Happy New Years. This is list day. Everywhere there will be lists. Best of. Worst of. Who died. Blah blah blah. Consider 27th Street to be your list-free zone. Isn’t it good to know you have a place to go to get away from it… Read More
How long do I have to hold out to be the last known human to not have a Facebook account?
I was just about out of gas in the Anchovy-mobile so I pulled into the nearest gas station, which happened to be a Husky station. I’d never fueled up at a Husky station before, at least not in the city. The pumps have green trim,… Read More
Here’s an odd story out of Montreal that caught my eye. Results from a McGill University study, released yesterday, suggest that people -men, anyways -become less aggressive at the sight of meat. The research was conducted with 82 male subjects who were asked to inflict… Read More
The Presurfer has an interesting post up about the most dangerous jobs in America. I never would have guessed that fishing was number one on that list. I might have said forestry or construction or mining. I suppose being out on the ocean, exposed to… Read More
For those down in America thinking wtf is he going on about, Canadian Thanksgiving happens in October. It’s kind of like American Thanksgiving, but hold the Pilgims, hold the college football.
What a cold and damp day around here, cold and damp enough that tonight we fired up the woodstove for the first time this season. That’s better. Much better.
I thought mushroom hunting was a gentle activity. Avoid eating the nasty ones and and it’s all about wandering about in the woods (preferably with the dogs), picking mushrooms, and later cooking up wild mushroom dinners at home. Well, Salvelinas sent in a link to… Read More
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