Vox 2009-09-28T07:52:42Z judith http://judith.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c11412f739c408/ Appomattox tag:vox.com,2007-10-16:asset-6a00c11412f739c40800e398b3525b0005 2007-10-16T03:04:14Z 2009-09-28T07:52:42Z judith http://judith.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I saw Philip Glass' new opera Appomattox yesterday, thanks to some randomly great bartering for amazing orchestra seats. It is a powerful and shocking piece, and Glass puts the insistent unrelenting repetition that characterizes much of his music...

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]]> bottled water, oh noes! tag:vox.com,2007-08-11:asset-6a00c11412f739c40800e3989cc9ff0002 2007-08-11T23:54:36Z 2009-09-11T07:40:08Z judith http://judith.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Did the NY Times really think they required SEVEN reporters to do a Styles piece on how bottled water is environmentally unfriendly, or was that just a place to park the female journalists while assigning hard news stories to men?

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]]> how a $2.50 bone becomes a $2500 bone. tag:vox.com,2007-08-10:asset-6a00c11412f739c40800e3989c400f0001 2007-08-10T07:12:17Z 2007-08-10T16:46:05Z judith http://judith.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

the story of lyle's injury

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]]> clock of the long now tag:vox.com,2007-07-12:asset-6a00c11412f739c40800d4144db65f3c7f 2007-07-12T22:51:46Z 2007-08-09T04:44:47Z judith http://judith.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I spent a not-quite-iPhone-sized heap of money this morning on a portable consumer information device. My mother's mother's mother, Hedwig Greenstein Zubrow, was born in 1899 and married my great-grandfather Simon in 1919. At some point after h...

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]]> Misconceptions in Lyle's Universe tag:vox.com,2007-06-12:asset-6a00c11412f739c40800d4143c9a47685e 2007-06-12T14:55:26Z 2007-06-12T14:55:26Z judith http://judith.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom 1. One of these days, the neighbor's 5:30am newspaper delivery is going to turn violent, but they won't get us because they will be scared by my ferocious barking. You'll thank me then. 2. Even though I cannot catch a tennis ball thrown direct...

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]]> I need a crush. tag:vox.com,2007-05-22:asset-6a00c11412f739c40800cd972bccde4cd5 2007-05-22T03:06:47Z 2007-06-05T02:15:26Z judith http://judith.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom It doesn't have to be on a person (though if you know someone I might find crushworthy, you might mention it...). I'd settle for a project or a job or something to get excited about. I've got that treading water feeling, where things are fine an...

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]]> only *progressively* crazy! tag:vox.com,2007-03-14:asset-6a00c11412f739c40800cd971a1b304cd5 2007-03-14T05:19:56Z 2007-03-29T18:12:54Z judith http://judith.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom If you've ever discussed such things with me, you've probably heard me proclaim that "marathons are for crazy people!" and I have not changed my mind at all on that. Today, after I ran two laps at the track at Kezar, I said to my pal/trainer Shar...

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]]> Vox Hunt: Latest Read tag:vox.com,2007-02-23:asset-6a00c11412f739c40800d09e5739dbbe2b 2007-02-23T03:01:43Z 2007-02-23T03:01:43Z judith http://judith.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Shantaram

Book: Show us the latest book you bought, borrowed or received. I'm reading Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. It's a 944 page extravaganza based on the author's life story, which involves breaking out of prison in Australia, disappearing into...

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]]> oh the unfairness of it all... tag:vox.com,2007-02-20:asset-6a00c11412f739c40800d4141c57fb685e 2007-02-20T22:04:27Z 2007-02-21T05:12:47Z judith http://judith.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom I promise I won't ever start dogblogging, but if Lyle did post something right now it would say something about how he did not ask to be born into a world where a person dares eat cheese without sharing it with her dog.

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]]> another day, another flat tire tag:vox.com,2007-02-07:asset-6a00c11412f739c40800d09e5338fbbe2b 2007-02-07T07:21:43Z 2007-02-11T05:30:16Z judith http://judith.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom If you're keeping track, that's four in about six months. Whee! Today's was at 5:30, as I was coming home to pick up Lyle for our 6pm dog training class. I tried to fix it with the magic fix-a-flat stuff but no dice. So there we were at 5:40 wi...

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