'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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For anyone who's interested, I've put up photos of my trip to America last year here: [link]
For those wondering why they're all of animals rather than people, I will point out that this should surprise no one. For those who note that the Lilybean is an exception to this, I will note that this too should surprise no one.
More photos, these ones of my trip to the Red Centre with Wallybee: [link]
If you happen to live in one of these states-
The Whole Foods Market stores in Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina will donate $1 for every king cake sold to the White Boot Brigade, a project of Loyola University's Market Umbrella.
The White Boot Brigade represents a small band of Louisiana shrimpers who are rescuing traditional wild shrimp harvesting with smaller, smarter, boutique production and marketing. Hurricane Katrina has left the state of commercial fishing families in perpetual crisis, with the loss of any shrimper impacting the regional economy, restaurant culture, and the state's reputation as Sportsman's Paradise. The brigade cultivates new markets that reward their triple bottom line of economic innovation, ecological sustainability, and cultural preservation.
My review of Monbiot's Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning is now up in electronic form in Gristmill. (It was originally published in the February issue of Z Magazine.)
George Monbiot's "Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning" is a brilliant, flawed, and deeply important look at what it will take to slow global warming below a catastrophic level.
I'm totally available for preorder at Amazon!
Will the Vampire People Please leave the Lobby?
If you want to preorder from Amazon, please use the Buffista link so the board gets a wee royalty as well.
High Hat #8 is up. There's a lot of love in this issue, as the Potlatch section is all about first loves. I especially invite you to check out Erika Jahneke on Hill Street Blues. There's a lovely and heartbreaking remembrance of the filmmaker Helen Hill and New Orleans in general by Phil Nugent, and reading it may have broken me for good. There's plenty of other brilliant articles, so please drop by and read what pleases you.
Tomorrow (Thursday's) episode of The Office was penned by Joss Whedon.
t edit My bad. He directed the episode, but did not write it.
A new lesson is up at Gothic Charm School! On Goths Dating Non-Goths; Or Dating Outside One’s Subcultural Boundries and Why It’s Okay..
[x-posted from Good Riddance]
Hey everyone. Since there seems to be a lot of free-floating anxiety in the Good Riddance thread, I'd like to ask a favour.
Can anyone who signed up for the first, non-slacker exchange and HASN'T sent out a gift yet please send me an email (profile addy is fine) letting me know:
- if you need to drop out of the exchange, or
- if you're still in, a rough estimate of when you'll be mailing your gift.
I'll either find a pinch-hit Santa or let your giftee know when they can start stalking the postal worker again.
On Gristmill - a wonkish piece on the history of emissions trading Pre-kyoto:
Emissions trading: A mixed record, with plenty of failures