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|A quick and easy ice cream using chocolate milk, or Yoo-hoo chocolate drink, with sweetened condensed milk, chocolate syrup, and a small tub of Cool Whip. It tastes remarkably similar to those Wendy's Frosty milk shakes we all love.
Chocolate "Frosty" Ice CreamI'm gonna tell you a secret. Like with iced tea, we Deep South Southerners never really stop eating ice cream. Even north Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama get a little bit of a winter most years, but except for a very few, and very temporary, winter cold flashes - that frankly exit just about as quickly as they showed up - the climate down here along the Gulf Coast is such that all of those frosty treats are pretty much a year round thing.
As far as homemade ice cream goes, I am, of course, like most everybody else, a huge fan of custard ice creams - I mean y'all know how I feel about custard anything right? But custard ice creams do take a little bit of advance planning, and with the newer freezer bucket types of ice cream makers, we can now get a decent ice cream going in no time, without fooling with all the ice and salt. Those makers cry out for the easy versions of ice cream using sweetened condensed milk, like this one.
Many of you are familiar with this ice cream in some variation already, but I thought it'd be a good time to bring it out with the upcoming holiday weekend. It's just a few ingredients, it's quick, easy and fun, and I like to call it "Frosty" ice cream because it really does taste like a homemade version of a Wendy's Frosty. The most wonderful thing about this recipe, is that once you process it in your ice cream freezer, you can either pour it right into a cup, stick in a spoon and a straw, and treat it just like one of those Frosty milkshakes we all love...
... or, you can freeze it until it hardens, and serve it like regular scoop ice cream as pictured at the top.
Some folks do also make this with Yoo-hoo chocolate drink and while my husband loves those, I don't, but... I do love chocolate milk and so does he, so chocolate milk wins out here. If you love Yoo-hoo just substitute it in an equal amount.
You will need your larger capacity ice cream maker and sweetened condensed milk for this recipe, not evaporated milk. You can also substitute lower fat products, but the texture will be more icy and less creamy. Unless I'm making this for a crowd, I usually split mine up into three batches, processing one at a time in my smaller 1-1/2 quart Cuisinart ice cream maker and just refrigerating the other batches for a couple of days, though you can also halve the recipe. If I'm making this more for the ice cream than the Frosty, I also like to add in a small box of instant chocolate pudding. It acts as a stabilizer and makes it creamier. Just whisk that into the milk.
Length of time will be dependent on your ice cream maker. Here's how to make it.
Recipe: Chocolate "Frosty" Style Ice Cream©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 2 hours 30 min | Yield: About 3 quarts
- 1 (14 ounce) can of sweetened condensed milk
- 1 (8 ounce) tub of whipped topping (like Cool Whip)
- 1/2 gallon of chocolate milk
- 1 cup of chocolate syrup (like Hershey's)
Combine the sweetened condensed milk and whipped topping until blended. Mix in the chocolate milk and syrup and add to the tub of a full size ice cream maker, freezing according to manufacturer's directions. Serve immediately in glasses as a frosty style milk shake, or transfer to a freezer safe container and freeze for several hours, or overnight, until firm, to serve as ice cream. Let rest on the counter for a few minutes to soften for scooping, if desired.
Cook's Notes: I use Borden's Dutch chocolate milk, Eagle brand sweetened condensed milk and Hershey's chocolate syrup. For a creamier textured ice cream, add in a small package of instant chocolate pudding. Can substitute lower fat products, however texture will be more icy. Substitute an equal amount of Yoo-hoo chocolate drink for the chocolate milk. Can use in smaller capacity ice cream makers, simply store leftovers in the refrigerator for the next batch, or halve recipe.
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Powerful truth is like powerful wind. Let's blow our minds again and again.
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Pamelor is a Thinkamancer and one of the Great Minds.
She is uncertain of the Great Minds' involvement in the conspiracy revolving around Parson Gotti.[1]
Side of Origin: Hoffspace
Age: 2,900 turns
The seaside city of Hoffspace, although now conquered, remains legendary. Its naval power was as feared as its quality of life was envied. Its mysterious and eponymous ruler The Hoff preached morale as a central pillar of a successful side. Consequently, the days in the capital were filled with recreation and the nights with revelry.
