So Iām on my way home from a visit to Canada, which has withdrawn the penny from circulation. The smallest coin is now the nickel. To make up for this, if you pay for something in cash the round the final amount up or down to the nearest nickel. This is shown on the receipt. Good idea? Bad idea?
I just finished re-reading Don DeLilloās Underworld - been WAY too long since I last read it. A great novel both in the sense of being wonderfully well-written, and in the sense of theme and affect. It is THE great novel of the second half of the 20th Century. See Rachel Kushnerās appreciation.
Big structures of history and luminous private lives, nuclear fear and baseball ā¦ Don DeLilloās 1997 novel captures the US in the second half of the 20th century. The author of The Flamethrowers hails...
Star Trek Next Generation - Timeās Arrow
As I was taking this pictureāa public payphone recently unearthed during a Brooklyn renovationāan 8yr old girl walked by, pointed to it, and loudly asked her dad, with a voice full of absolute befuddlement: āwhat IS that thing??ā
I assume this is generally how they spent their time on ship between episodes!
BREAKING NEWS: Old people donāt like change.
It's not just the visual contrast that Wagoner finds bothersome. She is from one of many families in Keyser ā and throughout West Virginia ā that relied on the coal industry for generations. Her late father worked as a railway engineer for coal trains that used to run non-stop through Keyser.
Keyser in West Virginia represents a national shift in American energy production. And in a town that was defined by coal for generations, change can be difficult.
