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Archive for July, 2004
July 31, 2004 at 9:35 pm · Filed under On the Radar
I’m a married man now. My bride is the always radiant Robin Ciordia. We got married at the Mecklenburg County Old Courthouse. It was quite simple, and true to form had the Ciordia humor front and center. During the ceremony the Magistrate pronounced my name Ricardo. I said, Richard, but she did it again, Ricardo, no, excuse me, Richard. Oh, it has ‘Ricardo’ right here and spins the paperwork out to me. Well I’ll be, it does say “RichardO”. With that matter behind us the ceremony went off wonderfully giving our parents a nice show. Leaky faucets were abound. Of course after the ceremony when I was talking with the Magistrate on if I should follow up on the typo, my dad leans over and says, “It’s really Retardo.” Don’t let anyone say a Ciordia has no humor.
July 24, 2004 at 8:57 pm · Filed under Skull Sessions
Ooooh it could be a deep one. I’m going to throw this link out to those who like to read. The author, John Zerzan, of the article Running on Emptiness, the failure of symbolic thought ties together a lot of historical philosophical points and languange/cultural/artistic anthropology views to make the case that we’ve become trapped in symbology. That once we grew into a role of dominating the land, when we began to culture, and be cultured, we ended up shutting down that which made us truly alive.
It is an interesting point of view. I’m always up for a good jaunt out of the box. Thanks to Brian, for that one.
-a
July 19, 2004 at 7:39 pm · Filed under Video Games
You’ve got to give the industry credit..well a little? Ok so Grand Theft Auto’s idea has been out of the box now a number of years, but people are still playing catchup. Spiderman is no different. This game is a poor vision of what it could be, but it has enough entertaining qualities to make it a weekend rental.
July 19, 2004 at 7:35 pm · Filed under In my Kitchen
The review.
July 19, 2004 at 7:14 pm · Filed under On the Radar
Ode to a bourguignon….
A realm, for whatever reason, I have not ventured into is beef sauces. I’ve been in a merry affair with a blond roux or simple white wine sauce that rich beefy sauces were too much trouble, I thought.. I have been put to shame. Tonight we made a Beef Bourguignon.
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