May 28 – Jun 3, 2008
The Summer Preview: How to Do Summer in VT; Bike Clubs for All Pedal Persuasions; Seattle’s Favorite Sex-Advice Columnist Brings His Savage Tongue to Burlington
How music saved the month of May
On a Friday night in October, two years ago, I joined some friends at Koto for a birthday dinner. From there we headed to the OP for some birthday drinks. When my new friend Michelle decided to leave with some other friends she had just introduced me to, she came over to say goodbye. “We’re…
Green Mountain Daily goes to Denver
I was listening to VPR this morning on my way into work and heard Ross Sneyd interviewing John Odum of Green Mountain Daily. Odum usually blogs from Montpelier, but he’ll be posting from the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August. The DNC chose a blog from each state to cover the convention. Odum and…
More Onion-y Fun
I have, yet again, been saving up food-related articles from The Onion. Here are a few for your Friday evening reading pleasure: ~ Potential Employee Uprising Quelled with Free Pizza ~ Piggly Wiggly Scouting Report Indicates J.J. Hardy Enjoys Rib-Eye Steaks ~ Tomato Genetically Modified to be More Expensive ~ Nation’s Poorest 1% Now Controls…
College is HARD: The Complete First Season
Back in April, I posted the first episode of a web video series called “College is HARD” on Blurt. Actually, I now realize that it was the first part of the first episode. Turns out the Skidmore College students who made the video — inlcuding Burlington native Max Resnik — cut it into three parts…
eState Wrap-Up
This is my last post about the conference I went to yesterday, which I’ve been calling the eState Symposium, but which was actually called Fulfilling Vermont’s Potential as an e-State: Building Community in a ‘Connected Age'”. Try saying that five times fast. I just read Bill Simmon’s wrap-up post, and I agree with pretty much…
eState Wiki
The symposium is over. I’ll write a wrap-up post later. I’m beat. And I’m having coffee with my co-live-blogger, Bill, seen here. (caption: “Resistance is futile.”) The Snelling Center has created a wiki to record our action steps. Check it out.
eState Discussion Group 3
More live blogging from the eState Symposium. In our last small group session, we were supposed to come up with 5 words to be inscribed on a statue describing Vermont as an eState. I came up with four:ConnectedFree AwareUnited Our group had trouble deciding on five. We picked:libertyparticipation/leadershipcommunityinclusivityawarenessinnovation
eState Plenary
More live blogging from the eState Symposium. The afternoon plenary session features three Champlain College students who basically outlined the various ways they use the internet. Joel Pelletier: He described how he playsboard games online with his girlfriend, who’s in Massachusetts, how’s it’s important to have a shared social interaction when you’re far apart. He…
eState Discussion Groups
More live blogging from the eState Symposium: Small group discussions are a big part of this day-long conference on Vermont connectivity. We just finished our second session. There are 9 of us in my group. It’s a pretty diverse crowd. The youngest is in high school, the oldest is 76. We represent business, academia, the…
Coffeebird Flies at Dawn…
If you’re pals with Seven Days on myspace, then you’re familiar with Coffeebird. It’s a comic-of-sorts that appeared on a sticky note on the coffee machine one day. There were four installments that appeared in fairly rapid succession, but it’s been months since we’ve seen a new one. That is, until today…
eState Panel Discussion
More from the symposium, where I’m live blogging today. Just finished the panel discussion. A summary:
Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants
From the eState Symposium: Had a great discussion with my small group, which I’ll report on later. The panel is starting. But first I want to share an anecdote. I just ran into Champlain College professor Elaine Young, who said she doesn’t like the terms “digital natives” and “digital immigrants.” They were mentioned earlier in…
eState Keynote
More from the eState Symposium. Keynote speaker Lewis Feldstein is the president of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, but more importantly, he’s the author (with Robert Putnam) of Better Together: Restoring the American Community. The Alumni Auditorium is almost full for his speech, and there are people watching on streaming video from Manchester, Montpelier, Newport…
Flood Watch
Dear Mistress Maeve, Hardly a day goes by when we don’t hear of some natural disaster – tsunamis, cyclones and earthquakes. Well, I’m having a natural disaster of my own – a flood – every time I have sex. It seems that ever since I turned 30, I get so wet when aroused that I’m…
Jazz Hands!
