Archive for December, 2006

Winter hibiscus, and other unexpected developments

Pining for Florida back in June, I bought a small hibiscus plant that bloomed in my backyard all summer long. I figured it would wither and die after I carried it indoors last month. But I woke on Christmas Eve morning to the flower you see here. It was the next best thing to celebrating the holidays in the Subtropics . . .

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The NRA’s secret graphic novel has the look and feel of Nazi propaganda. (Thanks, Max.)

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Filming on the Love in the Time of Cholera adaptation is underway in Colombia and so far involves unexpected tirades from parrots.

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Scott McLemee finds foreshadowing of Pynchon’s novelistic preoccupations in the author’s high school newspaper column, “Voice of the Hamster.”

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“Soup kitchens and Salvation Army don’t prescreen their clients, he said.” Does the MacDowell Colony qualify as a charity?

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