Lady Pamelor was popped in the Capital, and took to live their life like a red-breasted duck to water. Her party pranks involving Thinkamancy made her an instant darling of the side. Her attractive Signamancy didn't hurt, either.
The fall of Hoffspace to the Pittwater Council left Pamelor down and out in the Magic Kingdom. She has bounced back, though, becoming the youngest Thinkamancer to join the Great Minds. With her free-form Thinkamancy style, she impressed her peers. Her attempts to loosen them up and apply The Hoff's ideas about recreation, though, have been met with skepticism.
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The native New Zealand birds at Larnach Castle
As I walk through the auburn leaves dropping, face chilled by the autumn breeze, I think of the upcoming winter months as a gardener. The cool dark mornings, frosted ground, iced fingers and dormant trees, but yet a feeling of anticipation overwhelms me. The feeling you get when looking forward to an old friend or relatives' arrival. The feeling of a warm presence before, yes that's right, I did say warm! I am looking forward to the even closer encounters with the ever-present New Zealand native birds that flourish at Larnach Castle on the Otago Peninsula.
Now the plants are winding down for the winter, so is the nectar fodder for our liquid feeding friends. A large sugar feeder is placed in the kowhai for all to enjoy over these cold months. Bellbird, tui and wax-eye alike all gather to have a sweet treat. Visitors in disbelief of the sheer number of birds, often hear them before they are seen. "Is that a tape or CD" is a comment often said. The many native plantings at the Castle including kowhai, kaka beak, rimu, totara, miro, kahikatea and rata create a thriving environment for the native birds as these types of trees have been on the Otago Peninsula for millenia.
The swoop of the woodpigeons giant wings is enough to make anyone duck, only to realise they're in a nearby kowhai or tree-lucerne straining the spindly branched with their weight, happily munching away. A day never goes by without a feathered tale to tell. While buckling over with pain after giving myself a stick in the ribs by running into a tree stump (don't ask!), I noticed what at first glimpse looked like a fantail. I used what breath I had left to mumble to my work mate Sam (who had come running to my yell of pain), "Look at that beautiful fantail." But where's its tail? he replied. After gathering myself off the forest floor, we realised it was a tomtit! Its presence seems to instantly take the pain away. Lucky us, a rare sight to be seen!
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The Berenstain Bears and the Easter Story
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Sister Bear sure likes to celebrate holidays. With Thanksgiving, you get turkey and all the trimmings. Christmastime brings presents galore. And Valentine's Day—well, who wouldn't like to receive 23 valentines? Especially when some of them are sealed with a kiss! With visions of chocolate bunnies and jellybeans dancing in her head, it's no wonder why Sister can't wait for Easter and the Giant Beartown Easter Egg Hunt. Mama Bear worries though. Is the true meaning of Easter getting lost in the hunt? Or will the miracle of spring help Sister Bear find a whole new appreciation for the season?


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"Most seafood should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy."
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In 2005, the Lobster Trap restaurant opened its doors in historic downtown Asheville, N.C. Since then, it has become the seafood destination for locals and visitors whose passion for fresh Maine lobsters, domestic oysters, mussels, clams, crabs and fish (including the award winning Sunburst trout) is exceeded only by that of owner Amy Beard and General Manager/Executive Chef Mike McCarty.
The Lobster Trap is all about seafood. Don't look for chicken here. This is where fresh seafood is thoughtfully prepared in ways that honor its delicate flavors and textures. This is where fun, food and hospitality abound and where the oysters are always fresh. So come join Mike and Amy in a celebration of seafood. Raise a glass, crack a claw, shuck a shell, and lift a fork to the best that our domestic oceans, rivers and lakes have to offer.
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Night Flight: While the World Is Sleeping by Pamela Duncan Edwards
Come, little sleepyhead, come with me.
I have left my hill, high in the tree.
Oh, what wondrous things we will see.
While the world is sleeping.
A giant white owl invites a sleepy child to fly along on a dreamlike journey among the creatures of the night. The bright pajama-clad tot gladly opens her bedroom window and climbs aboard the owl's ample back and immediately finds herself in a midnight world where not all are sleeping, the world of nocturnal woodland creatures.
