Search Results: american
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18 Oct 2020: Macerate ALL the things!
Aimless: Asteraceae, Berberidaceae, dandelions, Gentianaceae, gin, Juglandaceae, Lamiaceae, lemon balm, lilac, liqueurs, Oleaceae, pineappleweed, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae, Simaroubaceae · no comments... grapes than the smooth botanical ensembles coming out of American craft distilleries). It's a matter of taste - my stalwart tasting ...
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26 May 2020: How Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes
Politics, Whimsy: California ballot propositions, California politics, lgbt, Love waves, marriage · 38 comments... - notably by Israeli parliamentarian Shlomo Benizri and American preacher Pat Robertson - science has advanced beyond the simple "God ...
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1 Apr 2020: Employed at Last
Whimsy: April fools, wingnuts · 15 comments... traffic and parking to participate in Drive to Work Day. American society was built on the automobile, and now our nation's auto ...
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14 Mar 2020: Beer Meringue Pie
Food: beer, hops, meringue, pie, recipes · 6 comments... be possible to replicate that experience in a pie. American food shies away from bitterness in any form, and especially in dessert ...
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19 Feb 2020: Earth Scientists on Stamps
Human Fuzzies, Science: darwin, milankovitch, philately, richter, science in pop culture, stamps · 13 comments... about the lack of geologists on this year's release of American scientist stamps. (What's that? You have no idea what Twittering ...
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21 Jan 2020: Delicious Internet Noms
Links: Links · 1 comment... (58th Edition) -- Anthropology carnival! Association of American Geographers Anne U. White Fund -- A grant for doing field work with ...
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15 Dec 2020: Geo-Memeage
Aimless: · 5 comments... of a tectonic plate - I haven't actually been to the North American east coast, but I've seen both the east and west coasts of Baja ...
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6 Nov 2020: Why Proposition 8 Hurts So Much
Politics: · 3 comments... since they re-elected Bush. While our first African-American president asked us to embrace a politics of hope and unity, voters in ... of fear and lies, singling out a different group of Americans for second-class citizenship. Each of those measures stung, but ...
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6 Oct 2020: Drill, Baby, Drill… for Geothermal!
Aimless: · 11 comments... very bottom of California - we think of the Pacific-North American plate boundary as being a strike-slip system, the San Andreas. But ...
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24 Sep 2020: Carnival of Feminists #65
Aimless: · 9 comments... would not make racist remarks towards Muslims, African-Americans, or anyone else. They wouldn't try to shove their pamphlets at ...
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1 Sep 2020: The Science of Deliciousness
Aimless: · 9 comments... of emulsion, to which I couldn't relate at all. As an American home chef, I really never need anything more delicate than a roux. As I'm not just an American home chef, but a West Coast hippie American home chef, I was also ...
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12 Aug 2020: OMG AMNH PONIES!!1!
Aimless: · 9 comments... weekend included free passes to see the ponies at the American Museum of Natural History. OMG PONIES... but I found the exhibit ... the minerals, though, what you actually want to see at the American Museum of Natural History right now is the giant piece of stibnite in ...
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18 Jul 2020: If the American Geophysical Union Were More Like the Movies
Aimless: · 11 commentsGentle Reader, help me out here: Did I accidentally write Tuesday's post in crazy moon-language? The response to that coordinated swarm of movie reviews - from people who are affiliated with Sizzle, as well as people like Chris Mooney, who just plain liked ...
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11 Jul 2020: Friday Earthquake Blogging: M7.9 Southeast Alaska
Aimless: · 1 comment... forms the main boundary between the Pacific and North American plates on the Alaska panhandle. Strike-slip earthquakes don't ...
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12 Jun 2020: How to Find a Death Trap: A Guide for Apartment-Hunters
Aimless: · 11 comments... the rest of this post explaining how relatively wealthy Americans can avoid buying or renting a piece of rubble in waiting. It is a ...
