It is the birthday of the late Shel Silverstein, author of "A Boy Named Sue" and "Where the Sidewalk Ends" along with various poems and cartoons for Playboy such as "Uncle Shelby's AZB Book -- a Primer for Tender Young Minds", which you can read online.
R is for red The Fire Engine Is Red The Fireman's Hat Is Red Does The Fireman In The Red Hat Come To Your House In His Red Fire Engine With The Siren? No? Too Bad The Fireman Only Goes To Places Where There Is A Fire
While esteemed colleague Sarah is away in Austria for the PEZ meeting, I will be taking care of not one but two bunnies: Little Wee and Waboose. [more]
I baked a batch for Gero's moving in party and they were promptly devoured. Sunday I baked another dozen and gave half to Sarah and the other half to her parents. They were okay, and so were the bagels. This morning I baked another batch for Ron, who donated a large rabbit cage to Sarah to help accommodate the new bunny, Waboose. Biatch numba four I'm a cranking out and they are looking rad.
It's after midnight, and I went out to take a leak when I smelled the chemicals lingering in the darkness. Someone just tagged the out of our stairwell. A quick look at different tags and media used, I guess it was about three to five kids. Thanks a lot, assholes.
On this day in 2001, it was a clear, crisp, sunny morning in New York City. Students were in their second week of school. People were getting to work in cars, buses, and trains. Alessandra Fremura had planned on leaving for work at 8:00, but her babysitter was 20 minutes late. Virginia DiChiara couldn't get her golden retrievers to come in from the backyard, so she decided to have another cup of coffee. Kenneth Merlo was supposed to go in the office, but he decided to spend the morning helping a friend hook up her computer instead of going to his office. Michael Lomonaco stopped in the lobby of the World Trade Center to order some reading glasses from the one-hour eyeglass store. Michael Jacobs was running late when he reached the Trade Center lobby. He rushed to make the elevator, but the doors slid shut in his face. A musician named Michelle Wiley was at home in her apartment. She sat down at her piano in her nightgown and shower shoes, and stared out her window at the Twin Towers before beginning to play.
My grandma, Adeline, is not doing so well. She is well into her seventies, and is currently fighting a downhill battle against a cancer of the mouth against which she is now undergoing treatment.
On this day in 1904 Hellen Keller graduated with honors from Radcliffe University, the first blind and deaf woman to ever graduate from college. A very remarkable gal.
She learned to comunicate by touch, and then later to actually speak (video).
My own personal victory today is that I learned that the S-Bahn tickets are also good for the buses. [more]
