Archive for February, 2007
Holiday edition: ebullience. Battle of the Santas. Inadequate Christmas in Iceland. Terrifying fishermen. Graffiti. Brown Jesus.
Wikipedia: tool for good or ill? Lady pirates and armed Irishmen. The pleasure of terror. Etymology of the balaclava.
Richard Burton and the Lake Region. Armchair travel. Definite articles and the initial “I.” The Dark Continent redux. Royal Dutch Shell. Meditation on quality.
The Alsace. European politics, the Turk, and royalty. Tale of an ice cream maker. Meat; sports logos. Noisomeness of attacking oil companies.
A long beginning: cheese. Steelhead trout. Ethnicity of panhandlers. Life cycle of the mosquito. Unsatisfactory aspects of Boston. Rock gods.



