Friday, February 25, 2011

Oscar 2011. We're Invited.

It’s that time again, Hollywood’s self-congratulating, door-prizes weekend. ABC’s take on the festivities is “Oscar. You’re Invited,” emphasizing the award (singular) above the show (the Oscars, plural), which will surely cause confusion on Twitter. I don’t see that many new films a year. I caught The...
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Monday, February 21, 2011

Sound Thinking

Dust of SnowRobert FrostThe way a crowShook down on meThe dust of snowFrom a hemlock treeHas given my heartA change of moodAnd saved some partOf a day I had rued.There was no crow, but Frost’s poem popped into my head as I was trying to see some beauty and whimsy in this latest blanket of the white...
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Monday, February 7, 2011

Ms. Blandings Builds Her Dream Bath

One fine day last October I gave my bathtub a long hard look, after a long hard scrub, and came to the conclusion that no amount of industrial nor organic cleaner was going to help brighten the classic, basic, old New York bathtub. It was put in when the building was a gut rehab in 1984. Its slip resistant...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

February: Tradition Soup

February is a month unique for its multiple holidays that virtually cascade into each other. February 2 is Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin and the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple, considered the end of Epiphany by C of E. (In ancient times, a woman who gave birth...
              
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