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Monthly Archives: July 2009

It was a dark and stormy night…

09-Jul-09

http://antihousewife.com/2010/09/fatbet-ftw?shared=email In high school we used to read the books put together by the Bulwer-Lytton contest organizers, a yearly contest for the worst opening sentence of the worst book never written.  Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote innumerable novels, none of which promise well from their first pages.  The Last Days of Pompeii begins thus: “Ho, Diomed, well met!  […]

Rhododendrons in Bloom.

08-Jul-09

http://thehistoryhacker.com/th1s_1s_a_4o4.html The mountain laurel is on the way out, and the rosebays, Rhododendron Maximum, are now starting to bloom.  It’s amazing how late they are here – they will be blooming through most of July.  This is not a heavy-bloom year for them – almost all the plants I saw had far more seedpods than blooms.  […]

From Overlook Mountain.

08-Jul-09

I climbed Overlook Mountain, which overlooks Woodstock, just before heading down to the city.  This is the view towards the northwest, from the fire tower.

The purpose of despotic government…

05-Jul-09

… is revenue, saith Tom Paine.  Here’s the latest adventure in this realm. I’m wrapping up a nine-day stay in the City, and have some time at long last to record a few of the many, many impressions. The Friday after Michael Jackson died I met some friends at a Soho apartment and we listened […]