Silver fish are swimming past,
In the river running fast.
Will they reach the sea at last?
While the world is sleeping.
A bright-eyed fox is on the prowl.
He hopes to take a juicy fowl,
Until he hears the guard dog howl.
While the world is sleeping.
The entranced child watches baby rabbits at play, beavers at work on their dam, and a wise mouse mother warning her babies of the dangers all around while she soars on the downy owl's back through the night, until at last it is time to return to the sleeping world at home.
And soon the rooster's song will warm.
Dark is going, it is almost dawn.
The day is waiting to be born.
The world has finished sleeping.
Best-selling author Pamela Duncan Edwards' anti-lullaby is both dreamlike reverie and thrilling night adventure in her brand-new While The World Is Sleeping (Orchard Books, 2010). Duncan's simple lyric verse is artfully set forth by Daniel Kirk, (author/illustrator of the best-selling Library Mouse, Abrams, 2007) in lively but fantasy-inspired illustrations of the separate lives of creatures who, like the young child, are lovers of the night, while in his final painting we see the golden sun rising behind the chicken coop, the owl, with a farewell look, briefly perched on top, while in the foreground, the sleepy child rubs her eyes and seems to wonder if she has dreamed this sleep-time adventure. Pair this one with Susan Swanson's 2009 Caldecott Award book, The House in the Night,--and sweet dreams to all!
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BASTROP � The Boy Scouts of America are recruiting volunteers to help reforest a popular campground that was devastated by wildfire over Labor Day weekend in 2011.
Nearly half of the 5,000-acre Griffith League Scout Ranch was destroyed by the Bastrop County Complex, a monstrous wildfire that charred 32,400 acres, destroyed 1,660 homes and nearly consumed the Lost Pines Forest in Central Texas.
Now, the Scouts are joining forces with Texas A&M Forest Service to reforest the ranch with roughly 300,000 drought-hardy, loblolly pine seedlings over the next two years. The seedlings � 50,000 to be planted this year and 250,000 more next year � are being provided by the state forestry agency.
�When you take a look at the community as a whole, the Boy Scout Ranch has been there for a long time. It�s a part of the community. Generations of families have had children go through there,� Texas A&M Forest Service Central Texas Operations Department Head Jim Rooni said, noting that the ranch was the second-largest tract destroyed by the Bastrop wildfire.
�That acreage is probably as entwined in that community as Bastrop State Park in terms of peoples� attachment. One is public, one is private, but they mirror one another in importance.�
The Griffith League Scout Ranch is nestled on three square miles northeast of downtown Bastrop. Before the wildfire, the landscape was dotted with pine and hardwood trees and thick with yaupon.
But half the ranch � and half of its 20 miles of trails � were destroyed as the massive wildfire ripped through Bastrop, said Rick Denison, director of support services for the Capitol Area Boy Scouts.
�It�s just standing, dead timber,� Denison said, explaining that the forest now is virtually devoid of pines � the very trees for which it had come to be known. �All of the oaks are coming back from the roots and yaupon is already starting to take over. We could end up with a big yaupon forest.�
Scouts and scout leaders already have planted 9,000 of the 50,000 pine seedlings earmarked for the first year of the project. For now, Denison said, they are focusing on key spots around ponds and in riparian areas that are home to the endangered Houston toad.
Volunteers have the opportunity to help plant the remainder of the seedlings on three Saturdays this winter � Jan. 26 and Feb. 9 and 16. Denison said he hopes to get 2,000 to 4,000 trees in the ground on each volunteer work day.
�We�ve got a two-prong project: We want to save the habitat for the Houston toad, but at the same time restore the forest so it will be available for future generations to enjoy Scouting activities,� Denison said. �Any and all help is appreciated getting those pine trees in the ground. We�ve sort of got a blank canvas to restore.�
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Texas A&M International University's co-ed fraternity Alpha Psi
Lambda will proudly present its second annual benefit production of Eve
March 4 through Sunday, March 6 in the Center for the Fine and Performing
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The shows will be held in English Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March
5 at 8 p.m. and in Spanish Sunday, March 6 at 4 p.m.
