Oct 31 – Nov 6, 2007
Vermont’s Newest Think Tank – Public Assets Institute – Does the State’s Math Homework; At Shelburne Farms, a Food Writer Goes Whole Hog; Local Couple Get Creative – and Spooky – with Their Nuptials
Montreal, Make It a Double
Not every Vermont taxi company will accept a run to Montreal. You’ll have to ask them for their reasons, because I am so going. I probably catch a Montreal fare 5-10 times a year. Last week, bucking the odds, I went twice in an 18-hour period. Thursday evening at five o’clock I collected six buddies…
Charmed, I’m Sure
Reflecting on the last “Hackie” column, “A Beautiful Nose,” I thought about a recent exchange with a fellow cabbie at Muddy Waters. We were waiting on adjacent coffee lines when the guy caught my eye and said, “You’re a cabbie, right? Yeah, I used to drive cab in Boston, but I’m up here now working…
For Now, Stick With Flatbread…
The Vermont Department of Health just issued a press release warning consumers to avoid any Totino’s and Jeno’s frozen pizzas with pepperoni (including “Totino’s Party Supreme, Three Meat, Pepperoni, Classic Pepperoni, Pepperoni Trio, Party Combo and Combo; and Jeno’s Crisp & Tasty Supreme, Crisp & Tasty Pepperoni, and Crisp & Tasty Combo,”) as they may…
Food Poetry: Crazy About Her Shrimp (re-posted)
(I am reposting an earlier entry, but with changes — I excerpted the poem and linked to it instead of posting the whole thing.) When I was a very young yet voracious reader, my favorite passages in books were always the dinner scenes. Give me a crackling fire and a holiday feast to luxuriate in…
News Quirks
Curses, Foiled Again Hoping to avoid ground-level alarms, burglars decided to cut through a roof to enter a business in Des Moines, Iowa. Instead, they wound up on the sidewalk outside. “They forgot to take into account the overhang,” said Rich Bartlett, owner of Southside Tobacco & Liquor. The burglars apparently tried to cut a…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): A top official at the European Robotics Research Network predicts that humans will “be having sex with robots” sooner than anyone expected – probably within four years. I hope this little shocker will help motivate you to follow my astrological advice for the coming week, which is to flee in the…
Big Picture Politics
Vermont’s newest think tank – Public Assets Institute – does the state’s math homework
Weekly Dose
A Middlebury volunteer clinic quietly cares for the un- and underinsured – including migrant workers