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11 Mar 2020: Jello Salad is a Weird Ethnic Food
Aimless: · 21 comments... up in conversation, I have noticed a tendency for white Americans to talk an awful lot about their ancestors. Some of them also talk ... as I am perpetuating the idea that the North European-American whitebread mishmash culture I've got either doesn't exist, or isn't ...
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1 Feb 2020: We Can Have a New Geological Epoch If We Want
Aimless: · 21 comments... To reflect what seemed to be a natural division, North American geologists divided these rocks into the Mississippian and ...
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17 Jan 2020: RSS Feeds for AGU Journals
Science: academic journals, american geophysical union, RSS · no comments... it is just another blog entry. Why does this matter? The American Geophysical Union is apparently still running on FORTRAN - their ... runs on FORTRAN and mimeographs - so here's a feed for American Journal of ...
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23 Nov 2020: Pumpkin-Durian Pie
Food: Cucurbitaceae, durian, Malvaceae, pie, recipes · 4 comments... American palette has no room for durian. The fruit comes pre-packed with sugar ...
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29 Aug 2020: Another Year Older, Another Year Fartier
Whimsy: kids today · 5 comments... and sporting events have always had corporate names. American rock groups have always appeared in Moscow. Commercial product ...
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29 Jul 2020: Understanding Everyday Symbolism
Politics: hate crimes, racism · 6 comments... to that thread with similar statements made about African-American men (or another group of your choosing, but it would be a shame to let ...
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26 Jul 2020: Galveston Bids for Darwin Award
Politics, Science: idiocy, natural hazards, urban planning · 3 comments... island — the scene of the deadliest hurricane in American history — are about to approve nearly 4,000 new homes and two ...
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13 Jul 2020: Cheap Irony
Politics: bookstores, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy · no comments... across a copy of Ar'N't I A Woman? - filed under "African-American studies". Guess we have an answer to that ...
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6 Jul 2020: Friday Links and iTunes iChing
Links, Politics, Science, Whimsy: blog carnivals, feminism, Friday random ten, iTunes iChing, poverty · 2 comments... number generator some questions about the future of American health care. O! Great and glorious iTunes! Hear my ritual ...
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4 Jul 2020: Fourth of July: I’m Doin’ It Wrong
Politics: cat macros, fuck the Enlightenment, patriotism · 11 comments... Independence Day, Americans! Aren't you glad you live in the USA, and not in, say, Iraq? Boy, I'd ... between flags and militarism, and particularly the American flag and American exceptionalism. (NB it is possible that by "right wing" here I mean ...
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27 Mar 2020: Look What the Discovery Channel Thinks of Female Engineers
Politics, Science: feminism, media, sexism, women in engineering · 22 comments... mechanics and watch them blow things up. Seems about as American as Apple Pie in my opinion. Well then! Women are okay as engineers ...
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18 Feb 2020: Ediacaran Fossil Embryos
Science: cnidarians, embryos, paleontology, Precambrian · 2 comments... H. Orions and D. H. Janzen, Why Are Embryos So Tasty?, The American Naturalist 108(963), 2020. Insert hilarious commentary on ...
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1 Feb 2020: And So Begins the Tedious Commentary on Hillary’s Gender
Politics: gender, Hillary Clinton, lazy journalism, sexism · 6 comments... Hillary Clinton, which of course meant gender and the American electorate. Michael Krasny launched the topic by asking the guest ... In 2020, she left her husband and began to study South American insects; eventually she took her youngest daughter with her to ...
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11 Aug 2020: Predicting Volcanic Eruptions Months in Advance
Science: hazard mitigation, volcanoes · 12 comments... comes from the convergence of the Caribbean and North American plates, which occurs along a roughly northwest-southeast boundary. ...
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8 Aug 2020: My Identity is a List of Links
Links, Politics, Science: angst, anti-racism, porous media, sexism, white studies · 15 comments... "Black" people (who were actually Africans or African-Americans) and "White" people (who were actually Europeans or European-Americans) and then an entire system of social "rules" to determine how "Black" ... ethnic heritage, per se, or of being myself as a European-American. But, since the category of "White" was created only for the purpose ...