Rolando Ramos, event coordinator, said the show is presented as part
of the V-Day 2005 College Campaign, a global movement designed to raise
money and awareness for organizations that work to stop violence (including
rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation, and sexual slavery)
against women and girls.
Ramos emphasized that contrary to the belief that the show is a lesbian
movement against men, it exists to stop violence against women.
"In light of what has been occurring in Laredo and Nuevo Laredo,
V-Day is an opportunity for the University and Laredo community to become
involved in what is being called a social movement that will ultimately
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CHANDLER, Ariz. (AP) — Tony Schumacher beat Morgan Lucas in the tire-smoking Top Fuel final at the NHRA Arizona Nationals on Sunday for his 70th career victory and fourth at Firebird International Raceway.
Schumacher and Lucas lost traction early and both drivers were on and off the throttle as they navigated the dragstrip, with Schumacher able to get his 8,000-horsepower dragster under control first.
Schumacher had a 4.606-second run at 213.20 mph, while Lucas finished in 4.652 at 258.67.
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Ron Capps topped the Funny Car field, and Erica Enders-Stevens won in Pro Stock.
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... tablets discovered in 1963 show that Dumuzi was in fact consigned to the Underworld himself, in order to secure Inanna's release,[3] though the recovered final line reveals that he is to revive for six months of each year (see below).
In cult practice, the dead Tammuz was widely mourned in the Ancient Near East. A Sumerian tablet from Nippur (Ni 4486) reads
"She can make the lament for you, my Dumuzid, the lament for you, the lament, the lamentation, reach the desert — she can make it reach the house Arali; she can make it reach Bad-tibira; she can make it reach Dul-šuba; she can make it reach the shepherding country, the sheepfold of Dumuzid
"O Dumuzid of the fair-spoken mouth, of the ever kind eyes," she sobs tearfully, "O you of the fair-spoken mouth, of the ever kind eyes," she sobs tearfully. "Lad, husband, lord, sweet as the date, [...] O Dumuzid!" she sobs, she sobs tearfully.[4]
First mentions of Isis date back to the Fifth dynasty of Egypt which is when the first literary inscriptions are found, but her cult became prominent late in Egyptian history, when it began to absorb the cults of many other goddesses. It eventually spread outside Egypt.
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Joshua Kahn Russell is an organizer with 350.org.
Last week nearly 1,000 people took over the Ohio Statehouse. Joined by others from neighboring states, they came together to protest the destructive gas drilling method called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." After rallying and marching to the Capitol building, hundreds poured in—without a permit—to hold a "People's Assembly" to decide how they, the people, could end the practice in their state.
Jamie Frederick was one of them. She had been told by doctors that it was safe to drink her well water, despite the gas wells surrounding her home. When she got sick, she was told to drink more water. She later discovered it was contaminated with chemicals used in the fracking process. As a result, she has lost her gall bladder and can't risk having children because of fatal health risks and potential birth defects.
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As the Assembly convened, the rotunda, filled to capacity, thundered with stomping, clapping, and chanting that was hushed when families shared experiences of being devastated by the side effects of fracking, as Frederick was. Some had been invited to testify at the Statehouse in the past, only to find empty rooms and legislators who, they felt, did not respect their concerns.
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ZusammenfassungVisual analytics is not an emerging topic anymore. Domain experts are increasingly convinced of the potential of visual analytics in the big data era as we move from basic to applied research in this area. We are working with users in several application fields, including medical doctors, climate researchers, business analysts and security analysts. In any of these domains, visual analytics solutions not only have to create user-, data- and task-centered visualizations: they use automated techniques and have to explain results to domain experts to allow a reasonable analytical discourse between human and visual analytics system. In this talk, I will discuss the intersection of visual analytics and user-centered design using several examples from applied research projects with domain experts. My talk will also cover current research topics in applied visual analytics taking a look forward to the role of visual analytics in these domains.
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We never understood why tourists went to go see the fish being thrown at the Pike Place Market until one day, when walking by, we saw an errant throw, which resulted in a fish hitting an unsuspecting passerby. All of a sudden we understood--now that's funny. Is there anything more rewarding than a little mischievous fun?
What's a trompe l'oeil? The phrase, French in origin, roughly translates to "trick of the eye"; it is often used to refer to a work of art rendered such that is tricks the viewer into believing it is something else.
