Kenneth Sutton's aide-mémoire
On my flights to and from California, the in-flight entertainment promoted two new TV shows with bearish leading men. Looks like we’re making the mainstream!
First, of course, there were Richard Karn in Home Improvement and Kevin James in King of Queens. But now we have two romantic leading men: Kyle Bornheimer in Worst Week and Jay Mohr in Gary Unmarried.
If you search around (even on the series websites I link to above), you’ll find several furry shirtless photos of each.
As a sometime-participant in community-supported agriculture, I don’t find the idea of community-funded reporting entirely oddball. I even think it’s a creative idea. But I want to see how it works out.
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12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882
Copied verbatim from Noli Irritare Leones because it is just so good:
Heard in the social room after meeting for worship this Sunday
What Quakers are like: “We’re like a small yappy terrier that doesn’t know it’s small.”
Very nice set of snapshots taken during the British Big Garden Birdwatch are up at guardian.co.uk.
The most amazing game, still in development: Auditorium. (With a tip of the hat to Jason Kottke.)
Barack and Michelle Obama at “We are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial” on Sunday January 18th 2009. Kevin Mazur/Courtesy of HBO via image.net. Creative Commons some rights reserved.
Show your stuff! A different kind of sermon contest.
We want sermons that explore the awkwardness of too much privilege, right-wing relatives, the drunk stranger in the back pew, our pad in the comfy end of the global village, litter in the poor part of town.