by Rhiannon Paine | Jul 12, 2011 | Artists & the Arts, General, Speaking Out
It’s official: austerity is the new black. Yes, austerity is what you’ll be wearing for spring, unless you’re in the 1%, and Google Analytics tells me that only one of my readers falls into that category. Hey there, super-rich person! Looking for a good cause? Would...
by Rhiannon Paine | May 23, 2011 | General, Home Sweet Home, Just for Fun
“There is nothing like being hanged in a fortnight to concentrate the mind,” wrote Samuel Johnson. Or, as he might also have written, “There is nothing like having your house on a Historic Homes Tour to send you repeatedly to Home Depot.” On Sunday, May 15, about 450...
by Rhiannon Paine | Nov 28, 2010 | Artists & the Arts, General, Speaking Out
After watching the new Harry Potter movie this weekend, a friend asked me why Harry, Ron, and Hermione, while on the run from Snarly Bad Things, kept apparating — moving about magically — within the British Isles. All the Snarly Bad Things were UK-based,...
by Rhiannon Paine | Nov 19, 2010 | General, Speaking Out
That quotation fluttered into my mind as I read an article about TSA agents groping U.S. airline passengers, including a terrified three-year-old girl. What, I wondered, does TSA stand for? Tactile Searchers Association? Touchers & Strokers Anonymous? My...
by Rhiannon Paine | Nov 2, 2010 | General, Speaking Out
I’m about to go vote in today’s U.S. election and as usual I’m getting a bit weepy. And it’s not because, as I consider some of the candidates, I realize I’d rather vote for a dead weasel. It’s because I start thinking about Martin Luther King and the...
