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Month: August 2010

  • video: how i’ll remember fenway

    this video is not mine (my brother took it with his fancy-pants camera phone) but this is exactly how i’ll remember walking into fenway for the first time. family, green monster, stadium. and they even won, too.

  • guestbook: babs

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    See All the Photos on Flickr:
    guestbook: babs

  • week forty-four

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    photo of the week // week forty-four

  • flirting with the boyfriend

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  • video: bubble gum

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jv_7X7mcpc

    two rules, do something cute and don’t eat the camera. did okay on the first. not so much on the latter.

  • james mcmurtry @ the birchmere

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    first, i have to say that i have to disclose that i just saw a 60 year old drunk woman jump on her table and start dancing to the music.

    this is one of those times where there just aren’t enough words in the english language.

    second, this is the first concert that i’ve gotten rained on while *in* the building. during the warm up act, a hole opened up in the ceiling directly in front of us and gushed water for 30 seconds.

    thankfully, it coincided with two 6+ feet tall men trying to sit down in those seats and block our view. for some reason, they decided to sit down in another part of the room and the puddle warned people off for the rest of the night.

    we thought he was great when we saw him (and his mom) six years ago in berkeley springs, but this time he seemed maybe two rungs above his usual self.

    when mcmurtry plays a six-string guitar, it sounds like it has 12. when he plays a 12-string guitar, it sounds like it has 50. his ability to rip the lid off songs — while playing solo, on acoustic guitar — is just crazy.

    that, and for once the lady sparkler didn’t have to wait the whole concert to see if she’d hear her favorite song — he played rachel’s song right off the bat.

    and all was right with the world.

    SET LIST: Melinda · Saint Mary of the Woods · Rachel’s Song · Down Across the Delaware · See The Elephant · Hurricane Party · Leonard Cohen Must Die · Choctaw Bingo · Out Here in the Middle · Restless · Safe Side · Ruby and Carlos · Levelland · Peter Pan · No More Buffalo

  • tea time

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    my godparents had a tradition where every day at 4:00 pm (“tea time”) they’d sit down together and have a drink — gloria had some kind of sweet, fruity wine; paul a rolling rock.

    i’m proud to say that sparklet and i’ve picked up the tradition …

    … granted, it’s a little later (we don’t get home until 4:45 usually).

    .. granted, instead of rolling rock i’m drinking some kind of fruity beer that would get my man card revoked (lately, lucy from starr hill or purple haze from abita).

    … granted, instead of fruity wine, sparklet is usually enjoying the classic, refined flavor of mommy juice.

    but, it’s the thought that counts. now if we can just get sparklet to start eating dinner, again.

  • three-cheese mushroom and spinach calzone

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    made a three-cheese mushroom and spinach calzone from epicurious, and the recipe was just spot-on good. one small change — it says to use parmesan, fontina and ricotta cheeses, but i used romano, fontina and mozzarella instead (as i hate ricotta, and had just run out of parmesan).

    the other thing to point out is the note in the recipe that you can usually stop by your local pizzeria and they will sell you fresh dough — it’s true, it works, and it makes the recipe overflow with awesomeness.

  • guitar hero

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    sparklet was bouncing around today to “when we were young” by the killers, so we decided to really blow her mind — and it worked.

    shattered.

  • firsts: sippy cup

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