Word: muskrats
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...First.” Though the girls are set to play as the Rod Stewart Tribute Band, the three Canaday residents have adopted the band name Captain and Captain and Captain and Tennille based on the American pop music duo made famous by chart-toppers like “Muskrat Love” and “Love Will Keep Us Together.” According to the band, “It came out of Anna buying three captain hats on Ebay and then making a multimedia piece based on the one-hit wonder.” Rounding...
...commitment, though I can’t speak to all of the details,” he said.The 820,000-square foot building is not expected to be completed until around 2010.FAR is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Services to restore Muskrat Marsh, as it is known, to its former glory by making it more diverse, with technical support from the Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management. Mass explained that the government is particularly involved in the project because the area affects the herring runs around it, which are vital for the well-being...
...strange when I tell you I’ve been making love with my girlfriend’s dog. But that is not my most unsettling secret.” He continues to tell us about the strange, singing little man who dresses up as a muskrat that is a result of their union. The plot thickens when this little man impregnates a woman who is living in an iron lung and helps spawn four talking puppies. The story ends when the narrator finds these four puppies and tells us that he has finally found a family. This surreal story...
...turns comix images into their most basic signifiers. After all, how much visual information do we need to know we are seeing a horse or car? And in Porcellino's case, it perfectly reflects the almost Zen quality of his writing. At the end of "Mountain Song" a muskrat (scarcely more than an oval with a line at the back) slips into a pond. Wordlessly, Porcellino then draws several panels of vaguely abstract images that could be either details of the pond or even increasingly distant images of the pond. The beauty is that both ideas are right...
...Steve Allen... Readers under 50 are drawing a blank here, unless they think of a mild-mannered gent with a muskrat toupee who was recently seen fulminating on the lack of standards in contemporary TV (We know, we know, the kids say - it's not nearly gross enough). Perhaps it is natural for every forerunner to become a fossil if he lives long enough. Allen didn't live quite long enough; he was just 78 when he died last Sunday, and was still producing books, songs and impudent opinions at an exhausting rate. But this longtime talker will be remembered...