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Great Interview of the Week: Escaping their Rootin? Tootin? Past
2008-03-06 00:00:00 "Tequila and red wine, Beer and vodka that tasted like gin But slipped down like tears I was not on my knees by accident..." -The Broken Family Band - "Cocktail Lounge" When I first heard The Broken Family Band a couple of years ago they were a refreshing change from the standard Radio 1 Kaiser ... More About: Great , Interview , Week , Past
Gratuitous Baby Cheesecake
2008-03-06 00:00:00 More About Wordless Wednesday More About: Baby , Cheesecake
He was the one made me what I am today
2008-03-06 00:00:00 "Señores y señoras Nosotros tenemos mas influencia Con sus hijos, que tu tienes Pero los queremos Creado y areglado De Los Angeles Juana's adiccion!" Listening to Jane's Addiction, the wonderful SoCal alternative pioneers, always takes me back to Tallahassee, Florida. I lived there for a couple of years at the outset of the nineties. For a good ... More About: Today , Made
Science Tuesday: Corny Carbon Conundrum
2008-03-04 00:00:00 I feel a little bit like a traitor writing this post. I was trained as a maize geneticist and the recent interest, scientific and financial, in corn-based ethanol as a biofuel has been a boon to anyone in the corn business. The problem is that an increasing number of scientific studies ... More About: Science , Carbon , Tuesday
MP3s of the Week: International Idol Edition
2008-03-03 00:00:00 One of the guilty pleasures, among things like beef flavored Rice-a-Roni, that I hang onto from the States is American reality TV. We get the king of that genre, American Idol , a couple of days after it airs in the U.S. I have found a way to get completely hooked ... More About: International , Week , Edition
Lynched
2008-03-03 00:00:00 This post has nothing to do with Bill O'Reilly or GolfWeek magazine. No, today we're talking about the wonderful world of advertising. I tend to think of myself a discerning consumer, not easily swayed by Madison Avenue's efforts. In fact, like most people, I tend to change the channel, leave ...
Great Interview Week: It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
2008-03-02 00:00:00 "I appreciate your courtesy, your well earned politesse But you got yourself into your own mess You know the demons in the design A good idea at the time..." -OK Go - "A Good Idea At The Time " Well, Great Interview Week began with self-indulgent navel gazing and thus it shall end. Hopefully the bits ...
Happy Mother?s Day
2008-03-02 00:00:00 For reasons known only to a handful of English dowagers, Mother 's Day (Mothering Sunday) falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent in the British Isles. I suspect that this vacillating date was established both to test British boys' piety and to confuse the young lads, potentially leading to a full ... More About: Happy
Great Interview Week: Scientific Serendipity in Sydney
2008-02-28 00:00:00 Great Interview Week continues in a scientific vein today. In last week's Nature, a paper coming out of Dee Carter's lab at the University of Sydney described the discovery of a previously unknown marine species. That, in itself, is noteworthy. However, the organism they found - an unremarkable unicellular ... More About: Great , Serendipity
Great Interview Week: Pour Some Sugar On Me
2008-02-27 00:00:00 I enjoyed my interview with Courtney a couple of weeks ago so much that I asked Neil at Citizen of the Month for another go at his Great Interview Experiment. Thus, late last week, I spent a fair bit of time in the role of either interviewer or interviewee. With ... More About: Sugar , Week
Great Interview Week: Iron Maiden Ruined Everything
2008-02-27 00:00:00 "When I was just a skinny lad on holiday by the sea, I met a girl in a Rancid shirt, and a tape she gave to me With the Black Flag First Four Years and the Minor Threat Discography, And punk rock saved my life." -Frank Turner - "Back In The Day" London based singer-songwriter ... More About: Great , Interview , Week , Iron Maiden , Iron
Great Interview Week: A Shooter Girl Goes to Paris
2008-02-27 00:00:00 I was thrilled when I drew Jennifer from No Place Like It for my second go at the Great Interview Experiment. Like your underwhelming correspondent, Jennifer is an expat (a Canadian in Paris ) dragged overseas in a net of romantic entanglement with a furriner. Like myself, she seems happy to ... More About: Girl , Week
MP3 of the Week - The Rosewood Thieves - ?Honey, Stay Awhile?