In our case, the trompe l'oeil was not a painting but foodstuffs, created completely out of cake and sweets, made to resemble a fancy restaurant's menu, and served to a group of unsuspecting dinner guests. They came expecting a sumptuous dinner, which of course they got--but what they didn't know was that it was all comprised of cake, cookies and various sweets! Here's what we served and what they thought:
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** Fox's U-Bet Chocolate Syrup is used in New York.
Pour 1/2 inch of cold milk into a tall soda glass. Add seltzer or club soda to within 1 inch of the top of the glass; stir vigorously with a long spoon (this will cause it to become white and bubbly with a good head of foam).
Very gently pour 2 tablespoons of chocolate syrup slowly down the inside of the glass; briskly stir with a long spoon only at the bottom of the glass where the chocolate sits. The resulting drink should have a dark brown bottom and a 1-inch high pure white foam top (if you mix it too much, the foam disappears).
NOTE: Do not let Egg Cream sit for a long period of time-5 minutes or more; it will go flat.
Well-bread: Time for some carbohydrates!
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If you see shorebirds on a coastal beach in North America they are most likely Sanderlings (Calidris alba). If they are running back and forth as the waves ebb and flow they are almost assuredly Sanderlings. They are the "clockwork toy" birds according to Sibley, "The Bird That Plays Tag with the Waves" according to Pete Dunne, and The Shorebird Guide points out that Sanderlings are "probably the most widespread shorebird in the world." They appear on all the continents except Antarctica and migrate anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 miles from breeding grounds on the tundra to temperate and tropical beaches. They are far and away my favorite shorebird. I saw over 200 of them Sunday at Rockaway Beach and stuck around to watch and photograph them.
I was at the beach in the morning, enjoying the sun after a day of clouds and wind and rain. Rockaway Beach isn't really a birding hotspot, for good reason, with condos, apartment buildings, and an elevated subway visible from the beach, but some small patches of marginal scrubby habitat exist on the non-beach side of the boardwalk. I was hoping to find a host of sparrows, and did see some, but the Sanderlings definitely stole the show.
Not only are Sanderlings fun to watch they leave cool tracks too. Note the three-toed imprints left behind, the better for running.
The next time you are on the coast keep your eye out for the little birds running from the waves…and enjoy those Sanderlings!
(This post was first published back in October 2008, but these Sanderlings are too sweet to keep locked up in the archives!)
lovely photos corey
I saw a huge flock of sanderlings last weekend. I was at Jones Beach and from a distance I saw what looked like a dark patch of sand, but on closer examination it was a flock of birds.
I walked up to the flock to get a better look and it turned out to be at least 1000 sanderlings that were resting, probably seeking shelter from the strong winds that day.
Hi Cory, Incredibly beautiful shots of this fun bird. I really like the in flight captures you got, just gorgeous. I remember the Sanderlings from when I was a kid playing on the beach. Peterson describes them as the bird "that chases retreating waves like a wind up toy". Thanks for sharing the joy!
Yes, great photos Corey. The flight photos are great, especially the fourth where they're alighting and one has already begun to run, but it's the first photo that really draws my eye. The bird running, both feet just above the water — a moment that truly shows the character of the little bird.
Your in-flight photos are spectacular, Corey. It's always fun to watch these birds when walking on the beach.
Thanks for the id tip! Such fun, wish I see some!
Wonderful Photos. The early morning light is so clear! Love the in flight shots.
Great photos. Your post made me go back and compare the photos of Sanderlings I took last season out here in SE Queensland, Australia. They are not common around here.
The photos are incredible. And being terrible at shore birds, I especially appreciated your description of their behavior.
Awesome photos!! What lens were you shooting with? I especially love the one with the perfect shadow.
This past year I have really grown to love shorebirds (although we definitely have fewer in Illinois).
Fantastic photos, Corey. I especially love the two "on the wing" shots. And the footprints — I've definitely seen those before!
Thanks for sharing. Always a treat to see your photography on 10,000 Birds.
Beautiful! And thanks for all that info on them too. It's a wonderful post with all kinds of action shots of the sanderling.
Beautiful Photos! Thanks for Sharing!
