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For those regular devotees of the New York Times on the internet, you have surely delighted in Maria Kalman’s artistic renderings and musings over the past months as she explored all things America via her blog: http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com.
Reading her most recent entry on George Washington today (sample illustration below), I redoubled my reflections on what being [...]

Rarely does a band offer such a combination of wit, creative elitism, and fun on a studio album, but The Magnetic Heads have done just that.  The Magnetic Fields have never before come so close to the dreaded mainstream, an accident at best, though fortunate nonetheless.  Their latest studio effort, Distortion, is imminently listenable, marking [...]

I have a feeling I’m going to get along just fine in my newly adopted homeland.  Kenya is lovely, as are Kenyans. 

Since landing two nights ago, I have trudged around to multiple government ministries locating the required maps for our engineers and my upcoming population density assessment.  As bureaucratically inhibiting as the process has been, I [...]

What I imagine most weddings should be like: true celebrations of the Michael Jackson in all of us!
A Wedding Thriller: