http://upsidedownhippo.com/ en-us davidb1224@mac.com 2009-11-08T19:59:53-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/11/08/photographic_evidence/index.html When we last left our heroes, I was telling you about the opening of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine. To my utter delight (and a little bit of mortification because I used my trademark irreverent tone to describe... 1239@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-11-08T19:59:53-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/11/01/the_crypto_keeper/index.html Oh, you thought that just because I am neck deep in graduate school that I would not be bringing you the latest in Bizarro Living? Today, I went to the grand opening of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.... 1238@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-11-01T23:07:09-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/10/18/my_point_and_i_do_have_one/index.html I just realized I haven’t written in my blog in about two and a half months, which is a lifetime for a world that clamors for my every pearl of wisdom. I suppose we are all fortunate that such a... 1237@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-10-18T22:46:30-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/08/04/sarah_palin_has_a_bright_future/index.html Last night, while watching a TiVoed episode of “The Colony,” I realized I have absolutely no survival skills. “The Colony” is a reality television show about how a prescreened panel of overachievers copes with the end of the world by... 1236@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-08-04T12:00:58-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/07/30/over_and_over_again/index.html A couple of weeks ago, an arts festival in my neighborhood produced Dionne Warwick out of thin air. I wandered down to witness the beginning of her performance—which was akin to witnessing a grave robbery—and caught a rendition of “Walk... 1235@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-07-30T23:47:48-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/06/30/say_cheese/index.html I wonder if I even know how to write anymore. Well, the previous sentence answers some portion of that question: my fingers still work. I was having a rough time of things, but now, except for some extensively unanswered questions,... 1234@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-06-30T19:36:25-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/06/24/travel_journal_washington_state_part_two/index.html I haven’t felt like writing in a while, which signifies several things in myself but also means that I left you hanging in middle of a story. We had just seen Person Seven. Person Five posited that it was some... 1233@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-06-24T11:32:11-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/06/08/travel_journal_washington_state_part_one/index.html According to the walrus, the time has come to talk of many things. I don’t know what that walrus is doing in here, nor what precisely he happens to know about one thing or another, but in this case he... 1232@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-06-08T13:58:38-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/05/29/friday_chupacabra_blogging/index.html You know those moments when something you absolutely didn’t intend to happen has indeed happened, and it’s over, and you’re just sitting there absorbing that, and you just KNOW, down into your core, that you can’t move a muscle, because... 1231@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-05-29T11:20:45-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/05/23/travel_journal_rome_day_seven/index.html DAY SEVEN We were, or at least I was, still determined to get to the Vatican museum, and this was our last day to attempt that journey. My previous visit to Rome, my ex and I had saved that attraction... 1230@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-05-23T15:39:39-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/05/16/travel_journal_rome_day_six/index.html DAY SIX We could not go to Rome without seeing the Forum and the Palatine. There are a few different fora in Rome because Julius Caesar and his heirs kept building new ones and rebuilding the old ones. All of... 1229@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-05-16T11:04:28-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/05/11/travel_journal_rome_day_five/index.html DAY FIVE We had intended to go to the Vatican museum on Tuesday, but we got a later start thanks to the previous night’s ministrations of Friar Whiskey. Instead, we walked over to the Quirinal toward Piazza Barberini, where we... 1228@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-05-11T09:40:11-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/05/10/travel_journal_rome_days_three_and_four/index.html DAY THREE Walk walk walk: that’s what we did on Sunday. That morning, we swooped down past the Coliseum again, this time turning away from the Corso and heading out past the Circus Maximus to the plaza of the Boca... 1227@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-05-10T09:09:07-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/05/04/travel_journal_rome_days_one_and_two/index.html DAY ONE Tell someone that in mere moments you are going to drag him to an unspecified extra-national location, restrict his movement by stuffing him into a cramped chair for many hours, introduce sleep deprivation, then enforce miles-long marches that... 1226@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-05-04T04:11:20-05:00 http://upsidedownhippo.com/archives/2009/04/26/a_girl_in_a_painting/index.html I forget where it was: Amsterdam or Haarlem, someplace Dutchish or Hollandese. Or San Francisco. Anyway, I was in an art museum, looking at all the pretty pictures, when I was taken aback by a painting of a group of... 1225@http://upsidedownhippo.com/ 2009-04-26T12:51:46-05:00