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Big Country Little Car Tour, Day 7
March 30, 2010 – 3:30 PM | 62 Comments
Big Country Little Car Tour, Day 7

I had about a half dozen different days in one on Monday, starting off at the National Civil Rights Museum. I’d forgotten Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, and the museum is on …

Big Country Little Car Tour, Day 6
March 29, 2010 – 7:14 AM | 30 Comments
Big Country Little Car Tour, Day 6

Maybe it’s not always like that at Graceland. Maybe it was the chilly weather, maybe it was everyone buried in the audio tour and not talking much — I’ve never visited before, so I can’t …

Big Country Little Car Tour: Day 2
March 25, 2010 – 10:47 PM | 25 Comments
Big Country Little Car Tour: Day 2

I spent most of the day on interstates. I’d rather take blue highways all around, but in this part of the trip, I don’t have time.

I did get to take the Bourbon Trail for an …

Big Country Little Car Tour: Day 1
March 24, 2010 – 6:50 AM | 28 Comments
Big Country Little Car Tour: Day 1

It’s a big country. I have a little car. It’s Big Country Little Car Tour 2010.

Why?Well, why not? I like to drive, I have a thing in Murfreesboro on Friday, I haven’t seen AB Chao …

The Vacationing: July 2009 Edition
July 26, 2009 – 9:53 PM | 22 Comments
The Vacationing: July 2009 Edition

Typhus, the Brooklyn Dodgers of Flatbush, lesser Kennedys, seminal animé (say that five times fast), Argentine nutbars, and cod on the Cape — plus the N Cereal AA and the fall contest.These stories and more, …

Support Local Biz: July 9, 2009
July 9, 2009 – 9:58 AM | 16 Comments

A few administrative notes before Lobster Roll Tour 2009 commences on Saturday…
As you may have deduced from the previous sentence, I’m going on vacation for a couple of weeks.   I may have internet access; …

Yahoooooo-ooo-ooooo!
May 8, 2009 – 2:39 PM | 24 Comments

Thanks to all your donations in the TN Contest ’08, I got to meet Jerry Yang of Yahoo! yesterday.   Pictured: Jerry and I try to act natural while plotting world domination.
A big thank-you to …

Tomato Nation Goes To Washington: The Video
April 7, 2009 – 11:27 PM | 22 Comments

Yes, that guy really did yell, “C’mon, ketchup!”
Thanks to Mr. S for another fine effort in the footage-and-editing department — and of course to all of you for your extraordinary accomplishment.

DC Trip: Pix!
March 16, 2009 – 2:50 PM | 22 Comments
DC Trip: Pix!

The TN Flickr group is here; you can also see a more complete catalog — including my utterly graceless carousel dismount, and a few snaps in which I look 1) drunk and 2) about to …

Capitomato
March 15, 2009 – 1:17 AM | 17 Comments
Capitomato

Full update shortly, but here’s one to hold you (photo compliments of reader M.E.B.).   This is me in the No Child Left Behind hut in front of the Department of Education:

Thanks so much to …