Archive for June, 2006

Filed Under (Art) by Sarah on June-29-2006

denial of st. peter

Title: The Denial of St. Peter
Artist: Gerrit van Honthorst
Date: c.1623
Medium: Oil on canvas



Filed Under (Stark Raving Mad) by Sarah on June-26-2006

So, buying a shot of rhogam at the drugstore costs $120 dollars, while having one administered at the North Okaloosa maternity ward costs well over $800? Does this sound…oh… evil to anyone else? I don’t even want to know how much their flimsy paper gowns cost. I really don’t.



Filed Under (Art) by Sarah on June-25-2006

Migrant Mother

Title: Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
Artist: Dorothea Lange
Date: 1936
Medium: gelatin silver print



Filed Under (Theology, Culture) by Sarah on June-19-2006

The deputy editor of Slate magazine, a lax Jew, grows terrifically bored during a bat mitzvah and opens the Torah at random, reads the story of the rape of Dinah and then decides to read the Bible for the first time and blog his experience.



Filed Under (Trivial, Home and Hearth) by Sarah on June-19-2006

So I was just on the frontstoop to water the pot of Stargazer Lillies. I turned on the hose and it jumped and leaped around like a wild snake and soaked me, just like happens in cartoons. Bizarre.