The Newport Jazz Fest turns 50 this month.

On my way home from the bagel shop last night, I turned right at the corner of Louisenstrasse onto G?rlitzer. That corner is a gravitation point for anyone who wants to hang out but can’t afford to buy drinks at a bar. For 11 pm on a monday, it was a pretty lively albeit scruffy bunch. Mostly punks yelling at their dogs for behaving like dogs, mostly hammered. Amidst kids sitting to his left and his right on the sidewalk was the scruffiest dude I ever saw passed out and forgotten on the pavement. Directly before his face was a large pool of vomit–not a step-over-sized pool of vomit, rather a walk-a-big-circle-around-sized one. He had noodles for dinner, which is probably what did him in.

I resumed work on the Toast of the Century video.
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Be sure to go outside tonight and look up — the Perseids are peaking, man. One should be able to see a couple of meteors every minute under the right conditions. I love meaty showers.

Here is a little bit about cats with wings.

Where was this website all my life? Cooking by numbers lets you click on what foodstuffs you have on hand and then finds recipes for them. Joy! Deep fried baloney ala mode!

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Grades posted. See post below.

There you have it. I’ve turned in all the grades I have. So go online and check em out.
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