To the main event! Video link to her actual moment inthe spotlight is here, but the opening speeches are also well worth paying attention to. Congratulations to you,
…Welcome to Everything
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- Japanese Fruit Bag
- Solitarot
- 1552
- Here, the earth and the sky meet; fly high
- fallout shelter
- Laughing at what we call cloudbursts and showers and drizzles; knowing these are not subtle enough to mean anything about what comes from the heavens
- Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
- a note buried in the sole of a secondhand shoe
- God plays Tuesdays at a bar in Waco
- Analogue Bubblebath 4
- The Name of the Rose
- The Name of the Rose
- Everything I Know I Learned on Acid
- a song you can barely hear
- You can win any argument on the internet by being stupid enough
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Cream of the Cool
Not too many words this time, unlike my last daylog. Tessie graduated! I made it in time for the ceremony, no thanks to Amtrak's eight-hour delay and having to get on a bus to finish the journey from Portland and my phone not working for the entire trip.
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"Kronk" is the name of a candy bar sold throughout Central America, and which I encountered in Costa Rica. According to the packaging of the bar I have in front of me (and which I have been carrying for over two months), it is made by the Marisela company, although the actual manufacturing is by the Bimbo company, a large bakery brand across all of Latin America. I am not sure which company owns which or is a brand of which. To be honest, this is the first time I have thought of it.
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Secret Origins: Another Summer Festival?
A week or so ago, I walked through the downtown park that hosts most of the summer festivals for which London, Ontario, has become noted. Sunfest, Children's Festival, Home County Folk Fest (alas, a casualty of COVID, killed after 50 years, though perhaps ready to return to life in '25), Ribfest, Bluesfest... I've lost track, and felt surprise when I saw a gathering of food trucks and some minor banners as I neared the park's
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…"I came, I saw, and God won."
- Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, paraphrasing Julius Caesar in describing
his overwhelming victory at against the Protestants at the Battle of Mühlberg, April 1547.
"Sangallo...has departed from the truth. That this is so, anyone with an unimpassioned eye can see....Sangallo...takes away all the light...leaving so many dark, lurking places above and below that they
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