http://realfake.org/blog the tao that can be blogged is not the eternal tao Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:33:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This McSweeney's bit is an instant classic. Polonius says Hamlet's crazy ... crazy in love! Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Hamlet are now friends. Hamlet wonders if he should continue to exist. Or not. http://realfake.org/blog/2008/08/07/hamlet-as-facebook-feed/ I honestly got too distracted with the new toy this evening to post a full update of the rest of the weekend goodness at Summit Springs. So, while I have few words, I do have some video. John and Sonya's tomatoes are first, awesome (we were lucky enough to come home ... http://realfake.org/blog/2008/08/04/more-from-summit-springs-farm/ So it turns out that my iPhone did come last week, it's just been sitting in the FedEx facility in South Boston. I'm typing this on the Wordpress app from a train somewhere under Cambridge. Trying to get used to this keyboard... It's very odd. I feel a little "Jane! Get ... http://realfake.org/blog/2008/08/04/new-toy-is-here/ Terri and I are up in Poland, Maine, with our gracious hosts at Summit Springs Farm. Everybody else has gone to bed hours ago, but I have not quite been able to get to sleep. Everyone else is beat, not just because some of us are a) farmers b) got ... http://realfake.org/blog/2008/08/03/greetings-from-the-way-life-should-be/ I love this kind of the way I love the "Here is my 300 square foot apartment" type showrooms at Ikea. http://realfake.org/blog/2008/07/31/the-simple-life/ I'm sorry to see the Manny of up until 3 weeks ago go. I'm not sorry to see the jackass of the last couple of weeks go. [if you care about these things, you must watch Eck bitching about Manny] Still, I wish it hadn't come to this. There's going to be ... http://realfake.org/blog/2008/07/31/manny-being-manny-part-dos/ I can't decide if Christopher Hitchens' article in Vanity Fair in which he willingly submits to being waterboarded in order to help him decide if it's torture or not qualifies him to be considered like one of those spunky courageous first-person journalists of yore like Orwell or if it's just ... http://realfake.org/blog/2008/07/22/hitchens-gets-waterboarded/ Saw this in Harvard Square station the other day, and, call me crazy, thought it was odd that an airline's ad would compare their airplane to a roller coaster. http://realfake.org/blog/2008/07/22/airtran-roller-coaster/ The Good Soldier Schweik— I bought a copy at a used bookstore on our recent trip to Virginia/DC, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's sort of a World War I classic that's fallen off the radar about a Czech soldier who's basically an idiot who not so stupidly manages to avoid ... http://realfake.org/blog/2008/07/19/recent-reading/ So, NESN is playing a "Manny being Manny" marathon. Currently, they're playing the big 2005 game against the Twins on the day of the trade deadline. This is probably one of my all-time favorite Sox games. Manny was supposedly going to be traded in some complex 3-team deal, and was ... http://realfake.org/blog/2008/07/18/manny-being-manny/