Hating America

From:The Hudson Review

Living in Europe, I gradually came to appreciate American virtues I'd always taken for granted, or even disdained-among them a lack of self-seriousness, a grasp of irony and self-deprecating humor, a friendly informality with strangers, an unashamed curiosity, an openness to new experience, an innate optimism, a willingness to think for oneself and speak one's mind and question the accepted way of doing things.

Some interesting info in this one.

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Mon
2
Aug '04

Names

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Now that we know the gender of the little guy, the next questions we always get is "Have you picked a name yet?" But because we are responsible adults and are not allowed to say "We just found out that it was a boy 3 days ago you stupid monkey! ...

See the rest on [the baby] page.

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Sun
1
Aug '04

Book Fair

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Today TBWITWW and I went to the Newberry Library for their annual book fair. TBWITWW and I are a little book crazy so library book sales are like, I don't know... half off at The Gap or something. So we got...

  • Heloise's Work and Money Savers by Heloise Cruse (1967)
  • How to Clean Practically Anything by The Editors of Consumer Reports Books (1996)
  • Better Homes and Garden's New Cookbook (The red and white checkerboard cover, no year listed, but there's none of that new-fangled "Metric" nonsense)
  • Cracking the GMAT by Geoff Martz (2001)
  • The Weekend Quilt by Leslie Linsley (1986)
  • Martinsville: Report of the Illinois Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility Siting Commission on its Inquiry into the Martinsville Alternative Site by Seymour Simon, William J. Hall and Carolyn Raffensperger (1992)
  • The White Plague by Frank Herbert (1982)
  • Flash Forward by Robert J. Sawyer (1999)
  • The Deus Machine by Pierre Ouellette (1993)
  • What to Expect When You're Expecting by Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Eisenberg Murkoff and Sandee Eisenberg Hathaway, R.N. (1988)
  • VHS- Olympic Winter Games: Moments of Glory (1991)
  • CD- The World So Wide by Dawn Upshaw (1998)
  • CD- God Fodder by Ned's Atomic Dustbin (1991)
  • Vinyl-Symphony No.8, in B Minor ("Unfinished") by Schubert (no idea of the date, but it's older and in better shape than you)

All this for less than $15.00 Not bad I say... Not bad at all.

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