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June 28, 2004
Total Eclipse of the Heart
We received an invitation in the mail a few weeks ago. The front of the invitation showed an awkward high school couple, circa 1984, posing stiffly for the camera at their high school prom. The caption over the picture read TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART.
The invitation explained that a couple of friends were celebrating significant birthdays, and a surprise party was being planned for them. The party was going to be an 80s prom complete with a dance and an electric punch bowl and a theme song.
An 80s prom is a high-concept party idea that yields massive benefits. You can get really elaborate with it if you like, but all you really need is a handful of willing participants and an iPod loaded up with songs by Prince and Bananarama.
We showed up with 40 of our closest friends on Saturday night, all of us in our very worst 80s fashions, and the evening pretty much took care of itself.
As you might imagine, the rest of the story is told in the photoblog.
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Here's a little secret nobody ever tells you about gardening: it's easy as hell.
. — June 21, 2003
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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.
— Frederick Douglass
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"Destinations" by Dorothea Tanning. |
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