MeTa comment:
"Wait, the QFC is gone?
And here is what will replace it. The whole block came down--QFC, Taco Bell, APaprtment building and two houses. It will be a six story 295 unit building to match Brix, whihc was built on the old Safeway site on Mercer and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"During his interview with Bill Moyers, Douglas Blackmon, said something to the effect that at the end of the Reconstuction, whites north and south came to a consensus about the place of blacks in this country. And it was not talked about thereafter..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by languagehat
12 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Amazing that Johnson was so dedicated to equality and did so many good things domestically, yet was so flawed in other ways.
Had he not been saddled with Viet Nam, his face would be on a coin or dollar bill of one denomination or another...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by tachikaze
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I don't understand this study. The omissions of so many armed conflicts is baffling...
An estimate of all deaths in all wars in the last 50 years it is not. It is a comparison of a new survey method to estimate violent deaths due to armed..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by homunculus, merelyglib
13 days ago
Ask comment:
"It has always struck me as being a "bonding" thing- pack to puppy and family to person.
I agree. In an apartment building where I used to live, there once was a woman who lived next door with a really sweet German Shepard-Collie mutt..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by skryche
2 weeks ago
MeTa comment:
"Is there actually someplace in the world that is so remote that you cannot get a variety of foods from around the world?
Payette, Idaho 1955" [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Atom Eyes
3 weeks ago
MeFi post:
Wrath of the Grapevine: The Roots of John Fahey
favorited 25 times, recently by kjell, hap_hazard, generalist, palimpsest, Mental Wimp, djstig, lupus_yonderboy, sleepy pete, stet, jammy, Len, GeckoDundee, nicolin, hototogisu, Martin E., PeterMcDermott, waxboy, carsonb, facetious, JohnFredra, Kinbote, SmileyChewtrain, activitystory, horsemuth, ethel
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"My view is that this is all part of the secretly ongoing LOST finale and we are all extras." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by grubi
4 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Tomorrow is Memorial Day, the day we have set aside to honor by remembering all the Americans who have died fighting for the thing we like the most about our America: the freedom we have to live as we please.
...No one would know from Memorial Day..." [
more]
favorited 9 times, recently by ztdavis, hal9k, hippugeek, JHarris, Edible Energy, marble, Navelgazer, GaelFC, ZachsMind
Last month
MeTa comment:
"5. Life is too short to be so wedded to your partisan views in such a way that you feel the need to compartmentalize the world into teams and then hate and rage against the other team. That is so rich coming from the insinuating weasel worder who in..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Dillonlikescookies, Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeFi comment:
"On an ancillary note, here, from a Mars Orbiter High Resolution Image Science Experiment shot taken on May 4, 2008, is a close up of the ice polygons characteristic of the landing site terrain.
Now, is that not the geekiest floor pattern of all..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by humannaire
Last month
MeTa comment:
"You know what I think is cool--the Phoenix Lander landed safely on target on Mars--the equivalent of hitting a golf ball in New Yrok City and having it make a hole in one in Sydney, Australia, or so they said on NPR--and the High Resolution Imaging..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by timeistight
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Ry Cooder himself has made Dark Was The Night, a touchstone in his recordings, from a first take on his first album to, more famously, an atmospheric distillation of it for the opening theme of Wim Wender's Paris, Texas, which made a sonorous single..." [
more]
favorited 2 times, recently by Jofus
Last month
MeTa comment:
"In no particular order,
Dark Was The Night--Cold Was The Ground by Blind Willie Johnson
Gone to Croatan -- Hi, Iconomy!
Sappho: Poem of Jealousy (26 Translations)
The Minstrel Show 2.0: Why Postmodern Minstrelsy Studies Matter
y2karl's 78 RPM..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by horsewithnoname
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I think that Karen Tumulty has just said it best at Swampland:If a lawmaker is to be measured by the sheer volume of his legislative accomplishments, then Senator Kennedy has been, hands down, the most important Senator of the past half-century--a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by destro
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I will say this: you do not want to eat a lot of cheese at any given time unless you wish to experience something akin to childbirth sometime later. You have been warned...." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by mecran01
Last month
MeTa comment:
"So does that make me misogynist? Racist? Chauvinist? WcityMikist? PinkSuperheroist? DaveFarist?
y2karlmarxist.
But you know it is kind of cool that we have a presidential candidate with a Cardassian first name...." [
more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Snyder, John Kenneth Fisher, BeerFilter
Last month
MeTa comment:
"I am so sorry I missed this. I was so tired and I just spaced it out. That Sunday I was whupped. As to why, had I made it, I could have regaled you all with talesabout the full Fellini meets Bukowski Monty of it for hours. That preceding Saturday..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by owhydididoit
Last month
MeFi comment:
"Thanks, valva22. I cut a lot out of the post and other than quotes, my part was pretty minimal.
One thing I omitted because of the length and subject was Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love by Dorothy Tennov, which concerns the..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by yohko
2 months ago
MeFi post:
Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison See also Phonoautograph
favorited 19 times, recently by Rarebit Fiend, LarryC, keds, streetdreams, cass, ddaavviidd, sleepy pete, katillathehun, wheelieman, arse_hat, Chinese Jet Pilot, drezdn, vacapinta, retronic, roll truck roll, cgc373, nicolin, agregoli, Peter H
2 months ago
MeFi post:
Scenes From Latcho Drom
favorited 21 times, recently by Eklek, mike3k, jessenoonan, lunachic, MetaMan, kxr, nickyskye, mediareport, opsin, madamjujujive, itsjustanalias, muymuy, ronin21, vacapinta, sleepy pete, JohnFredra, nicolin, idiomatika, dtp, tingting, theora55
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the
morning:
The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe of a finger-nail held to the
candle,
Or paring of paradisaical fruit, lovely in waning but lustreless,
Stepped..." [
more]
favorited 1 time, recently by Kat Allison
2 months ago
MeFi post:
The Geometry of Music
favorited 38 times, recently by Saxon Kane, Hal Mumkin, xod, macguffin, Rubbstone, yohko, lahersedor, garrett, fantabulous timewaster, rottytooth, Sitegeist, tickingclock, nicolin, No Mutant Enemy, Esoquo, blindcarboncopy, invertebra, deusdiabolus, pedmands, BobsterLobster, regicide is good for you, thedanimal, ErWenn, SuperSquirrel, voltairemodern, Mach5, sneebler, Cassilda, invitapriore, sleepy pete, OutlawedYeomen, chrismear, Wilder, papakwanz, fiestapais, retronic, horsewithnoname, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94
2 months ago
