One of these days, I really have to get started again on the England trip journal entries. The good part is yet to come – walking in Yorkshire and climbing over dozens of stylish stiles. Walking used to be a much bigger part of my life before I bought a car and became a suburbonaut – when I lived in Seattle, I didn’t own a car, and often walked home from work when I lived in Fremont and worked at the top of Queen Anne Hill. It was about a 45 minute walk, mostly downhill, through some of the prettiest…
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Seen at The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: farther down, there’s a picture of a building described in a quote on the page as “a totemized retro-futuroid coffee table joined umbilically to its Soviet-style predecessor.” No, no, no, no… it’s a giant space Dalmatian attempting to impregnate a Dachsund. Sideways. Arrroooooo!!
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The most comforting voice in morning radio,Bob Edwards is getting bounced as :NPR Host. I’m really sad to hear this news, because Bob’s voice in the morning has been a familiar part of my morning routine for so long. I’ve been a regular listener of Morning Edition since at least the early 80’s. I have to date that kind of memory by where I was living at the time and whether or not I had a pet. Such are the vagaries of memory. But through it all, Bob Edwards’ voice on the clock radio was one of the few constants…