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December 18, 2010

We do an internal culture Friday news email because we’re scattered to the 4 winds. We tell what’s on our minds. This week I included a NYTimes article about OpenTable

that I found interesting. I’m a HUGE 30k-ft business-view nerd. .....


November 22, 2010

Something big happened in 2010. It's the original kitchen table issue; the food that goes on that table. At homes and in restaurants everywhere, meals with mysterious origins are being replaced by food that has a direct to the dirt it came from pedigree. Economic handwringing, the prospect of the US population's girth expanding beyond our landmass, even...


November 20, 2010

Last week the culture crew gathered for 3 days of brainstorming, eating, and...a new england classic...candlepin bowling!

Let me confess. I have competition issues. And I'm not alone. So while it was truly just for fun, we all paid attention to the scores. Culture's resident emperor of curiosity, Will Fertman, tells me that no one has ever rolled...


October 30, 2010

I now knew that Hassie had murdered Wilhem.

I dusted Hassie’s daguerreotype on the mantle, contemplating the intense stare of her dark deepset eyes while I waited for Mark, my youngest son, to arrive for a Halloween visit.
Believing what I saw in last night’s fevered apparition, did I see the anger of a jilted woman in Hassie’s stare? I...


October 26, 2010

Open thread: post your most frightening, eerie cheese-related story, real or invented, and the best story will win a sack of tricks and cheese treats. 500 words or less.

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October 26, 2010

This is my tale, strange but true, of a hideous secret buried in bucolic hills.

My father inherited a farm directly from his mother’s great aunt. Hassie Otis was a spinster, whose likeness still sits as a daguerreotype on the farmhouse’s decaying mantle. Hassie must have been unhappy during the sitting—her face is turned away from the artist, but...