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The long deflated night of the Hong Kong rubber duckie is over. Sayeth the Straits Times: Hong Kong on Tuesday joyfully welcomed the return of a giant inflatable rubber duck, which drew tens of thousands of visitors before it was abruptly deflated for maintenance for...

Snowball is an eight letter word

After last month’s haiku spree, I was intrigued to discover – via BoingBoing – the Chaterism, a form of constrained poetry thusly defined: Snowball (also called a Chaterism): A poem in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one...

Even giant inflatable ducks need a break

My mancrush favorite artist working the medium of inflatable ducks, Florentijn Hofman, has brought his giant inflatable duck to Hong Kong harbor, a place that is also special to me. Apparently many welcomed their new rubber duckie overlord. The 54 foot high duck...

Pop over to Clover for a popover

According to the Hobbits, second breakfast is the second most important meal of the day so when I found myself in Dewey Square one morning this week, it seemed only natural to get a food truck breakfast even though I had already eaten. I was tempted by Area...