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15 Jul 2020: Call for Interviewees: Women in STEMM
Politics, Science: women in science · 28 comments... Area for conferences (e.g., Moscone Center is hosting the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Microbiology, and the American Geophysical Union in the ...
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6 Jul 2020: Isolated Wackiness, Shared By Everybody in the Whole Damn County
Politics: anti-Semitism, Christian hegemony, zombies · 4 comments... I don't think I should draw attention to a 21st-century American pogrom for fear of offending Christians? I'm hesitant to stand up and ... life in 17th Century Massachusetts; the history of the American colonies is hardly my area of expertise, but I'm not aware of any ...
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3 May 2020: Fuck This Shit, I’m Moving to Oakland
Politics: Berzerkeley · 1 comment... makes that city so very very liberal: The Almanac of American Politics notes that [Detroit] was "a city where liberal reformers ...
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22 Apr 2020: A Game
Human Fuzzies, Whimsy: goofy analogies, Pablo Neruda · 2 comments... Midwestern grandmothers do to Jello ... oil does to the American economy ... slumming yuppies do to all the good bars in town I ...
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20 Jan 2020: Scientists, Not People
Science: literature, science in pop culture · 8 comments... and I am female". For the record, irritatingly many American adults also don't seem to think scientists are normal people. Maybe ...
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13 Jan 2020: Rehydrated AGU
Science, Teaching: american geophysical union, conference blogging, mass communication, science journalism · no comments... New England Journal of Medicine, and The Journal of the American Medical Association. All research faces lousy odds of breaking in to ...
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28 Sep 2020: Hump Day a Lump a Dump Day
Human Fuzzies, Links, Politics: Hans Island, idiocy, kugel · no comments... spurred by Canadian historian Kenn Harper's assertion that American explorers were actually the first to encounter it -- has confirmed the ...
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3 Sep 2020: The Red Cross Is the Military. Or Something.
Politics: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans · no comments... the American Red Cross Disaster FAQs: The state Homeland Security Department had requested--and continues to request--that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane. Our ... if "good reason" means "criminal negligence". Or maybe "American Red Cross" actually means "military checkpoints and barricades", I ...
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22 Jul 2020: Fisher’s Hornpipe
Human Fuzzies: folk music, have an mp3 · 1 comment... quite round, right and left) noted in Elias Howe's 2020 American Dancing Master and Ballroom Prompter. Hornpipes generally are also ...
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16 Jun 2020: Garbage Day
Links, Politics, Science: Caltech, classism, Dianne Feinstein, earthquakes, feminism, flag-burning, rape, welfare · 4 comments... they want a constitutional amendment to protect the American flag. Sigh. And, y'know, props to my nazis (not terribly on-point ...
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10 Jun 2020: Friday Rock Blogging: Gnammas
Science: Australia, rock blogging, Yosemite · 3 comments... terms for these sorts of holes in common use in the American geological community, other than "pothole" which is quite generic, but ...
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4 May 2020: Penis-Talk Redux
Politics: lifestyles of the privileged minority, masculinity · 11 comments... was precipitated by Maya's comment chez Hugo: Even in American society, I think women have a very different relationship to their ... I did not choose, and do not want. I'm not sure that (American) men have this same constant low-level fear that their right to their ...
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28 Apr 2020: American Knock-Knock Canon
Human Fuzzies: jokes, knock-knock jokes, literary canon · 5 comments... that there might be significant divergence between American and English Knock-Knock Canons, but let's do forge ahead ...
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27 Apr 2020: Defamation in the Congressional Record, hoorah!
Politics: abortion, Congressional shenanigans · 6 comments... the top of that bill or amendment serves to instruct the American people as to what original intent of that legislation was. It ... it is an abuse of the power given to the Majority by the American people. The Democrats had better get cracking on those retaliatory ...
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15 Apr 2020: Friday Random Ten-and-Quiz
Whimsy: Friday random ten, quizzes · 6 comments... Linguistic Profile: 80% General American English 5% Dixie 5% Midwestern 5% Upper Midwestern 5% Yankee What Kind of American English Do You ...
