for some reason
glen frey the cat not the rocker
has adopted a placemat
as his
best friend
and
constant companion
and they seem to be
very happy together.
who can account for what one sees in another?
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“your friend is your needs answered. “
-khalil gibran
two of the grandies
at a fun run
went many, many laps
to raise money
for their school
with snack breaks
from their dish of
marathon-friendly foods
donuts, dogs, n’ cheetos
with a
chaser of cider.
what could go wrong?
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“food should be fun.”
-thomas keller
WikiLeaks shows Clinton aide touting Lafayette coneys
Amid the excerpts from closed-door speeches by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to Wall Street executives and backroom discussions of political strategy comes a shout-out about a venerable Detroit restaurant.
It’s not every day that WikiLeaks reveals something as mundane as who ate where and what. But that’s just what emerged in the latest drop Friday of hacked emails from the anti-secrecy website that releases secret and classified information.
During a Michigan stop with Clinton in March that included Detroit and Flint, Clinton’s spokesman Nick Merrill offers his take on a local eatery in an email to campaign chairman John Podesta, which were hacked by WikiLeaks.
“On a personal note, I just had two Coney Island hot dogs at the famous Lafayette Coney Island next to the hotel. I highly recommend. Bring your defibrillator, or ask to borrow one from USSS (United States Secret Service),” he writes.
He’s not alone. Detroit coneys — Lafayette or next-door rival American Coney Island — which feature wieners with beanless chili sauce, onions and mustard, have drawn fans for decades. Some who leave the area or the state pine for them. Debate rages about the virtues of both.
Lafayette’s owner wasn’t available to bask in the attention, but other fans have weighed in in the past. “There’s only one hot dog stand in Detroit and that’s Lafayette Coney Island,” said a devoted fan in a Detroit News article.
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credits: konrad maziarz (photo), detroitnews.com
book club goes to the movies.
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“eat ice cream. read books. be happy.”
― carew papritz
“dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.”
-marsha norman
“sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump.”
-auguste rodin
the trojan room coffee pot – action shot
the trojan room coffee pot was a coffee machine located next to the old computer lab of the university of cambridge, england, which in 1991 provided the inspiration for the world’s first webcam.
to save people working in the building the disappointment of finding the coffee machine empty, after making the trip to the room, a camera was set up, providing a live picture of the coffee pot to all desktop computers on the office network. after the camera was connected to the internet, a few years later, the coffee pot gained international notoriety as a feature of the fledging world wide web, until it was retired in 2001.
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“a watched pot never boils…. but it does develop paranoia”
― josh stern
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credits: cambridge university
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credits: roald dahl, jose ruiz blanco (photo)
