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Monthly Archive for May, 2008
Book Review: Family Honor
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on May 29th, 2008
Book twenty-two in 52 books in 52 weeks
I wasn’t too excited with the last Robert B. Parker book I read. I had trouble with the hero of the story, he wasn’t as likable as his other hero, Spenser. Sunny Randall is the protagonist of this series, and she’s much more interesting, and easier […]
More of my favorite sites
Posted in interesting links on May 29th, 2008
Two more of my favorite sites that I obsessively hit refresh on my RSS reader to see if they’ve given me more to consume.
Anthony Bourdain is one of my favorite chefs, and I’ve never eaten at one of his restaurants. Where should I start? He wrote my favorite book on being a chef. […]
Lost in LaMancha. The director of two of my favorite movies, Brazil and Twelve Monkeys started to film a retelling of Don Quixote starring Johnny Depp. Shortly after filming began, financing started to fall through, audio was ruined by a NATO airbase, and flash floods destroyed many of the films sets. Then […]
Playing Outside
Posted in Brother, Holbrook Family, photo a day on May 27th, 2008
Cooper was playing at our house, and it wasn’t too hot outside so they played outside while we did some gardening.
Links 5/26/08
Posted in asides, interesting links on May 26th, 2008
Five things humans no longer need
Somebody was telling me how difficult it would be to scan all the photos they had, well I found this place that will do a box of 1,600 4×6’s for about $100.
This American Life had one of the simplest, most amazing explanations of how we got stuck n this sub-prime […]
Book Review - The Film Club: A Memoir
Posted in 52 books in 52 weeks, books on May 23rd, 2008
Book twenty-one in 52 books in 52 weeks
In this memoir, a former film critic and novelist David Gilmour, makes the decision to allow his teenage son, Jesse, to leave school in the tenth grade as long as he promises to watch nd discuss three movies a week with his father. Jesse is quickly doing worse […]
Grandma Holbrook’s funeral
Posted in Britnie, Brother, Holbrook Family, Sister, photos on May 22nd, 2008
Not many good shots at the funeral, I was wrangling kids and kept forgetting I had my camera with me. I’m not really happy with any of them, but here are the shots I dislike the least. See all of them here.
How about those shoes for the funeral? We were driving […]
Sunday at Mom and Dads
Posted in Britnie, Brother, Johnsen Family, Sister, photos on May 20th, 2008
Sunday we celebrated birthdays for Britnie, Brooke, Alison and my Dad. I just left the camera on black and white for the day to play around with it. Click through for the larger sizes.
Links 5/18/08
Posted in asides, interesting links on May 20th, 2008
The food an American family throws away every month
Water balloon exploding at 1000 frames per second (video)
Obama sets a record for Presidential primaries with 75,000 people showing up in Portland, a pretty amazing photo of the event at Whatever.
Animated graffiti
How to lie to authority figures
Amy Walker says the same sentence in 21 different accents (video)
Real […]