Archive for September, 2007
2007 Walk for PKD
The time has come again for me to allow a greater cause to supersede my desire for to impose some limit on self-disclosure in my blogging. Some months ago, I wrote about a local man who has PKD–Polycystic Kidney Disease. The man needed help, so I made the post, and I [Read More]
Superbad
(8/10 slices of toast) Superbad is a gem of a teen comedy, and that’s saying a lot from someone who’s always disliked or been prejudiced-without-having-seen them. When one of my friends had said a couple of weeks ago that I remind him of the kid in Superbad, I [Read More]
Bush: We’re kicking ass in Iraq…kinda like Brownie was doin’ a helluva job with Katrina
Mr Bush perhaps summed it up best when the Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile greeted him at the airport and asked “How was Baghdad?” “We’re kicking ass,” Mr Bush responded. - Phillip Coorey in the Sydney Morning Herald, 9/5/2007 [Read More]
Thomas Stith “Mayor of Durham” already breaking the law
As Barry reports, Durham mayoral candidate Thomas Stith, who promises to be tougher on crime than incumbent Bill Bell, is in violation of the Durham ordnance that prohibits election signs prior to 45 days before an election. Thomas Stith Mayor of Durham signs have popped up [Read More]
Drinking at Duke (circa September 1993)
Uncovered in a Toastie ’97 entry from Saturday, September 4, 1993, I wrote this for a freshman writing class. Duke and drinking- I knew that the latter was embedded in the essence of the former, although this fact did not bother me in the least as I prepared to attend [Read More]
Happy 10th Birthday Zellouisa!
Zellouisa turns ten today. Nine years and eleven months ago, I brought her back to Durham from Eden, NC, where a coworker had found the hand-sized kitten curled up by the gutter. My coworker had a dog and was going to take the kitten to the shelter right away if I [Read More]