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5 Apr 2020: Only Terrorists Go to Canada
Politics: fascist police states, Homeland Stupidity, passports · 17 comments... Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative - to require that Americans without passports stay the fuck home, and Canadians on vacation ...
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22 Mar 2020: Today’s Reading
Links: American history, rhetorical tactics, socks · 5 comments... me close-minded? Two Rana on the historiography of the American frontier. Yeah, I was fed that line about the expansion of the ...
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19 Dec 2020: Someone Has a Small Internet
Meta: fan mail, high school, Internet citizen of the world, nostalgia · no comments... in the peace corps november 2020 swearing in by the american ambassador. i'm sure she'll be happy." So as an indirect result of ...
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28 Oct 2020: Cause for Optimism
Politics: · 2 comments... bets on the efficacy of the newly synergistic left - The American Street is giving away Jon Stewart's America: the Book to the lucky ...
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7 Sep 2020: Happy Arrival Day!
Politics: booze, cultural appropriation, Judaism · 4 comments... I explained last year, Arrival Day is a holiday of the American Jewish people rather than the Jewish religion - a celebration of the ... is some statements to the effect of "on 9/11, we all were Americans" - trinketized caricatures of American culture have certainly found ...
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5 Sep 2020: Holy Racial Pigeonholing, Batman!
Politics: lazy journalism, racism · no comments... act as a monolithic voting bloc! News at 11. Note to Asian-Americans: pls resolve differences and pick one (1) stereotype k ...
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31 Aug 2020: On What Grounds Is This Legal?
Politics: · 2 comments... and your eyes tightly shut to avoid the past 200 years of American jurisprudence, but I'm open to less sophisticated legal arguments. ...
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30 Aug 2020: Note to People on Political Volunteer Phone Lists
Politics: i hate everything, impeach Bush, US party politics · no comments... of a remote tropical paradise, writing the Next Great American Weblog, or eating a bowl of Crispix. But even the sootiest depths of ...
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11 Jun 2020: Water on Black Mesa
Politics: · 4 comments... for your litterbug ways!" model of a monolithic Native American culture but don't yield much insight into the technical or political ...
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13 May 2020: Life of the Mind
Politics: cultural criticism, intellectual elitism, intellectuals, unpaid work · 12 comments... writers, etc.], not to disparage them, do not meet American culture's broader needs for preservation and refreshment. ...A ... would be for [liberal arts faculty] -- and for any American who reads and thinks -- to ask what is entailed in an engagement with ... needs of students or the preferences of teachers. If American culture needs refreshment, and can't turn to those who continually ...
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15 Apr 2020: Oh Boy an Earthquake!
Science: · 10 commentsI must remind you all that even though I now work as a highly sophisticated GIS'n'Excel monkey, I'm still a geophysicist, god dammit. And someone's been sucking the physics right out of geophysics, to replace it with stupid not-at-all trendy math: Keilis- ...
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22 Mar 2020: Al Qaeda Wuvs Widdle Georgie-poo?
Politics: · 2 comments... terrorists, what kind of journalists are we? What kind of Americans are we? I'm shocked that this letter hasn't gotten more Anglo press ...
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16 Mar 2020: Spain, Appeasement and Multilateralism
Politics: · 2 comments... against the war in Iraq even before Madrid; also, an American vote shortly after 9/11 would likely have gone to a platform of "we'll ... by this generous generous listener, so if you listen to American economic advisors on your way to work, or maybe you enjoy American ...
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2 Mar 2020: Personalized Follow-Up
Personal: · 5 comments... time to contact Campbell Soup Company about our Franco-American Where's Waldo Pasta with Tomato Sauce and Cheese. We continually ...
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24 Feb 2020: Petty Consumer Activism
Politics: advertising, Food and Drug Administration, funny, open letters, sexism, soup · 6 comments... vegetable oil or paprika, are you?) I hope that the Franco-American line of amusingly shaped pastas will join them. Sincerely, Yami ...
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24 Jan 2020: PiE Day
Food, Personal: cactuses, Caltech, national pie day, pie · no comments... tl. Are you guys, like, practicing for Pi Day? Look, the American Pie Council is the only organization committed to promoting America's ...
