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NY Times: Does forgotten Haiti provide an example of what we can expect for Afganistan and Iraq in the long term? 
First New Thing of 2004
Not being hung New Year’s Day has advantages. A bagle, 30% butter fat cream cheese and artichoke heart salad for lunch, french restaurant dinnerware, damask linen. I’ve had two already. How many until I would kill myself through tangy goodness overload? Cream cheese is one of those things that we have to be forgiving with ourselves about. This 30% butter fat is care of the Baltic Deli – I’ve never seen a higher percentage. I think that’s called butter.
Later: photo reduced due to outcry by the hungover. What the hung see.
audio project: taxi music.
Inside My Dome
One of Canada’s great remaining Victorian spaces
I work right under the great dome of the Kingston City Hall. This morning I looked up.
New Reads?
For 2004, I know I need some new blogs to read. Right now my reads generally and quite happily fall into these categories:
- People I have met or know people I have met;
- People who are yapping about blogs and how they are the future and will have us all eating food from tubes someday undefined but surely soon;
- People with a connection to Kingston, Atlantic Canada or Scotland;
- People who have linked to me;
- People talking about food and drink.
I know I do not want to read blogs mainly about my job – law – as the lawyers who write blogs mainly about law tend to be the lawyers you drift away from at gatherings of lawyers. I do not want to read blogs about US politics as they have that thick veneer about “liberal” and “right” that defies either comprehension or perhaps only extra-territorial translation. Are there gems out there based on other themes? I am really pleased how Switching to Glide has begun to develop from an idea – are there other music based group blogs, for example?
And how do you find new reading?
The Maritimes are where you make them: even Winnipeg.