopped down, and stared up and through the golden leaves at the perfect blue sky above. We dozed off and had…
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Football Thoughts 9/22
I had written a couple of football-themed posts last week, but faced with finishing them up and posting them here, I just wasn’t feeling it. Perhaps it was because my beloved Steelers looked terrible over the first two weeks of the season, especially getting hammered by the hated Ravens in week 2–but I don’t so.…
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Autumn Found Photos: This Is Going to Be Difficult
An initial foray into the world of autumn posts revealed a whole lot of gifs, clip art, graphics, cute photos of other people’s children raking leaves or going on hay rides, and creepy-ish images that remind me of stuff cut-and-pasted from an LL Bean catalog. Or Sears Roebuck, even. There’s also a lot of clearly…
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Autumn Photo: Step Into Fall
We’ll see if we can keep this seasonal-themed photo thing going. This one isn’t the most vibrant, but it has a sort of subtle genius to it, don’t you think? I’m not just saying that because I took it. It’s just…obvious.
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