Most radio can usually be categorised as either ‘talk based’, for example LBC, or be ‘music based’, like Virgin Radio, but all that is set to change as the dawn of the Digital Era has spawned a new style of radio broadcasting - there is now a digital station that broadcasts nothing but bird song! It

M. Night Shyamalan (along with Darren Aronofsky, Christopher Nolan, and Michel Gondry) is one of my favorite directors working today. After crashing into Hollywood with The Sixth Sense as “the next Hitchcock,” he continued to impress (me, at least) with Unbreakable, The Village, Signs, and Lady in the Water. For the general public, it seemed

Tags are keywords that readers attach to the books they’ve read.  Sometimes they are accurately descriptive of the plot of a book, and sometimes they are based more on personal experience. Tag mashes - the combination of two tags describing one book - are alternately useful and hilarious for just that reason. I use LibraryThing, an

Linn County Master Gardener Claire Smith describes how much water is enough  (obviously, many parts of Iowa have had too much this week) and other gardening hints:   We’re so excited:  my favorite daughter’s garden is growing by leaps and bounds.  We had no idea of the quality of soil in the area, but luckily she unknowingly

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I can hear two guys talking. I’m not sure if they’re outside or at a window. Either way, I can smell them smoking what definitely seems to be a spliff [cross-cultural explanation: joint, jazz cigarette, the wacky backy, mary jane, pot]. I briefly considered going out and seeing if I could buy some, but then

Da da-da-daaaahhh! Presenting, Noodles! :^) Just bathed, so still a bit wet, but a bit fluffy too :D. His feathers are falling–it’s springtime shedding, you know! — so he’s showin’ some skin ;^D Wearing a very thin little suit I made. This one was one of the early ones I made, so a bit scraggly; the subsequent

GOODNIGHT! Strix_

Here is Noodles in his eco-friendly hemp suit! I made these out of hemp shoe bags from ecolution! These suits are patterned with an open back (I’ll get a pic up soon). I designed this suit; my mother designed a suit which covers his back, and is nicer for chilly weather, though they are

I recieved my order of hemp-cotton fabrics and cotton threads from NearSea Naturals on Friday. They are just beautiful! I am very grateful they allowed me to order such small amounts — 1 yard each of three fabrics and some organic cotton thread. The feel is soft and appears to be very strong. I love