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July 2008

Let Us Eat Cake

July 30, 2008
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Well, there’s no doubt about it, times are tough for almost everyone. When it’s like that, it’s the little things that can make a big difference. Some of the happiest music every created was from the era of the Great Depression: Louis Armstrong, Nat “King” Cole, Fats Domino, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Coleman [...]

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A Touch of Heart

July 26, 2008

Two very good articles detailing the history and basics of dim sum are the About.com article, “Delicious Dim Sum – Chinese Brunch” and the Wikipedia “Dim Sum” entry. In a nutshell, dim sum are little snacks served with tea in the late morning through late lunchtime. Eating dim sum is very much a social occasion, [...]

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The Kopper Kitchen

July 23, 2008

two pies at Kopper Kitchen, freshly cooked and already mostly eaten at breakfast time Toddle House When I was a kid, a tradition on snowy nights in St. Louis, following an evening at the Fox Theater, was for my parents and I to stop for a late-night supper at a Toddle House. They were cozy [...]

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Before TV

July 18, 2008

By the light of stone-age campfires, our ancestors dramatized stories that spoke directly to the heart of their listeners about society’s deepest myths. Always, from those primeval origins, through the earliest recorded histories in China, India, and Greece, right up to the present day, live drama has always been more than entertainment (although it has [...]

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Silent Stories

July 16, 2008
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“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Ernest Hemingway wrote that to win a bet as the shortest story ever penned. It has spawned countless Internet contests for aspiring writers to create their own 6-word stories. There is another ultra-short literary form called flash fiction–short-shorts less than a 1,000 words. There are a number such creatures: [...]

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Tangelo’s Grille

July 12, 2008

Tangelo’s Grille (226 1st Ave. N., St Petersburg, FL 33701; 727-894-1695; fax 727-821-7027) is another spot a new friend delighted in sharing with me, which, in turn, I have delighted in sharing with others. It’s around the corner from Jannus Landing—an extremely popular and well-known St. Pete downtown rock concert venue. Next to Ticketmaster, it [...]

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The Land of Missed Sandwiches

July 9, 2008

How many times have we discovered, too late, that we had been in the presence of something which at the time it was available we ignored, dismissed, or just didn’t see but, now, we would love to experience, but cannot because circumstances have changed and that thing is no longer at hand? (This goes for [...]

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Independence Day

July 2, 2008
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Kona Sunset This is more of a Memorial Day, rather than an Independence Day, poem; but, in these times, it seems appropriate: For The Fallen (excerpt) They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and [...]

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Haslam’s Bookstore

July 2, 2008

I mentioned in an earlier post that too many Tampans—and I was one like this—think of St. Pete as simply what you have to drive across to get to the beach. Early in my days as a person like that, there was one exception for me: Haslam’s Book Store (2025 Central Ave., St Petersburg, FL [...]

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