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Monthly Archives: February 2006

Birdberg Blotter: Flying monkey?

Birdberg Blotter: Windowpane Pain

Birdberg Blotter: Intruders watch TV

Birdberg Blotter: Tea, plants taken

Birdberg Blotter: Cartoon videos pillaged

Birdberg Blotter: Audubon prints stolen

Birdberg Blotter: Pileated Police Log

NEWS ITEM (AP, more or less) — Recordings of the ivory-billed woodpecker’s distinctive calls have convinced doubting researchers that the large bird once thought extinct is still living in an Arkansas swamp, the Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. “We sent them some sounds this summer,” said John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell University

Lose Friends and Not Influence People

Here’s how. At least it works for me. When old friends e-mail you with the latest scare, tell them — no, prove to them — they’re full of baloney. E-mail panics and their close cousins e-chain letters usually come from folks who live out of town. Why e-mail in town? Actually, a lot of my [...]

Brokeback Storm or Ice Mountain

“Brokeback Mountain.” A Brick review. It’s a winner. It’s for mature audiences, mature as in for grown-ups who realize sadness exists as does love and passion. Mature as in people who love “story” and love characters developed in “story.” What I haven’t seen, though, is a professional review saying this: “Brokeback Mountain would be a [...]

Sticks and stones department

Last paragraph of Court Briefs of a recent edition of the