The Lone Prairie Blog

I understand that terrain and topography have an impact on street layout, but on perfectly flat ground, the only reason to create winding streets that end up in cul-de-sacs and circles is pure hatred of humanity. Why else would someone create a thoroughfare that is by no means thorough nor fair, taking the time to locate the crow flying and shooting it? May the developers who design such streets spend eternity trying to deliver pizzas there. People joke about murders happenin

“If you’d show that to the HR guy who called you confusing, now I think he’d get it,” my friend told me as I read off the copy I was using for a brochure about my website. I had attempted to summarize what Lone Prairie Art Works is, which is no easy feat. Yes, one time I applied for a job and the guy looked at my resume and said “frankly I find you confusing” and I didn’t get the job but about half a year later he lost his job so what does he know. Probably a lot, to be hones

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas is a a must-see. Visitors are self-guided through the museum in a way that brings them through the assassination of JFK starting with broad time before the event, winnowing down to counting off the seconds. They learn about the political culture of the time and place, then begin zooming in on the day, the hour, the minute…until the moment of JFK’s assassination. After that, the museum devotes itself to the aftermath. Vis

People come to ND for a lot of reasons. Well, no they don’t. But if you were making a list of the few people who do vacation here, it...

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“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.” — Aristotle