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Midsummer Festival, NYC, June 25 2010, 2

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Midsummer Festival, NYC, June 25 2010

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Picture Words Random: "Verb", "Very Common"

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"Collapse Fight Pair"

Random Picture Words: "Adjective", "Obscure"

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"Postfetal, uneaved, unchiming"

Random Word Pictures Part 1: "Noun", "Obscure"

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Simple process.  Go here , set word type to "noun", then set complexity to "obscure", then do a google image search on the first three words that come up and choose the first picture that comes up that doesn't contain the word in the url of the site where the picture resides. "Comitesse, Zizyphus, Ennasyle"

Rated R

The following post has not been rated by the MPAA. I recently had one of those little reminders of the place and time that we're living in.  You know, one of those little nuggets of truth that you often find buried way in the back of a news story, though this particular excavation did not happen in a straight news article. I was reading a New York Times review of "The Killer Inside Me", a new film based on the Jim Thompson novel of the same name.  I haven't read any of Thompson's work though I am aware of it from friends who have recommended it and also through the Pere Ubu album Why I Hate Women which was inspired by Thompson's writing.  Jim Thompson's novels are, to my understanding, very dark and extremely violent almost to the point of absurdity.  The film review seemed to confirm this but when I got to the end where the Times puts the MPAA rating and a brief description of the reason for said rating I found this little satori: "Rated R for

More Stuff About Trains and Those Who Ride Them

Now THIS is the kind of citizen journalism I can get behind and what is, for me, one of the few but great joys of the monstrosity that is the World Wide Web.  Someone out there decided to create a central resource where you can find the public transit announcements from systems all over the world.  Many of them have links to mp3's so you can feel like you are right there on the train in just a few clicks.  Absolutely riveting.  I fear I will waste hours on that site but hell, that's what the Web is for, ain't it? Of course the NY tri-state area has at least one site of its own .  I'm sure there are more.  All this bing-bonging reminded me of what happened a couple weeks back when I took NJ Transit from NYC out to meet some curling friends at a Somerset Patriots game.  The ride from NY Penn to the Pats ballpark is close to an hour and 20 minutes long and requires a transfer.  On a warm Friday night this is not something someone should do with a dry mouth and one

Journalism

While we're on hiatus, check this out. 

Check Please

Eating won ton soup and chicken wings when the bill finally came due , the terrible invoice, the cost of losing an argument while it was cold out finally comes in the late spring. The won ton soup had hot sauce in it maybe or that hot mustard that comes with the take out in tiny plastic envelopes or does it matter? The bill came delivered by a fellow debtor Put it in a pocket and walk with a limp that never leaves