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At a Restaurant in Ashville

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The menu, a litany of updated regional classics such as black-eyed pea cakes, was relentlessly “improved” by garnishes such as avocados and Basmati rice. The joint’s “philosophy” — since all new restaurants must now publish a justifying manifesto along with their menu — centered on the now tedious homage to “local” “organic” produce and a

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Sunday Travels: Matera, Basilicata

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I have no idea how a theoretical physicist living in Sophia, Bulgaria came to follow my little blog. The polite thing to do when someone inexplicably follows is to– as WP asks me to do– is “check them out” (grammatically incorrect, WP). More often than not, I move on with my life. But sometimes… you

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Speaking of math

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I understand. We weren’t actually together speaking of math, but Rocky & I were, so… . 77 – 29 = 48. A 48 degree drop in temperature from yesterday afternoon to this morning. More layers! And speaking of math– I witnessed the most amazing thing yesterday at the SuperLu. (That’s the SuperValu grocery in town

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In Local News: Deer season is over– You know what that means!

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Welcome to Volume 92, Issue 05 of local news– where I endeavor to entertain you with all the news that’s fit to print here in the newspaper of record in my little county in rural Mississippi. Before we begin, an update on the ongoing and BIG news. The sheriff– having been indicted on 12 felony

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Sunday Travels: Walter Anderson’s Little Room

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As Missy is wont to do, I’ve began last Sunday’s Travels in the middle of things. So let’s back up. First– thanks to Daughter C! Not only were the photos taken by her when she & the J-Man visited the Walter Anderson Museum of Art, but also she kindly supplied me with a lot of

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12 Hours | Oxford | Remembering The Ironing Basket

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I left the World-Wide-Web to venture out into the real world. Twelve hours. Twelve measly hours and Van der Leun has three new posts. That’s on top of the three new ones I saw this morning which I barely had time to glance at before we left The Farm to make our way to the

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Sunday Travels: To the Walter Anderson Museum of Art

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In order to realize the beauty of man we must realize his connection to nature. Walter Inglis Anderson More coming soon– including The Little Room!

In Local News (1/18/18) | And believe you me, there’s news!

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The Biggest News happened after our little local weekly newspaper went to press. Part 1. Not only had the sheriff been transferred from the Lafayette County jail to the Lee County jail, but he pleaded not guilty and he finally made bail! It was set at $400,000 so he sat in jail for almost a

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Morning in North Mississippi

Gallery
  • Shot with my phone around 6:50am

Heh. Phone keeps asking me if I want to fix the lighting. NO. Why would I want to fix these? They are a true representation of what I saw.

Our Little Inn

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Begun last evening and finished this evening. Beginning December 17th with a trip through the dense frozen fog from The Farm to Tupelo, and ending tomorrow, December 24th with the last leg of our Holiday travels— northern Georgia back to The Farm— and not including side trips to Starkvegas, Town, and the DG in the

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College Towns

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I should have taken a photograph of the empty WalMart & WalMart Market but I did not. They were empty. College towns– and by that I mean towns that contain colleges and universities but not a whole lot else except support structure– are wonderful this time of the year. The students have left! Yay! We

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The Immovable Ladder

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The Old City in Jerusalem was as close as we got to Bethlehem a couple of years ago, so I’m revisiting some of the photographs I took. Recall, as part of Mr. Big Food’s invited Bar Hillel Lectures, Hebrew University treated us to a private tour of the Old City– just two grad students, the

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“King of the Golden River” & stuff

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All the while I was wasting so much time engrossed with Volume Eight of Our Wonder World, I had in the back of my brain something I’d read a long time ago. I could paraphrase it well enough, but that wasn’t good enough. And then…  “He welcomed the story as an old and dear friend.”

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Conditions

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My extensive research– going back to Webster’s Elementary-School Dictionary, 1925 edition– suggests that ‘patron’ and ‘customer’ are synonyms. But as the kids say, “Whatevs.” No homeless allowed. Though technically this sign could be interpreted as “No shoppers who do not purchase anything allowed,” right? There are an estimated 400 unsanctioned tent encampments in Seattle.  What, exactly,

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Pie

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I’ve just been informed that the pumpkin pie is not done. Ten more minutes or so. And then the crust for the cherry cheese pie will go into the oven. Have I mentioned Pie Brunch™? This is a truly excellent idea thunk up by some smart friends of ours.  As you know, copious amounts of

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Living fossil

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Species from the genus Horsetails. The only extant genus in the class Equisetopsida. Kingdom. Order. Phylum. Genus. Species. There are about 20 species in this genus. According to that infallible source, this species’ common name is Rough Horsetail. Equisetopsida reproduce not by seeds, but by spores. That’s correct. A seedless plant. A living fossil. There was

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