February 2010
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How was your day?
It was a great day — full of culinary jazz, reading, and watching my 8-year-old Canadian citizen boy sled for the second time in his life (yesterday being the first) on the snowy road in front of the house here in the American South. A very small and simple day with the enjoyments of little things.
And now playing my instrument to arrangements I...
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January 2010
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What intrests you most in life?
Well, myself of course. But, enough about you, let’s talk about me.
I am interested the most by what is in front of me at the moment — a mixture of what I have moved toward and what has moved toward me. I think it is more important to learn to be uninterested in most of the things that swirl about you.
Ask me anything
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Where did the name Tapwater Jackson come from?
Tapwater Jackson first appeared in a dialog written for a metaphysics seminar to complete a degree in philosophy. It has been downhill ever since. Mr. Jackson has also been a performer and composer on a record album released in 1984, a musical performer from 1983 to the present, and Contributing Editor for River Magazine from 1999...
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If you could live anywhere, where would it be?
A little closer to the bus line.
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Kitchen Tango
5.64 pounds of Italian sausage ground and put up, the week’s basic tomato sauce reducing, sourdough pain de ménage rising on the counter, and garlic ready for confit. I would make someone a hell of a housewife.
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Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison
“When Clare was in her early teens she and Donald built a platform in a clearing in the woods well behind our house to feed ravens and crows roadkill and extra fish. I did ask about this and Donald said, “Ravens and crows aren’t just ravens and crows.”
Image - Michael Pape
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“That is the American tragedy of the early 21st century: a vital and...”
– James Fallows
The Atlantic Jan/Feb 2010
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“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure...”
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
“Books may well be the only true magic.”
– Alice Hoffman (via kari-shma)
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“I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me...”
– Charlie Chaplin
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“Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the...”
– Mike Myers
Frankly, I Think They Outed You
eyetwitch:
Amazon recommendations suggest that they now believe I am a transvestite survivalist who makes cheese.
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Snow Panic G-String Update
We may get up to 6” of snow tonight, although we already got a couple of inches of designer fluff which, where I am from, wouldn’t even make you quit wearing your Birkenstocks. The miracle of meteorological forecasting earlier this week, resulted in the local road commission salting the road — starting on Wednesday for a Friday evening snow. Perhaps they were confused and...
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“Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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Selling Short a Humanistic Economist →
ANAND GIRIDHARADAS, New York Times
“The implication that his economics was uncaring might have disturbed Adam Smith, for he was hardly the man that many now think him to be.
While he believed that markets could channel self-interest into efficient aggregate outcomes, he argued that this was no excuse for selfishness: “When the happiness or misery of others depends in any respect upon our...
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“The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.”
– Gloria Leonard