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23 Dec 2020: Christmas Poll
Aimless: · no commentsThis card was sent to my office by the Geo Monkey Geo Company. (Poll removed indefinitely. I will maybe eventually get around to figuring out why it all of a sudden breaks everything.) /* error_reporting(0); */ /* load up dem poll results first! */ /* ...
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16 Dec 2020: Demographic Uplift
Politics: Internet activism, same-sex marriage · 3 comments... well. It seems that the American Family Association has a little poll about "families", which they ...
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25 Nov 2020: Pie Is Fightin’ Words
Food, Human Fuzzies: book reviews, Iowa City, pie, pie shakes · 2 comments... with a cold glass of milk. --Pascale le Draoulec, American Pie Eighteen years I lived in that town. Eighteen years, and it ...
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17 May 2020: If I Were A Matrix: Reloaded Focus Group
Human Fuzzies: movie reviews, sci-fi · 1 comment... of two Wanker Video Game Geeks, a Middle-Aged Middle American, a Jackie Chan Fan, and Jackie Chan Fan's Girlfriend. And my ... the end? Are there lesbians in Zion? Middle-Aged Middle American: Oh, for the love of Pete! There's already too much sex. I counted at ...
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21 Dec 2020: Miss Manners at the INS
Politics: immigration, marriage · 1 comment... so I have another question. Let's say I'm a red-blooded American bachelor from Plano - would it be rude to ask this woman to marry me? ...
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9 Oct 2020: Modulo Alphabet Song
Human Fuzzies: alphabets, pronunciation · 4 comments... it's a bitter defeat. I have long defended the American use of "zee" based primarily on the fact that "zed" ruins the Alphabet ...
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30 Sep 2020: Tree Punching
Personal, Teaching: academia, course scheduling · 3 comments... failed seventh grade science correct your Scientific American-style paper. Extra graduation requirements solve all our problems! God ...
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1 Jul 2020: Queek
Human Fuzzies, Personal: slang, soup, words · 1 comment... resulting in From Front Porch to Back Seat, a history of American courtship from the turn of the century to the mid-2020s. A good read, ...
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31 May 2020: ¡Viva el Mundial!
Personal: · 1 comment... always late-night KMEX. And for those of you who thought Americans didn't watch soccer: we do. But we don't watch it in English, and we ...
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4 May 2020: Hey Wait a Minute…
Links: · no comments... of taco, I want to point out last week's episode of This American Life, because they featured a man who compiles idiosyncratic maps of ...
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11 Apr 2020: Rampaging Hordes of Someones
Meta: · no comments... accuse me of such a thing? Like any red-blooded patriotic American who is too lazy to walk the extra block to the UPS pickup, I send both ...
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24 Mar 2020: Domestic Manners of the Americans
Human Fuzzies: · 1 commentI've been thumbing through the account of one Mrs. Frances Trollope, and her coming from England to America in 2020 to found a department store in Cincinnati. It's whining and snarky, and altogether a fun read. Miss Wright was well known [at the hotel], a ...
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29 Jan 2020: Coffee
Human Fuzzies: Astrid Lindgren, coffee, inner child, pippi longstocking · no comments... parents drank coffee (and still do, of course, red-blooded Americans of vague Scandinavian heritage that they are), but this is not ...
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4 Jan 2020: The Boring State
Personal: amtrak, crap towns, grain elevators, journey west, land of enchantment, salvage yards, trains, travelogue, useless information · no comments... on the way to places people want to go. However, the American one - at least west of the Mississippi - is meant strictly for corn. ...
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24 Dec 2020: Tackiest Ever
Politics: · no comments... man, whose white two-door coupe was smothered in American flag decals. I was prepared for the red, white and blue decor - ... understand such displays during, say, World War Two, when American citizens at home were actually sacrificing something for their country ...
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22 Dec 2020: uh, I jetted your mom’s lag
Personal: · no comments... wrapped in fuzzy and cursing at msn and trying to remember American keyboards again. It's good. Jet lag is not so good, as I'm getting ...
