My spiral-cut jack o’lantern. I think it invites the viewer to really examine their cultural beliefs about pumpkins.
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GTD: It’s all work
I still write every so often for GTDTimes, the official Getting Things Done blog. One of my last posts got quoted in Britain's "Globe and Mail" newspaper! I have a more philosophical post up this time, as opposed to a practical guide, if you will. But it still turned out pretty well and got good buzz and comments on Twitter. Check it out here.
The City of Falling Angels
John Berendt, who wrote the wildly popular and very funny Midnight in the Garden of Evil about Savannah, Georgia, wrote another book called "The City of Falling Angels" about Venice. Like Midnight, the book is funny, interesting, and filled with a colorful cast of characters. Also like Midnight, it starts much better than it ends. Midnight was ostensibly about a murder, but it was hard to get into the details of it by the end when what you really wanted to do was just keep meeting interesting people. The same is true about Falling Angels, which focuses around the fire Read more…
This is what I’m craving most right now.
Mary and I actually did a pretty good panino at home yesterday. Prosciutto, fresh mozzarella, roma tomatoes, basil from the deck, and a good ciabatta from the store and then grilled. It really was 99% as good as what we had in Italy. But man, it's an expensive lunch.
Question for the day
Something I was thinking about in Italy … we translate Venezia as Venice; Firenze as Florence; Roma as Rome. And yet the non-major cities we don't translate. Siena is Siene, Volterra is Volterra, Vernazza is Vernazza. This holds true across most foreign countries it seems. Moscow is a rough translation of Muskva, for example, but Vladivostok is Vladivostok. Why translate large city names but not others? Why didn't we just call Firenze Firenze?
The Social Network: The new “Behind The Music?”
I would highly recommend The Social Network as a great drama with good comedy. A really well-done film. Good acting, good director, good script. (just be warned not all facts are necessarily accurate). But what interested me about the film was how close it is to the story we love to tell about rock bands. Band gets together. Band strikes it big. Band has glorious time of it with women, cash, and drugs. Band relationships start to show cracks. Band falls apart. (I would recommend the South Park parody of the story with Guitar Hero if you want to see Read more…
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