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Today’s Burlington Free Press… Zucker, a high school physics teacher at St. Johnsbury Academy, guesses he had a tenth of a second to react. He threw his arms over his head and slammed his axes into the snow. The axes went all the way through the snow to the ice beneath, and Zucker thought he’d [...]

Tweet-n-Bowl – Spare Time in Colchester, Vermont – March 12, 2009…

Sure, Mythbusters is cool because its skepical and sciencey and because they tackle fun myths and urban legends and idioms. Sure I enjoy the dynamic between laconic, dour Jamie and hyper dorky, exuberant Adam. But really, I love Mythbusters because they are my people. Emily and I were just saying the other day how we [...]

He writes… I’m a bohemian type, so I could scarcely be bothered to do anything “financially sound” in my entire adult life. Last year was the first year when I’ve felt genuinely sorry for responsible, well-to-do people. Suddenly they’ve got the precariousness of creatives, of the underclass, without that gleeful experience of decades spent living-it-up. [...]

On New Year’s Eve, my Uncle Harry sat down with the Simmon cousins in the midst of Simmstock 2009 to play jug on the Louden Wainright song, “Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road.” Before we began, he treated us to his world-famous rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner,” for which ABC News dubbed [...]

I was out of town when the email with this link got sent out so this is a little late. Enjoy…

Our lost weekend in the midwest has come to an end and I’m back sitting at my desk at work. I wish it didn’t have to end but I’m glad to be home. I had only limited access to the internet on the trip so I was almost totally unaware of what was happening in [...]

Don’t you hate it when people say that this time of year? Me too. Emily and I are going on a little holiday visit with family in the Simmon homeland for New Year’s. We will be drinking and playing music and Mafia and generally relaxing like hell. My uncle’s house in teh swank, but his [...]

My peeps at The Contrarian Media empire have got themselves some new digs, courtesy of Contrarian resident tubes-nerd and Kate Bush fan, Tanner McCuin. Tanner fashioned Casey and the boys (we seriously need some gender equity over there) a fancy new blog using WordPress, thus shedding the last vestiges of the old Solid State paradigm [...]

I wrote a lengthy post yesterday about California’s proposition 8 and the definition of the word “right” as it pertains to constituations and case law and WordPress ate it and spit half of it back up. I got frustrated and couldn’t rewrite the thing. I’ll get to it soon. Been busy lately but have lots [...]