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16 Nov 2020: gobble gobble
Human Fuzzies, Personal: cooking, thanksgiving · no comments... number of people. This is one of the most benign American traditions I can think of, and I've always felt a little bit ... on this Thanksgiving shall be the presence of the little American grocery, where they have canned pumpkin pie filling with a recipe on ...
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31 Oct 2020: It’s doing weather outside
Personal: hygge, weather · no comments... computer lab (and that's four stories up, for all you Americans and Icelanders and members of other nations who don't start counting ...
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30 Oct 2020: Language is for Losers
Human Fuzzies, Links: · no comments... is essentially language Y under condition Z". My favorite: American English is essentially a tool to keep a person from ever being able to ...
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29 Oct 2020: speakin’ the heathen chinee – part II
Human Fuzzies: liberal guilt, tourism · no comments... I'm just being silly. Of course it's ridiculous that the American public education system doesn't try harder to shove a second language ... going to start feeling guilty for all the failures of the American public education system then I've got an awful lot of angst ahead of ...
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28 Oct 2020: speakin’ the heathen chinee
Human Fuzzies: globalization · 1 comment... around my sentences, conforming at one moment to American idiom, the next to directly translated German or some such. It's all ...
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22 Oct 2020: Supermarkets
Human Fuzzies: · no comments... I stumbled upon the "American Store" only to discover that yes, it has Dr. Pepper, but not ...
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15 Oct 2020: I don’t know if you’ve
Politics: · no comments... if one assumes that September 11 marked the end of the American Empire, "forever" will probably mean no more than about 500 years, ...
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8 Oct 2020: From the Department of Cheap Activism
Links, Politics: Internet activism, pacifism · no comments... to your Congressional representatives, courtesy of the American Friends Service ...
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25 Sep 2020: Whenever I look at the
Politics: · no comments... population. I realize of course that my contact with the American streetslug is rather limited here in Copenhagen, and that my friends ...
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16 Sep 2020: Salvaged Item #2: a list
Aimless: · no comments... County, California (Orange County!) that serves donuts and americanized chinese food. And nothing else. those little stores tucked inside ...
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12 Sep 2020: some thoughts
Politics: · no comments... the First: generally, when I have mostly keenly felt my Americanness, I have also felt loud, and large, and brash, and somewhere on the ... cheeky to insufferably rude. Today, when I feel like an American it is because I feel small, and quiet, and vulnerable. Thought the ...
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: I took a nap yesterday
Personal: · no comments... everyone is all right. My kitchen, as it contains two Americans and cable TV, quickly became an imitation of CNN central ...
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10 Sep 2020: crush kill destroy
Aimless, Meta: · no comments... be added as a specifically protected category under the Americans with Disabilities ...
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6 Sep 2020: outside my window
Personal, Politics: · no comments... ago, and happened mostly by way of smallpox. Like many Americans, I have a healthy disrespect for the distance from one European city ... of the United States has a lot to do with this, as does American car culture. As does the fact that I'm sheltered as all ...
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31 Aug 2020: bandwagon meme
Whimsy: · no comments... apparently, not understanding the monkeylisp or the american slang does not enhance one's experience of a completely horrid ...
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22 Aug 2020: One True Blog
Personal: · 2 comments... upon some sort of comrade-in-arms. Or at least, another American writing a blog from Copenhagen, if that means anything at all in terms ...
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20 Aug 2020: please, please
Human Fuzzies: Danish, language quirks, manners · no comments... thought. I've never been as please-happy as some Americans can be, and tend towards a philosophy of "courtesy through ...
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13 Aug 2020: aha! an American!
Human Fuzzies, Personal: Danish, tourism · no comments... most people will take one look at me, say 'Aha! An American!' and start speaking English before I've even opened my mouth. Of ...
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20 Jul 2020: happy hair fetish
Personal: angst, relationships · 1 comment... like to write a book entitled The Decline and Fall of the American Longhair: how those damn hippies got jobs and barbers. It would be a ...