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June 29, 2004
Meme of the week
Via AMERICAblog After you go to Fahrenheit 911, keep your ticket stub and mail it to: George W. Bush 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington DC 20500 With a note attached, "I saw what you did last summer"....
Continue reading "Meme of the week"Posted by Chris Clarke at 10:58 PM
| TrackBacks (0)Envy envy envy
Anne has an amazing picture of a Yellowstone wolf up on her blog. Which reminds me... Anne's a much better photographer than I am, so I'm not really posting out of competitiveness. I'm just taking her photo as a reminder...
Continue reading "Envy envy envy"Posted by Chris Clarke at 07:51 AM
Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)Birds of the week
Zeke and I watched this morning as one of the white-tailed kites noisily harassed the local red-shouldered hawk. The hawk, protesting loudly, flew off through a tangle of oak branches into the summer fog. Last week in the park, that...
Continue reading "Birds of the week"Posted by Chris Clarke at 07:41 AM
Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)June 27, 2004
Grand-orphan
Madelin B. Turo Xavier passed on Sunday afternoon, June 27, 2004....
Continue reading "Grand-orphan"Posted by Chris Clarke at 09:18 PM
Comments (6) | TrackBacks (0)June 24, 2004
My mother's mother
My mother and aunts took my grandmother to the hospital last night. She's there now in a morphine fog. Current thinking is she'll never come out of it. She's not that old - 88 - but she's had severe circulatory...
Continue reading "My mother's mother"Posted by Chris Clarke at 09:43 PM
Comments (5) | TrackBacks (0)June 17, 2004
Walking the dog
I come this morning upon a large, shiny, dark black spider splayed out on the sidewalk. It's about two inches from front feet to back feet, its body the size of a large pea. It's not moving. Zeke waits patiently...
Continue reading "Walking the dog"Posted by Chris Clarke at 10:36 AM
Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)June 16, 2004
Plant him face down to speed him on his way
Mark Morford usually annoys me. Today, he hits the Reagan Legacy doornail right on its mortician-coiffed head....
Continue reading "Plant him face down to speed him on his way"Posted by Chris Clarke at 06:47 AM
| TrackBacks (0)June 15, 2004
Content
It has occurred to me, this last week, that I might be enjoying the best part of my life. I am in love with a woman with whom I've lived for 15 years. After all this time, we still act...
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