(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) For fans, Fruit Bats re-entry this year, both touring and on record, was something to behold (be sure to track down that tour EP they were hawking from earlier in the year). Today’s

... of you who don't know, there are two collections of my editorial cartoons: Code Red published in 2003 covers post 9-11, and the lead up to the election of George W. Bush. Diversions published in 2006, follows most of the Bush administration, the Iraq war, and Hurricane Katrina. Both are still available through Amazon. Click here and here. Thanks in advance if you decide to pick one up! -Ed

This was a weekend of cultural diversions and cultured women. Friday night I saw The Fantastic Mr Fox with CT and her friend from high school. The movie was spectacular and almost makes me want to have children so that I can force them to watch it when they are growing up. Which is probably pathetic, but, such a good movie. Wow. Saturday I went to the gym, the performing arts library to get some ...

... distributed among Facebook (the clear winner), Youtube, New York Times, Apple Store, or in my case, Blogger. However, a site with growing popularity is the Sporcle.Com. Described as "mentally stimulating diversions," Sporcle is chock full of addictive trivia games. Let's break down the phrase. Is it mentally stimulating? Yes. My personal favorite is "Can you name the Countries ...

Was up at the crack of dawn this morning, uncharacteristic for me on a Saturday. And it was to, get this: skip a chance to go eat biscuits & gravy and shoot skeet at Powder Creek. What on earth would possess me to skip that? I'd already RSVP'd for a small group bike ride when I was reminded the skeet shoot, or it might have gone the other way, actually, but we met at 8:00 a.m. at ...

A welcome and rather touching addition to the photo blog ranks is My Parents Were Awesome, profiled on NPR’s All Things Considered last week.  Eliot Glazer has compiled over 3,000 user-submitted images of parents and grandparents in their heyday, and the result is a lovely little tribute to eras past.  Definitely worth a browse. Posted in art, Childhood, History, Life, Mommy Issues, ...

Julejentenes Christmas Bazaar Whether you’re entertaining guests or being entertained on Thanksgiving day, stop in at the annual Julejentenes Christmas Bazaar at the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church (Minnekirken) at 2614 N. Kedzie Avenue on Saturday, November 21 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. to pick up Norwegian cookies and breads to wow your guests or your Thanksgiving

... in Canada are diverting some cargo away from Vancouver to U.S ports, as ripple effects spread from the strike by locomotive engineers against Canadian National Railway. “There are some diversions down into the States,” said Mark Erdman, senior manager for communications and government affairs at Port Metro Vancouver. The British Columbia port is North America’s largest in ...

Every day we ride the subway. I love the subway in Seoul (except when it's rush hour although there was that time, squeezed in like crazy, that Isaac was making me burst out laughing by giving me a quiet play-by-play on how "a businessman's bum" was "touching" his bum and that he was very uncomfortable about it). (He later demonstrated for me when we got home, saying, ...

A year ago, I posted some links to videos and/or whatever that helped divert my attention from the depressing task of writing and then grading final exams.  That page is still getting hits, but many of the links are broken.  It is time for an update.  Some of these links have some connection to business,

obama never considered diplomacy in afghanistan* 4 US troops killed in afghanistan* 'the surge: the untold story' - film offers gospel of surge* more troops to afghanistan, but what will they do?* 2 nato commanders wore nazi regalia in afghanistan* obama's new afghanistan plan may be much like old one* leaked docs reveal uk cover-up over iraq invasion* iraq inquiry: tony blair ' ...

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore.  Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding ...

... numerical modeling, coordinated with river channel diversions on the Mississippi Delta, we can begin to restore wetlands ... percent of the water to ensure that the section of the river below the diversions remained open to navigation. The model predicts ... expected to vanish throughout the delta between now and 2110. “Diversions are really the only cost-effective way of building land,” ...

... , was due to start on the 16th November, but there have been concerns as to how the necessary traffic diversions would effect the running of such a large acute Trust. In order to ... able to access these areas via the Derriford mini roundabout but will have to follow the diversions in place. This will add time to these journeys especially during peak times. There will ...

... solution would inherently impact on the character of water diversions that we have seen in the past and provide a new political landscape for Greens ... regional water planning and oppose continued diversions from one region of California to another. Greens running ... failure to end multi-billion dollar diversions without recognition of the needs of the regions impacted. Prioritization needs to be based ...