Archive for June, 2010

Food Rules: Pollan for the pool

June 22, 2010
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
Food Rules: Pollan for the pool

Seriously, I have got to get this book back to the library. So in the interest of being allowed to check out new material again, I give you my cheap and easy review of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual. Cheap and easy is fitting here. As people who’ve read The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A...
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Community-sponsored argh-riculture

June 17, 2010
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
Community-sponsored argh-riculture

Photo credit: AMichiganMom So everyone’s talking about their CSAs, and their pea shoots and their garlic scapes and their new lettuce and their precious teeny-tiny radishes, and you know what? All y’all can shut it. That’s right, you with the beets: Shut.It. Don’t mind me, I’m just jealous. I haven’t gotten anything from my CSA yet. Nothing, that...
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Unlikely birthday greeting for Neil Patrick Harris

June 15, 2010
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
Unlikely birthday greeting for Neil Patrick Harris

(And Jesus goes up in flames.) A month or so ago, Neil Patrick Harris (@actuallynph) mentioned on Twitter that he’d like to own nph.com, but that it belongs to the Nazarene Publishing House. This stands out in my mind because (1) that’s a pretty conservative Christian group, (2) Harris is openly gay, and (3) collaboration...
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Who me, off the wagon?

June 13, 2010
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
Who me, off the wagon?

Photo credit: Papaija2008 Yeah, it’s been a while. The last week of school was packed with activities, but now we are done and it is summer vacation! For the uninitiated, this means I have about 4 weeks of happy activity and loving communication before I start responding to craigslist ads that read something like...
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Better living through sloth and bad language

June 4, 2010
By Two Hands and a Roadmap
Better living through sloth and bad language

Photo credit: ryry9379 The last few days have been rather relaxing around here. I’ve taken a few days off blogging since the Wordcount blogathon ended on Monday, and even then I cheated with some Memorial Day parade pictures. Now it’s the end of the school year, which means there are lots of events to attend....
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