Who needs Disneyworld? Apr 10, 2007
Before you've set foot through the turnstile, seek out the quinces and medlars growing next to the car park. If your fruit education stalled at the University of the Front Bit of the Supermarket, you might as well toss a coin to decide which one is which. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
A Brazilian from Pope Calixtus Dec 23, 2006
Male genitalia inspire raucous irreverent stuff, from a discussion of popes' bollocks ("When this world runs out of bollocks this world will run out of popes") to a strange story of some men who ate so many medlars that they "swelled in length along that member which we call Nature's plough-share, so that theirs became marvelously long, big, plump, fat, verdant and cockscombed in the antique style, so much so that they used them as girdles, wrapping them five or six times round their middles."... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
LETTERS TO HOME AND GARDEN Mar 19, 2006
" Perhaps most California senior residences are, but had he looked farther east into entities like the Quaker-run Kendal communities, he'd have found something of a different story. These are tastefully designed centers incorporating independent living, as well as various levels of medical care, which is something I didn't see mentioned at all in the Takarazuka description -- does this imply all one level of independence/competence or care at the Japanese community? It does seem odd that... (San Francisco Chronicle)
