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Ode to the EarthPig

Behold the humble groundhog!
In its humble hole,
Eating humble plants and things,
Kinda like a mole.
Sure, it chews your hostas,
Your flowers and veggies too,
But that’s because it’s hungry.
Just like me and you.

Happy Groundhog Day!

I wrote this song as a gift to a friend, but crazy stuff happened and I never ended up giving it. It’s not a great piece of poetry, but it’s one of the few I’ve written since Eau Claire, so I thought I may as well write it down somewhere. (Oh, and the [chords] aren’t […]

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6158935.stm
A survey found 43% of online networkers from the US felt “as strongly” about their web community as they did about their real-world friends.
It also revealed net-users had made an average of 4.6 virtual pals this year.

The survey, from the US-based Center for the Digital Future, of 2,000 individuals forms part of […]

Early this semester, I was invited to give a talk in Dr. C.K. Lemley’s Young Adult Literature class, at Grinnell College, on October 6th, 2006. They were considering the radical changes in YA Literature, so I presented on the technological evolution of the accessibility in producing and distributing verbal, visual, and aural arts (i.e. from […]

Rufus Labradoodle!! 11/9/06 4:21 PM

Thought I should share a few more pictures of my new buddy Rufus (with special guest Suki). So, here’s an album dedicated to him, from the roadtrip back from Maine through Canada (very mellow passenger), to the backyard by the lake here in Madison, a living room rub, and […]

Allagash 2004

Atticus requested this, and I thought: “Yes! Why not?”
So, here’s an album of pics from a 220-mile canoe trip I led in 2004. We started in Greenville, Maine at the south end of Moosehead Lake.  13 days later we paddled off the St. John River up the Fish River, and set ashore in the […]

He’s sitting in the car outside of Ground Zero Coffee. We’re working on “alone time”. He’s not yet comfortable in his new home, and needs to know where I am to feel safe, so we separate for short periods. I leave, he gets stressed, he gets tired of being stressed and calms down, I come […]

Just got home last night at 9pm with Rufus. He’s a one year-old labradoodle that Chris and Shelly (camp directors) offered to me because, according to the story told their 4 y.o. twin boys, I’m (let me see if I have this right…) “sad and lonely and needs Rufus to cheer him up in Wisconsin.”

They’re […]

Zombie DJ party

Spaight Street Prowl

Capitol Square Carousing

It was a busy Halloween week.
I pulled out the zombie makeup and an old dress (what you’d expect a 1980’s Professional Wrestling ‘babe’ to wear), to add a little sparkle under the overalls for the Zombie/DJ party on Thursday. Then, on Friday, the dress fit nicely in […]