Archive for the “Nature” Category
Posted on Friday, July 25, 2008 | Filed under: Nature, Things That Suck
Tagged: city, local, poop, Purdue, shitty, stink, townie, wastewater, weather, west lafayette
“Our Feces.”
When the weather warmed up a few months ago cyclists, drivers, walkers, and shoppers near the Wabash Landing started to smell something that could only be described as “shitty”. Turns out the city’s wastewater treatment plant is right next to the shopping district, next to the community park, next to the pedestrian walking [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Nature, Domesticated, Nature
Tagged: worm massacre
Letting George out before bed last night I opened the screen door about a foot when it jammed against something. It was windy so I figured a stick had blown into the grooves. Being tired and lazy, I tried to force the screen further, shoving it and shoving it, but it wouldn’t give. [...]
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Posted on Monday, February 4, 2008 | Filed under: Celebrations, Local News, Nature, Vanity
Tagged: 21, birthday, car culture, celebration, danger, driving, family, fog, FUCK SUVs, liquor, snow
The Partner and I went out of town Sunday to help celebrate the 21st birthday of one of his sisters. This aspect of the trip I’ll gladly do again—townie bar hopping during a small snowstorm is always excellent, particularly the intoxicated walk home.
Today, however, was an extremely foggy day. The two-to-three inches of [...]
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Posted on Monday, August 27, 2007 | Filed under: Nature, Vanity
Tagged: insects, mosquitos suck, photographs
The Partner and I went away for the weekend. On Saturday a friend had a wonderful party that started with all of us on the back deck, in a circle, holding hands, listening to a woman sing a few pagan feminist folk songs. During this time, I acted as a full course meal [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 | Filed under: Academia, Amusing & Humorous, Local News, Nature, Noteworthy
Tagged: Domesticated, education, friends, George, Indiana, photographs, weather
Hailed (http://www.wlfi.com/dsp_story.cfm?storyid=31289) as the Blizzard of 2007, my cities got dumped with roughly 17 inches of snow.
At 11am yesterday, my university decided it wasn’t that bad, only a little bit bad, so they called a “snow recess” from noon Tuesday to noon today.
My only problem with this recess — okay, my second problem with this [...]
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