12.30.2006/09:21
Many moons
Blue moon and other moons.

12.29.2006/11:19
Antedeluvian
"In order to avoid offending religious fundamentalists, our National Park Service is under orders to suspend its belief in geology."

12.28.2006/20:42
The Fifties
See if you can get rid of all the stuff that doesn't belong in a 1950s Living Room.

12.28.2006/19:18

Rail Cars Behind Sugar Mill
Cajun Sugar Cooperative near New Iberia, LA.

12.27.2006/23:26

Venus de Pollard
Holiday diorama on Pollard Street in New Iberia, LA.

12.27.2006/16:28

Strange Old Birds
A group of American White Pelicans set off on their day's activities from their current roost at Spanish Lake near New Iberia, LA.

12.26.2006/18:52
Smells great!
"Weekly tests of treated sewage sent into the sound from the West Point treatment plant in Magnolia showed cinnamon, vanilla and artificial vanilla levels rose between Nov. 14 and Dec. 9, with the biggest spike right after Thanksgiving."

12.26.2006/12:58
Eat the Whole Thing
Five restaurants within a new Whole Foods Market.

12.22.2006/16:55
Gone but not forgotten
Tower Records, R.I.P.

12.21.2006/19:30
Big fella
"The fossil bones of what may have been Europe's largest animal ever, a new type of dinosaur, have been discovered in Spain."

12.20.2006/16:24
Sob, sob, sob
Oh, the misery. Shopsin's is closed.

12.20.2006/11:40
Great idea!
Free MetroCards!

12.19.2006/16:59
1 Across
"While it is uncertain if similar results would occur with mental exercise done at home, other research has shown that intellectual tasks such as crossword puzzles and reading can help keep the brain sharp as people grow old."

12.19.2006/09:51
Transit that is truly public
Why New York works.

12.19.2006/09:19
Upscale upchuck
Whale vomit in the news.

12.18.2006/10:52
Liquid fuel
As the great Neville Marcano once suggested, put your faith in the coal mine.

12.18.2006/09:48
One Trick Pony
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
onetrickpony.com
(You can only get it to do one thing!)

12.18.2006/09:44

Fire and Water 2006
Le Feu et l'Eau second annual celebration, Dec. 15, 2006, in Arnaudville, LA.

12.12.2006/09:59
Llama mama
"She is not sure why it took so long for parade officials to let the llamas into the parade but suggested it might have been fear of the unknown."

12.12.2006/09:07
Stolen Jesus
"It's supposed to be a season of giving, but it looks like it's a season of taking to me."

12.12.2006/09:02
Sexy sea creature
What Conan hath wrought: Horny Manatee.com

12.11.2006/22:13
Cleaning up
I cleaned up my office closet over the weekend and I think my next big initiative is going to be ridding my desk drawer of the dozens of pens and pencils it holds (many non-working). But I have to work up to it.

12.11.2006/11:36
This is a gas
"Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow."

12.11.2006/09:27
Next?
"He got encouragement everywhere he went in New Hampshire. He drew 1,500 Democrats to a state Democratic Party fundraiser and several hundred more at a book signing in Portsmouth. Organizers of both events had to turn away many others."

12.11.2006/09:11
New folks
"In the latest twist to the demographic transformation of New Orleans since it was swamped by Hurricane Katrina last year, hundreds of babies are being born to Latino immigrant workers, both legal and illegal, who flocked to the city to toil on its reconstruction."

12.5.2006/18:35
Roadside Mary
"The stump was to be moved to a nearby church, but a group of business owners of Mexican heritage from New Jersey and New York raised money for a permanent shrine, which has a devoted following of Mexican and Polish immigrants."

12.2.2006/09:47
TV heaven
The "other" TV listings I was using were "improved," and luckily I found Zap2It. My, what I have been missing all this time!

12.1.2006/17:31
Media circus
In the narrow span of time between when cable TV was hot and the Internet was yet not (meaning that the only way to have a media frenzy was in real time), there was Baby Jessica.