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Comment on United is untied. by kasia

kasia — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:19:07 +0000

Ew. Air travel always makes me feel like that! I hate having no control. I hope you made it to your destination and are feeling less crankypants!

Comment on ‘Twaseeo by Abbie

Abbie — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:57:10 +0000

It makes me think of Shawshank - you know, Say-wa-teneo in Mexico. Yes, I’m adding and re-arranging letters, but I can’t help it if my first impression is seriously dyslexic. (maybe it’s because they are written on Scrabble tiles…)

Nevermind that the city is actually spelled Zihuatanejo - that’s what I get for seeing the movie before reading the book.

Comment on Farmer’s daughter’s dilemma by Sonya

Sonya — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:34:13 +0000

Ry, you should definitely read Omnivore’s Dilemma. I’d like to know what you think of it.

I think you’re making the assumption that the fresh food that would be grown on a farm would then be processed and shipped out across the country. The Quad Cities are full of people, and close enough that both processing and shipping would be minimized.

On goes the master plan …

Comment on Farmer’s daughter’s dilemma by Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:10:28 +0000

I’m going to guess other ‘things’ that keeps us midwesterners in corn and beans and not much else are: climate, soil type, storage/processing facilities, and market. IMO, the places that mass produce the ‘fresh’ fruits and vegetables are all kinda sorta located close by a company that caters to those very fragile and specific food types.

On another note….Yes, do all you can to keep your farm. Whether you actually do some or any of the work, the Green farm should always be that. I hope my great great great great grand kids go by the stretch of land WE call “Grandma’s” (from 2 generations ago) and THEY call it “Grandma’s” too.

Comment on A question for the librarians by Erin M

Erin M — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:54:29 +0000

I believe it was the citation that screwed her - so to speak. I think it’s awesome btw - learn to share bitches

Comment on Farmer’s daughter’s dilemma by kasia

kasia — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:45:48 +0000

This is a lovely post. It made me think of the documentary “The Real Dirt on Farmer John”, have you seen it? I’m still working on Omnivore’s Dilemma myself.

Comment on Farmer’s daughter’s dilemma by sunday

sunday — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:18:11 +0000

First, that’s the best name collaboration ever.

Secondly, if we called it Wadscock farms, we could have the slogan be “PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH!”

Thirdly, we shouldn’t actually call it that, but if you’d move out to Iowa with us, that would be what it would take to tip the balances to actually going.

Chris can be in charge of guns, the farm will continue to be wifi, and we’ll fight censorship and the oppression of patrons everywhere.

Comment on A question for the librarians by A

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:54:33 +0000

It’s not common, but not unheard-of, either, and depends on local laws and how they’re enforced. The library has to have some recourse for books that don’t get returned, otherwise they’d be irresponsibly managing taxpayers’ property. Note that the young lady in WI didn’t just ignore an overdue notice, she ignored a COURT CITATION “issued after she failed to respond to letters and phone calls from the Grafton library.”

Comment on Farmer’s daughter’s dilemma by A

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:43:15 +0000

My heart aches when I think of the farm where my mother and grandfather both grew up, and where I spent the best parts of my childhood, and which was sold and demolished before I really understood that I could have saved it. And I think of it a lot.

So I have this gaping hole in my heart, and Chris wants to live in the country because that’s the only environment where I’ll allow him to have a gun, and so I’m thinking there might be some room for Wadsgreen-Maycock collaboration here. We could even call it… Wadscock.

Comment on A question for the librarians by Your mom

Your mom — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:13:48 +0000

I was told that years ago at the DeWitt Library the Board members would go to the houses of delinquent patrons and ask for the books they had check out and not returned.