Thursday, February 12, 2004

Un Pez sin Agua "I feel like a fish without water." The small type under "sin agua" says "Francisco, 5 años, descridiendo el asma." It's a billboard at the corner of 7th and Brannan streets in San Francisco. Kate says she's seen English versions of it. It struck me just because of my problems with asthma. 10:59:13 PM    comment []

Happy 195th, Railsplitter And to mark the occasion of the 16th president's birthday, here's an offering from the Chicago Tribune on a reputedly ugly -- very ugly -- Lincoln memorial: "ASHMORE, Ill. -- It turns out the world's tallest statue of the tallest U.S. president, six stories of fiberglass and steel abandoned and vandalized in a shuttered campground, has another distinction. It is probably the world's ugliest memorial to Abraham Lincoln." A check of online maps shows Ashmore to be just down, or up, the road from Embarrass, sitting in the triangle of wonder outlined by Champaign, Decatur, and Terre Haute, Indiana (a lesser land of Lincoln). 1:33:52 PM    comment []

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