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Church Marquee

My mother’s posted “one”:http://www.thirdlayer.org/archives/000206.html or “two”:http://www.thirdlayer.org/archives/000207.html entries on a church near her that’s using its announcement board to be cute rather than tell people when church services are.
It’s apparently a geographically limited disease, because most of the churches we passed in rural New York and Vermont this week still use the announcment board to let [...]

If there was a better way to go then it would find me

We’re slowly making our weaving way back to the Washington, DC area — we decided to loop through Vermont, a state I’d never visited but the state where “all our coffee comes from”:http://www.greenmountaincoffee.com/. I wanted to drive through Montpelier, but I really expected to *drive through*. We ended staying almost four hours to poke around downtown and [...]

Ann Coulter and Pat Robertson

Ed Cone quotes Ann Coulter saying:
bq. It’s far preferable to fight them in the streets of Baghdad than in the streets of New York (where the residents would immediately surrender). [ "Ed Cone":http://radio.weblogs.com/0107946/2005/08/23.html#a4836 ]
Of course. We all know that New Yorkers are liberal, and liberal = coward, right? Or possibly French. So much for the bravery of [...]

On pulp

Speaking of Robert Jordan, there is the occasional person who expresses surprise that I, with an English degree and therefore supposed lover of capital-L Literature, would even admit to reading such trash. Or, for that matter, genuinely enjoy so-called bad movies. I tend to mumble something about having had enough of such things in College. [...]

Netflix, you try my patience.

Dear Netflix:
I got _Gangs of New York_ from Netflix the other day, but couldn’t finish watching it because the second disc was cracked.
I just received the replacement for the cracked disc, except it is disc one in the sleeve for disc two.
If it is not too much to ask, I would like to see [...]

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