The Virginia State Fair and What I Ate There

Eric  30/09/09

Barbecue pork sandwich. With pork prepared, but not raised and butchered, by the Virginia Tech Block and Bridle Club.

Double coleslaw. They were out of beans at the VT BBQ tent so they offered up a second heap of coleslaw.

Chocolate milkshake. A thick shake from the VT tent.

Soft pretzel

Funnel cake

Twenty-ounce cup of Budweiser. We paid $6 for a twenty ounces of Budweiser before realizing that the 16-ounce cup was a better deal, per-ounce, at $4.00

Frozen banana. Frozen, dipped in chocolate and rolled in peanuts.

Motorbikes

franklin  29/09/09

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Some really nice bikes! See for yourself…

http://www.bikeexif.com/

Variations

franklin  28/09/09

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1. Amsterdam
2. New York
3. Klampenborg

Roger Tory Peterson

Eric  27/09/09

Roger Tory Peterson by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Peterson was just twenty-six when his first Field Guide to the Birds was published in 1934. A delightfully exhaustive guide with hundreds of illustrations and notes on voices, sizes, behaviors, and wing bars, eye stripes, and geographic ranges. Does it swim? Does it wade? Does it climb tress?

The titmice, the wrens, the thrushes, the nuthatches, the finches are bad enough, but when Mr. Peterson comes to helping me, or even my wife, with the warblers his efforts are indeed laughable. There are dozens of warblers, many of them barely visible to the naked eye. To distinguish them one from another is like trying to distinguish between two bits of dust dancing in a shaft of sunlight. – E.B. White

The pure products of America go crazy

Eric  18/09/09

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A great collection of readings by William Carlos Williams from the University of Pennsylvania (his alma mater) made between 1954 and 1962.

William Carlos Williams at Penn Sound

Moments

franklin  10/09/09

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1. Maison Martin Margiela
2. Acne / Bianchi
3. Todd Selby

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