BDN: ‘Garden slugs prefer Budweiser over imported brands’

A slug slips into a pool of beer in Kathryn Olmstead’s garden. (Photo for the Bangor Daily News by Kathryn Olmstead.)

This is what happens when a University of Maine professor — my former adviser there and the editor who published my first story in Echoes magazine — retires. She experiments with beer. In her garden, with two fists clenching brown bottles of Bud, she slugs it down the garden patch.

One Story #150: ‘Tiger’ by Nalini Jones

I received my first issue of One Story this weekend, the magazine of only — you guessed it — one story. I was introduced to One Story by one of its readers, James Scott, when he months ago manned a table at a bookstore panel of local literary magazines. He urged me to subscribe, and, finally, I did. One Story makes no pains for cover art: Just the title and author. I understand they change the color of the cover sheet. The story inside is what matters.

It’s our 6th-month wedding anniversary. Aww.

This weekend is the sixth-month anniversary of being married to Elizabeth. We were married on Saturday, September 25, 2010, at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, surrounded by a small circle of family and friends.

Here are some wonderful photos of the wedding, taken by our unofficial official photographer, Allyson Fauver.

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Stanley and Elizabeth Dankoski. Photo by Allyson Fauver.

Jeremy, Joey, Kasia, Diane, Barb, Toni, Noah, Teresa, Tony

Our wooden rings

My lovely Elusia

Elizabeth makes her entrance.

Barb reads a selected piece.

Amy reads a selected piece.

Dave offers his own advice, and sings ‘When I’m 64’ by The Beatles.

Although late September, it was hot, in the 80s.

Becoming one!

Jan offers her advice on marriage.

Wyatt: “If you’re not having fun, you’re doing it wrong.”

Diane explains “namaste.”

I get verklempt as Sunada says how she has seen me grow in the 2 years that she’s known me.

My radiant Elusia.

Elizabeth reads the vows she has wonderfully written.

I read the vows that I had written.

Sealed with a kiss.

Mamusia recites a Polish poem we found online.

Cute!

Elusia and Kasia

Kasia and Mamusia, Elusia and Teresa, and I

Mamusia and I

Bridal bouquet

My sisters Teresa and Kasia and I

Kasia and I

Teresa and I

Wyatt and Amy, and Elizabeth and I

Sunada and David

Jenny takes a photo of us.

Elizabeth Taylor’s obit writer

The New York Times had that Elizabeth Taylor obit ready for so long that the writer of the piece actually died six years ago. No joke.

Not sure if this is true, but it IS likely. Yes, the media DO prepare obituaries well in advance of a famous or well-known person’s death. Just in case. Gotta be prepared.

Literally: Font faces

Literal typeface

From: Hey, You’ve Got Some Font on Your Face: Typefaces, Literally – The Atlantic

For you typophiles out there, Spanish design company Atipo created this series of posters as an homage to four typefaces: Helvetica Bold, Carousel Medium, Caslon Italic, and Clarendon Bold. Inspired by Erwin Orlaf’s Paradise Portraits — a haunting series of clownish painted faces— designers Raul Garcia Del Pomar and Ismael Gonzalez smeared black and white makeup on models’ faces.