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Friday, July 10, 2009

Say "Hello" to the little baby Mosley



Born at 10:01pm EST on July 7th, 2009. Mother and baby are doing fine.



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Friday, July 03, 2009

Waiting. Still Waiting.

Still no baby, so let's throw out another quote. This is one of my most recent favorites from Mimi Smartypants:
The kitchen torch came with a crème brûlée cookbook, which I also have never used, although yesterday all of my cookbooks fell off of their kitchen-window-ledge shelf (more on this in a minute) and as I labored to set things right I noticed that under the large title CRÈME BRÛLÉE the tagline read, "America's Favorite Dessert." Which I think is stretching the truth an awful lot, because nothing with three different diacritical marks is ever going to be America's Favorite anything.



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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

4th and centimeters

Some doofus over at CNN just wrote a piece on the election of Al Franken and the creation of a filibuster proof 60 seat majority in the Senate. Here is the headline (click to enlarge):


So let me get this straight: After all these years of Conservative dominance in Congress and the utter financial and physical ruin that the United States has suffered because of it, the best this guy can come up with as an argument against liberal power is... the friggin metric system?!

No laughing matter, indeed. The GOP really is that pathetic.



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Roscoe Lee Browne Quote of the Month: July 2009

Mrs. Mosley is now five days past her due date and could deliver at any moment, so you'll forgive if, once again, I skip the backstory and just give you a quote. Anyway. Oliver & Company. Enjoy:

Francis: "Isn't it rather dangerous to use ones entire vocabulary in a single sentence?"



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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

"Goldie"

This may qualify as the coolest thing in the state of Alabama (via Boing Boing):


Goldie, the sculpture that looks like a rusty, prone robot, lies mute on Woods Quad. Curious, delighted visitors drawn to the enchanting novelty of a dead or sleeping robot hanging out on the grass in the middle of the University stand next to it and pose for pictures.

But the artwork and its sculptor – UA graduate student Joe McCreary – have a serious story to tell. Goldie symbolizes the closing of Birmingham’s Sloss Furnaces in 1972 and America’s passage into the post-industrial era. The robot is not so much dead or sleeping as turned off.

"The robot's been decommissioned, shut off," McCreary says. "It's not needed anymore."

McCreary's sculpture will lie out in the Quad until December. The artwork, which may weigh as much as 2 tons, brings a dynamic change of pace to viewers absorbed in UA's academic life.

"Goldie is a figurative work, so people relate to it," says Craig Wedderspoon, associate professor of art, who teaches sculpture. "People see in it a reflection of the human condition. They imagine Goldie in different scenarios. It's a nice break from the perils and stresses of academic life."



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Monday, June 22, 2009

This could sustain me all week.



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