2008-02-25 00:00:00 Another Northeastern (U.S.) roots rock act caught my attention this week, I smell a scene up in the Hudson Valley. The Rosewood Thieves are a New York based quintet who released their second EP "Lonesome" in the Autumn. Their music strongly hearkens back to the 1960's with Mackenzie Vernacchio's organ ... More About: Honey , Week , Stay
Dreamer In My Dreams
2008-02-25 00:00:00 "Well there's a child on the way It could be any day But how this life will change him That we don't know Well there's a child on the way Gonna look just like him One day, he's gonna say "Ain't you my dad?" Then he's gonna look down and smile And after a while, he'll say, "That's for sure, ... More About: Dreams , Dreamer
Out On The Weekend In Oxford
2008-02-25 00:00:00 Since the decision to leave Oxford became final I've begun to appreciate just about everything about it - maybe barring the weather. In the three plus years that we've spent here I've been able to thoroughly explore this wonderful little city and there are a few places that have become ... More About: Weekend
Obama Wins the Expat Vote
2008-02-25 00:00:00 According to one of my favorite fairly reliable sources, Obama won 65% of the Democrats Abroad Global Primary (69% in the UK). It's a binding primary, folks, so chock up Obama's 11th straight win. More About: Vote , Wins , Expat
Alea iacta est.
2008-02-25 00:00:00 Dr. O'C pressed "Send" and there was an almost tangible change in the air of our living room - the die was cast for our Antipodean migration. We had just booked Timmins into an Australian dog jail beginning the first week of April. He has made some questionable decisions ...
Thanks for having me and my irresponsible child over to your house
2008-02-25 00:00:00 I've always thought that the best way to get a real sense of a place is to spend a lot of time with the natives. When those natives are family, you the traveler have got it made. Not only can you get nice home-cooked meals, a comfortable bed to sleep ... More About: House , Child
Vi er går till Sverige
2008-02-14 00:00:00 Things are likely to be a bit quiet here at chrisdellavedova.com for the next few days. The crew (excepting dog) are off across the North Sea today for a trip to the land of moose and Malmo, of socialism and Saabs. That's right, while most Britons are donning their sunglasses ... More About: Sverige
Whelmed?
2008-02-12 00:00:00 I've been making some changes to my template based on some suggestions in a recent review on Ask And Ye Shall Receive. I'd love any opinions regarding the changes (two sidebars down to one) as well as any further suggestions to make my site as elegant as possible - elegance, ...
Science Tuesday: Keepin? It In the Family
2008-02-12 00:00:00 "Your oldest brother was away at a home and you didn?t meet him 'til you was nineteen years old Old enough to know better, old enough to know better but you took to his jaw line and long sandy hair..." The Drive By Truckers - "The Deeper In" Geneticists love nothing more than a good ... More About: Science , Family , Tuesday , The Family
MP3 of the Week: Destroyer - ?Foam Hands?
2008-02-11 00:00:00 When I first heard of Destroyer I assumed, based on their name, that they were some sort of tongue-in-cheek 80's hair metal revival act - something like The Darkness. But as I listened to the 2006 record "Destroyer's Rubies" I quickly realized that I was dealing with a whole different ... More About: Hands , Week , Foam
Heave away, haul away
2008-02-11 00:00:00 "Haul away your rolling king Heave away, Haul away Haul away oh hear me sing We're bound for South Australia..." -The Pogues - "South Australia" Since we moved to Britain in the autumn of 2004 we've been trying to figure out where to go from here. Neither of us are British, so we have no ...
Godstow Nunnery
2008-02-10 00:00:00 The ruins of Godstow Abbey sit alongside the Thames just to the north and west of Oxford. It was built in 1139 for the Benedictine nuns and was in use for four centuries until King Henry VIII, in a fury over his excommunication by the Catholic Church, dissolved the order ...
10 Questions for an Evil Doer
2008-02-08 00:00:00 OK, maybe not entirely an accurate title but I'm working on my catchy tabloid-esque headlines. My blogging hero Nichole tipped me off to the The Great Interview Experiment over at Citizen of the Month. The idea, as I interpret is, is to get to know more of my fellow ... More About: Questions , Evil
What?s Swedish for ?scapegoat??
More articles from this author:2008-02-08 00:00:00 "Blame it on the Tetons. Yeah, I need a scapegoat now..." -Modest Mouse - "Blame It On the Tetons" As you may or may not know, Dr. O'Connell is not the only expatriate in her family. Her sister lives in Sweden with her husband and two boys. What follows is a recent textual ... More About: Swedish 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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