I love these birds. I did a google search for funny birds running from waves and your blog was in the SERP – happy I found your work!
If I've fallen to my knees with tears of laughter from how fast their little legs are going, they are probably Sanderlings.
If I ever need a tribal name I'm taking that one "Bird that runs from waves".
Thanks for reposting this. I love the Sanderlings here on the Olympic Peninsula, and have tried over and over to get good photos of them as they race about, with no success. These are terrific!
That is so cool, I never thought that you guys had Sanderlings as well. They are my favourite bird when we go to the coast for holidays, however like Wendy I have had problems getting good photos of them.
As I write this I can see them running along the beach, down with the retreating waves and back up again with the next waves..legs moving so fast you can hardly see them!! Great photos Corey!
they are so cute to watch, i love watching them run away from the waves and run back when the waves retreat and get busy feasting with whatever is in the sand.
Thank you for the information on sanderlings! I'm on the beach at the Outer Banks, NC right now and my family and I have loved watching these cute little birds! I'll have to bring my proper camera out and take some nice photos of them.
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I was drawing pictures at the kitchen table of 51 Woodlawn Avenue East when news broke that JFK had been shot. If I hadn't been ill (and I doubt I was faking that day), I'd have been sitting in Sister Annette's Grade 1 class at Our Lady of Perpetual Help school.
That much, I know.
I think my mum had been ironing and was upstairs getting hangers when the bulletin interrupted programming on radio station CFRB. By the time she was back in the room, music had resumed and she briefly didn't believe me when I mentioned the news flash.
She became angry, thinking I must have conjured a spectacularly large little-boy lie. Then she was very apologetic.
I remember staring at a multicoloured push-button panel on the stove, trying to imagine the chaos in Dallas.
I mention this because it has long felt my real life began that Friday, even if I had nearly 79 months under my belt. I have clear memories going back to at least January 1960. Even a few favourite songs predated November 22, 1963, and the British Invasion that was just about to get started. Pre-Beatles favourites included Walk Right In by the Rooftop Singers and Hey Baby by Bruce Channel.
I'm sure this sense of life starting well into my seventh year is linked to a personal discovery in the days right after the assassination: I could pretty well read the newspaper and it felt liberating. For better or worse, my life's path might have been set.
Even as Kennedy-related stories subsided, other matters kept me hooked — Beatlemania, the Maple Leafs and construction of the Bloor-Danforth subway were the biggies in my world. We were a morning Globe and Mail household, but in following years, I encouraged my dad to look for an evening Telegram or Star on the streetcar after work.
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Through the late 1960s and early '70s, I found stories about unrest in American cities, the Vietnam war and Watergate gripping, but no more interesting than coverage of the Toronto Transit Commission, city hall and development battles here in Toronto — a booming, hopeful, exciting but insecure town that wasn't yet Canada's biggest. Subway construction was ongoing, skyscrapers were sprouting and nobody seemed to have any idea that the Maple Leafs would go decades without even reaching a Stanley Cup final.
I left high school and the family home at 17 and stumbled, luckily, into an office boy job at the Star. It was there that I would begin and — after tours at the Financial Post, Sun and The Globe and Mail — end a 35-plus year newspaper career, mostly as an editor. There was also a brief experiment with life in Peterborough, working at the Examiner, but it only made me realize I'm fully a Torontonian — something rather repulsive to many Canadians.
These days I'm freelance writing to pay the bills, while trying to relax, ride a bike, paddle a kayak, play guitar and make sense of this strange alliance — expertise and intransigent stupidity — that governs much of our lives.
I continue to follow transit matters closely via media, discussions with plugged-in people and official documents. I love reading old newspapers via the Toronto Public Library's website, as well as books on planning and land use.
I have no time for binary left-right politics. It's causing great damage at all levels.
I'm frivolous, too. I like music, beer and sunshine, and I've happily wasted a lot of my life in the vortex of spectator sports. It's been a long time since I've been able to cheer for the Leafs. I'm a baseball fan, and for years the Red Sox were my team, probably because their triple-A team was Toronto-based in my boyhood. I began cheering for the Blue Jays about the time Dave Stieb arrived (and his 37 should have been the franchise's first retired number).
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