This weekend I’m back home instead of being in Madison. I’ll be missing out on the festivities…oh well.
The city has hired a large number of personel from a private security firm and are really locking down on the Big Brother mentality with cameras. This year’s celebration precautions are a definite response to the increasingly violent [...]
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My “build a kotatsu project for under seventy dollars” is still active. I will construct one soon. A little bit of research I’ve done so far. Project Kotatsu Post #1 is still available for viewing.
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The Lunchroom rebellion
by Burkhard Bilger
The New Yorker, Sept, 2006
The lunch ladies of my elementary-school memories in Oklahoma are a stout, sweet-tempered breed. They wear cat’s-eye glasses and have beauty-shop perms, with hairnets drawn taut across their foreheads. They have gray uniforms and dishwater complexions, and stand in line dolloping out grayish food—boiled okra, spinach with [...]
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