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Sub-Evil Boy does another fine job in Peter Pan
Sub-Evil Boy (and about 80 other kids) just finished another crazy week at the Prairie Fire summer theater camp in Barrett, Minnesota. This summer’s play was their adaptation of Peter Pan, which was a bit odd since Sub-Evil had played the part of John in the high school production of Peter Pan just a few [...]
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O’Reilly’s long lost cousins?
Just after finishing the previous long rant I stumbled across these great shots from Clearly Ambiguous over on Flickr. WeatherGirl and I both thought they looked like a creepy alien things from a sci-fi thriller. Yikes! Thanks to C.A. for these and many other very cool shots! No tag for this post. Related posts No [...]
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Two great quotes from The Daily Show
You know that as you and your kids get older, they serve an increasingly crucial role in keeping your old-fart-self in touch with what’s hip and trendy so that you can actually talk to one’s students without sounding like a complete fossil. My students have been talking about The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for [...]
Sensible people and their 15 minutes of fame
Every now and then the universe provides small signs that not all is lost and the looneys don’t completely run the show. The fact that March of the penguins is selling out in Madison (and that the Wisconsin State Journal had the sense to quote my son and mother on the issue) gives me a [...]
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No waterpark complex for Morris, for now
The Morris Sun-Tribune reports in this article (registration needed :-( ) that the waterpark initiative (discussed earlier in the context of the school levy) failed by a vote of 876 against and 543 in favor. Mayor Wilcox has not given up, however: “It’s not a dead issue,� she said. “It will come back. And sooner [...]
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Schools are more important than pools
Below is a letter to the editor of the Morris Sun-Tribune that appeared in the 27 July 2005 edition (requires registration :-( ) under the title (of their choosing) of “Pool or no pool, support levy”. This was written by Sub-Evil Boy and I while we were in Wisconsin, and then dictated over the phone [...]
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