Soundbites: Discover Jazz Festival, Mocean Worker, The Barika Ensemble, Mike Device
Scene@ The Big Bad Box Variety Show
Club Metronome, Burlington, Friday, May 23, 10 p.m.
Hall Marks
Art Review: Linda Durkee, Isaac Graham, Deborah Hillman and Sarah Milton, mixed-media collages and oil paintings. Artpath Gallery, Burlington. Through July.
Rebecca Drysdale, Time-Traveling Lesbian
One of my lady-loving friends just sent this to me on Facebook. “This is laugh-out-loud outrageous show that you must watch!” she says. “And becauseeach episode is under 5 minutes, you can fit it into your busylifestyle.” Must-watch, indeed. This is “Episode I: She hears the call.”
A Man’s Man
Seattle’s favorite sex-advice columnist brings his Savage tongue to Burlington
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again The day after police in Waterville, Maine, charged Connecticut visitor Darryl Copeland, 25, with assault, nine packets of heroin were found near where he was arrested. Suspecting Copeland had tossed the drugs, detectives waited until he returned for his court appearance a month later. While arresting him for the drug charge, they…
Free Will Astrology
Here’s the weekly astrological forecast for May 28 – June 4, 2008. What’s your sign, baby? They’re all here… ARIES (March 21-April 19): Ernest Hemingway said that his best work was a very short story consisting of six words: “For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.” Alan Moore’s brief masterpiece of fiction is, I think, just…
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Jericho-Underhill Open Studio Tour [SIV81]
5/25/08: Farm machinery sculptures, water-inspired jewelry, layered swaths of recycled fiber and marbled paper bowls – and that is just a sampling of the art you can find along one remote dirt road in Jericho. During Vermont Open Studio Weekend, artists across the state open their doors to the public. The Jericho-Underhill Open Studio Tour…
Burlington Telecom Meeting Report
No, it’s not an official Seven Days write-up. I was working while this meeting was going on. Not sure if one of the writers made it there. But Haik Bedrosian showed up, and posted this meeting round-up on BurlingtonPol. *Councilor Decelles spoke against keeping Al Jazeera on BurlingtonTelecom, citing veterans who live in Ward Seven.…
Pork-a-licious
For reasons that I may get into at another time, I spent the last week driving to, sojourning in, and then returning from Alabama. The trip was unexpected and wasn’t a vacation, so I did not go with a list of worthy restaurants to visit, nor did I pack a delightful array of healthy snacks…
Project Porchlight Launch
I wanted to follow up on my earlier Project Porchlight post with a more recent video. After swapping one million light bulbs inCanada, Project Porchlight launched last week in the States. 36,000 CFLs (compactfluorescent light bulbs) are headed into Vermont porches free of charge. You can still volunteer to help hand ’em out.
Mouse Wars
Episode I: The Rodent Menace Roughly a week ago, Seven Days office manager and Solid State blogger Bridget Burns gave me some homemade cookies to take home to my new apartment in downtown Burlington. When I got home, I left the cookies on top of my fridge, forgetting to put them away before…
On Academic Elitism
Graduation season just came and went. For recent graduates and their parents, that meant silly hats and free mini hot dogs. But college degrees, lest we forget, are also important political tools, not to mention bell weathers of class warfare, social inequality and other less-savory aspects of the American Dream. Jumping on the annual graduation-related-story…
With God on Our Side
Markos Kounalakis, president of The Washington Monthly magazine, has directed a short-film adaptation of Mark Twain’s “The War Prayer,” a searing indictment of the toxic mix of religion and patriotism, written in 1905. It’s definitely worth 14 minutes, 21 seconds of your time. The illustrations, by the animator Akis Dimitrakopoulos, are haunting. Actor/activist Peter Coyote…
Al Jazeera to Film Burlington Meeting
Hey, Burlington Telecom subscribers! This is your big chance to be on Al Jazeera! The Arab news network has hired a local film crew to record the public meeting tonight at City Hall, where two advisory boards discuss BT’s recent announcement that it will drop the channel from its cable lineup. Show up at Burlington…
