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Month: May 2010

  • the zoo

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    the zoo

  • diversity at the conservancy

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    … comes down to which color Prius you own.

  • champions league

    dear lord baby jesus.

    tottenham hotspur (click here if you don’t know what that means) just beat somebody. and that somebody (manchester city) spent over $190m on players this season BEFORE THEY EVEN PLAYED THEIR FIRST GAME.

    and now they’ve won the right to compete next year against the top teams in europe, to decide who is the best club of the continent.

    considering that, less than a year ago, i thought they were going to be dropped to the minor leagues — that’s pretty @#%@ing awesome.

    (i’m really sorry if you don’t know what any of that meant.)

  • guestbook: jenny alex

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  • propaganda

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    i can’t decide if this looks like an old-school soviet propaganda poster (“defend our babies!”) or the cover photo of sparklet’s latest CD (her take on the joshua tree, maybe).

    either way, i hope sparklet is a benevolent dictator/cult icon.

  • “squirrel!!”

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    on the flight back from manchester, with a small nod to “up!“

  • sydney and the citros

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    sydney and the citros, worcester, massachusettes

  • rye beach, n.h.

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    there are just about 1,000 things that the lady sparkler and i love about new england — family, seafood, what passes up there for a “hot” day — but near the top is the coast.

    we spent many most of our trips up her out on a boat of some kind or other, and even when we were landlocked there was always a trip to petey’s (on the water) for seafood.

    and so, on the way out of town, we stop at petey’s for a little take out seafood … and ate it on the hood of our rental car while baby sparklet slept in the back seat.

    if it gets much better than this, i’m a little nervous to see what that looks like.

  • week twenty-nine

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    photo of the week // week twenty-nine

  • cousins

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    i was raised in a family where both my parents were only children, so we used to joke that we had a family reunion every night for dinner.

    it’s not until i was much older that i realized how deep our family was on paul and gloria’s side, and during this trip sparklet must have met 15 new cousins this weekend. we didn’t even make it to the front door before we “lost” the baby, and sparklet made the rounds for about three solid hours before she made it back to me again (for 20 minutes, before she was gone another two hours).

    in the meantime, we got to see/meet/laugh with some of our new (and old) favorite people in the world — there was a real magic in the air. things went so well, that we already have our first reunion in i-don’t-know-how-many-years planned for this August … which, poetically enough, is when we promised paul and gloria we’d come and see them this year.

    leave it to those two to bring the family together even after they are gone themselves.

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    new hampshire // may