South Jersey in the News

STRATFORD, NJ, USA  Not just local news, but WORLD NEWS. Not even ten miles from me, a local pooch has struck the big-time. That’s right, folks; we have done it! South Jersey has produced the WORLD’S ugliest dog!

Books, Travel, Politics, and The Old Patagonian Express

Stratford, NJ, USA  Just like writing on my website, when it comes to reading books, I go in spurts. It’s not uncommon for me to read 5 books in a month, and then not crack a book for a year.  That can be a good thing or a bad thing.  When I get on a roll, [...]

My quaint life

Friday, I decided it was time to try a new hobby.  Things had gotten a little bit slow here, chez Nana.  I am bored of Netflix, and I’m not particularly good at counted cross-stitch. So, I walked up to Rite Aid and splurged $3 on a book of crossword puzzles.  I am nearly finished with [...]

More comments than content!

Stratford, NJ, USA I haven’t posted that much in the past week.  Part of it might be laziness, but I really don’t have all that much to say anyway. Well, let me re-phrase that.  I haven’t come up with many ideas to write about.  Maryland Macaca, however, has.  I mean, she has come up with [...]

More local “news”

Stratford, NJ, USA  In my last post, I talked about how our local NBC affiliate wasted FAR too much time on a story about how one of its own reporters sought revenge on a guy who fondled her panties. Well, our ABC affiliate wasn’t about to be out-done!  The next day, Philadelphia’s 11pm newscast on 6ABC [...]

God Bless America! (Slow news day?)

Stratford, NJ, USA* I just thought it would be fun to get you caught up on a couple of the biggest local news stories of the day from a couple of cities I know pretty well. Washington, DC  In my former city of Washington, DC, the big story was that today was the first day [...]

Strange Maps

I found this blog earlier today, and it’s REALLY cool for anyone interested in political/human geography (ME!) and/or cartography (me, to a lesser extent).  Strange Maps.  Just thought I’d pass it along. 

Nana: Ever wonder what’s inside that house at the top of the page?

STRATFORD, NJ, USA  My grandmom’s house is pretty typical, notably in that it could use a good scrubbin’. It’s not really surprising; the longer you stay in one place, the more junk you accumulate.  Heck, I accumulated plenty of junk after just nine months in dorm rooms at college.  My grandmom has lived here for about [...]

Sports: York Revolution–at home in Camden (and life after Hershey)

Well, the Hershey Bears’ season ended last night with a loss.  I can hardly complain; two finals in two years is still pretty good.  Two years in a row, I got to see them play in June (I supposed it’s too late now for me to whine about the parking lot flood at the Giant [...]

An Inconvenient Truth, and labels in US politics

After months of completely ignoring my Netflix account, I finally watched An Inconvenient Truth the other day. A while ago, I wrote this post on the 2008 presidential race and global warming (yes, I should have made it two posts instead of awkwardly jamming two topics together). The movie didn’t do much to change my [...]