Archive for the ‘Potatoes’ Category
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Here I am singing and playing a sean-nós rendition of Eamonn A' Chnuic. I recorded it especially for you today. And here's a transcription of the song. The second English translation is the accurate one. "Ned of the Hill" was Edmund O'Ryan, a roving outlaw of 18th-century Ireland.
Edmond O'Ryan, the ...
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
Norway has agreed to foot the bill for a "doomsday" vault to house seed specimens of food-producing crops. This is good to know. In the event of a cataclysm or major F-up that'd prevent the normal cultivation of food crops for a while, we'd be in trouble without a back-up. ...
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
It was a tongue-twister of a lunch on a drizzly late-spring afternoon in Remiza, a working-class neighborhood of Zagreb with winding alleys and hidden back roads. Josip and I had originally planned to leave on that day for Kućište with his brother-in-law Anton to begin ...
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Through some miracle of Sweet Providence, I have emerged from the bewildering commotion of Thanksgiving proceedings relatively unscathed. No emotional contusions were suffered, thankfully, although I was attacked variously by a frozen prawn, an industrial dish rack and, at a friendly game of poker with the gents from work, a ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
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