• London

    AA Website Wonders Why It Sits Home On A Friday Night

    November 12, 2010 - By 

    Because the Christian Science Monitor is not that into it, frankly. I’ve visited AA.com a number of times recently, and here we are at the gate waiting to board the London flight. In coach, because I didnt have elite mileage status (and being a travel agent is actually negative status mojo these days). I agree that AA.com is ugly, hard to navigate, and nearly impossible to use. And I also agree that RyanAir has them beat for ugly, diffuculty of use, and likelihood that it’ll time out while you’re reading terms and accepting policies. Ugh. On the other hand, WE’RE…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Why #SGU Is Worth Watching And Worth Renewing

    November 9, 2010 - By 

    It’s compelling drama, and the stories aren’t neatly tied up with a bow at the end of the hour. You really should be watching it if you like character-driven stories, that develop in surprising ways, that aren’t telegraphed in the first ten minutes. SGU follows a band of soldiers, scientists and civilians, who must fend for themselves as they are forced through a Stargate when their hidden base comes under attack. The desperate survivors emerge aboard an ancient ship, which is locked on an unknown course and unable to return to Earth. Faced with meeting the most basic needs of…

  • Music

    Folk Music In The Suburbs Is A Two-Way Street

    November 9, 2010 - By 

    A coffeehouse named Two-Way Street in Downers Grove, that is. My husband David and I went there more than 10 years ago to see a folk performer named David Roth, we really could have been going all this time. Funny how time gets away from you. Down a hallway and short flight of stairs, in a basement room of Downers Grove’s First Congregational Church, it’s not unusual to find a standing-room-only crowd on a Friday night.Not much has changed in the four decades folkies have gathered to draw bows across fiddles, strum guitars and pluck banjos, transforming the church basement…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: November 5th – November 7th

    November 7, 2010 - By 

    Wildlife Photographer of the Year London Drum ~~ Big City Guide to London Cenotaph war memorial in London — for the Remembrance Day Parade Remembrance Sunday – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Slow Travel United Kingdom – London in November, visiting in the off season, theatre tickets Prim Perfect Opting Out of Full Body Image Scanning at the Airport – UCSF Faculty Concerned Over X-Rays – 100x Stronger Than Assumed? « San Francisco Citizen

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2010-11-07

    November 7, 2010 - By 

    I just used #Shazam to discover Sound Of Sunshine by Michael Franti & Spearhead. http://shz.am/t52727585 # Power out at my office. Party in the lobby. # All systems are go. # Voting after work. # RT @tweetcongress "Take your picture at the polls today and tweet it to us. TweetCongress staff will pick our favorite…" # Most excellent! Trying not to expect musical welcome extravaganza at Heathrow, did you see that vid? More contact info later. Cheers! # RT @JC_Christian "Silver lining rt @BarbinMD @joanwalsh 25 Blue Dogs have lost, 4 from the progressive caucus" There *is* some comfort. #…

  • Episcopal - Notty Problems: Even Leaving Doesn't Solve Them - Only in Utah... - Religion

    New Episcopal Bishop Of Utah Will Try To Solve The Notty Problem

    November 6, 2010 - By 

    I’ve met Bishop Scott at various meetings here in the Chicago area, and I think he’ll be a great “pastor to the pastors” and leader of the Utah Episcopalians. Video of the consecration service will be at the Diocese of Utah website. The first time the Rev. Scott Hayashi served Utah’s Episcopal Church, he was puzzled by some parishioners’ tendency to define themselves by what they weren’t:  Mormons. He even remembers pointing out the silliness in a sermon at Ogden’s Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, where he was rector from 1989 to 1998. “I asked, ‘Does this mean if…