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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Ghostbusters (2016)
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
POTD: "No Frills Heaven"
From 2016 09 05 Halifax |
Bonus photo after the jump.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Parched (2015)
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Monday, November 14, 2016
POTD: "Got Drunk, Fell Down"
From 2016 09 05 Halifax |
Friday, November 11, 2016
POTD: Peggy's Point Light
From 2016 09 05 Halifax |
P.S. The tourist photo-bombing the lighthouse is the most photographed tourist in all our travels. Definitely. And picturesque herself.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Why She Lost
There's blame enough to go around. But you have to start with the candidate herself. Hillary Clinton was a historically unpopular candidate. Democrats lulled themselves with a comparison to the even more unpopular Donald Trump. They gambled that her unpopularity wouldn't matter. It did.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
POTD: Peggy's Cove
From 2016 09 05 Halifax |
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Sky Ladder (2016)
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Monday, November 7, 2016
Rod Dreher, Troll
Tomorrow is election day. So, let's give a little space to national politics. Or rather, to Rod Dreher's view of the election campaign. Or rather, to Dreher's postscript to his analysis. It earns him today's award for unintended irony.
Friday, November 4, 2016
OTBR: A Swamp in Estonia
Longitude: E 024° 45.342
A child on a road trip with his family asks, "Where are we?" and the father answers, "Let's check the map. We're off the blue roads [the Interstate Highways marked in blue on the road atlas]. We're off the red roads [the US and state highways]. We're off the black roads [the county highways]. I think we're off the map altogether." It was always my dream to be off the map altogether.
After the jump, a few of the random places (and I mean random literally) that I visited vicariously last month that are "off the blue roads".
Thursday, November 3, 2016
POTD: Died April 15, 1912
From 2016 09 05 Halifax |
Bonus photo after the jump.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
45 Years (2015)
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Repeat Tweets: Cornyn Blames Obama
Repeat tweets from October, 2016:
- Oct 1 2016: TX Senator John Cornyn blames Obama... "For the passage of a bill. That he told Congress not to pass. And vetoed." nola.com
- Oct 3 2016: Wells Fargo was engaging in fraud, but Ted Cruz and Pete Sessions were raking in the bank's campaign contributions. chron.com
- Oct 7 2016: North Dallas's own Katrina Pierson puts her foot in her mouth again. "So what? They're Muslim." Right Wing Talk
After the jump, more repeat tweets.
Monday, October 31, 2016
By the Bog of Cats at RHS
By the Bog of Cats at RHS: Euripides in an Irish bog. Challenging play for HS theatre: serious, adult, tragic. RHS pulled it off.
Support high school theatre, whether your kids attend or not. It's that good.
Support high school theatre, whether your kids attend or not. It's that good.
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Disney's Fantasia Live in Concert
Friday, October 28, 2016
POTD: Summer Colony for the Rich and Famous
From 2016 09 04 Bar Harbor |
And then there was us.By 1880, there were 30 hotels. Tourists were arriving by train and ferry to the Gilded Age resort that would rival Newport, Rhode Island. The rich and famous tried to outdo each other with entertaining and estates. A glimpse of their lifestyles was available from the Shore Path, a walkway skirting waterfront lawns. Yachting, garden parties, and carriage rides up Cadillac Mountain were popular diversions. Others enjoyed horse-racing. President William Howard Taft played golf. Bar Harbor become synonymous with elite wealth.
Source: Wikipedia excerpt.
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Dallas to Suburbs: Drop Dead, Still
Recently, we reviewed the attitude by many in the city of Dallas that there should be no cooperation between the city and the suburbs. Here's what we said:
What's changed in the meantime? Nothing.Regionalism is dead. It was killed over DART's desire to build both a downtown Dallas D2 line and a suburban Cotton Belt commuter train line...The sticking point is not D2. It's the Cotton Belt. The suburbs want it...The farther away from north Dallas you go, the greater the opposition to spending money on the Cotton Belt.
Source: The Wheel.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Marguerite (2015)
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
POTD: Druids of Eld
From 2016 09 04 Bar Harbor |
Today's photo-of-the-day is from Acadia National Park in Maine.
Evangeline This is the forest primeval.
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green,
indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean
Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.
Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Monday, October 24, 2016
Friday, October 21, 2016
Chemical Imbalance at BHS
Thursday, October 20, 2016
POTD: Cairn
From 2016 09 04 Bar Harbor |
Today's photo-of-the-day is of a rock cairn in Acadia National Park in Maine. Look closely for it. Human handiwork is no match for nature's majesty.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Difret (2014)
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
POTD: Beach View
From 2016 09 04 Bar Harbor |
Today's photo-of-the-day is a distant view of Sand Beach in Acadia National Park in Maine. "Sand Beach, in Acadia National Park, is nestled in a small inlet between the granite mountains and rocky shores of Mount Desert Island. This gorgeous 290 yard long beach is one of the most popular points of interest on the island."
Monday, October 17, 2016
Dallas to Suburbs: Drop Dead
Regionalism is dead. It was killed over DART's desire to build both a downtown Dallas D2 line and a suburban Cotton Belt commuter train line. DART included funding for some preliminary work on a second DART line (D2) line through downtown Dallas in its 2017 budget. It also included funding for some preliminary work on the Cotton Belt.
The latter became the casus belli for the mass transit war between Dallas and its suburbs to the north.
The latter became the casus belli for the mass transit war between Dallas and its suburbs to the north.
Friday, October 14, 2016
Review: Anne of Green Gables
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Matthew Cuthbert's father, as shy and silent as his son after him, had got as far away as he possibly could from his fellow men without actually retreating into the woods when he founded his homestead. Green Gables was built at the furthest edge of his cleared land and there it was to this day, barely visible from the main road along which all the other Avonlea houses were so sociably situated. Mrs. Rachel Lynde did not call living in such a place LIVING at all. 'It's just STAYING, that's what,' she said as she stepped along the deep-rutted, grassy lane bordered with wild rose bushes. 'It's no wonder Matthew and Marilla are both a little odd, living away back here by themselves. Trees aren't much company, though dear knows if they were there’d be enough of them. I'd ruther look at people. To be sure, they seem contented enough; but then, I suppose, they're used to it. A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said.'"
Did anyone raise his eyebrows when he saw my latest reading selection? Was it unexpected? There's a reason I chose "Anne of Green Gables." Actually, two reasons. And I'm glad I did.
After the jump, my review.
Thursday, October 13, 2016
POTD: The Old North Church
From 2016 09 02 Boston |
Today's photo-of-the-day is of a window in the Old North Church in Boston, famous for its role in the American Revolution. The church's story is told in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Paul Revere's Ride." Can you still recite the opening lines?
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."
Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
My Beautiful Broken Brain (2014)
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Tuesday, October 11, 2016
POTD: Apples, 9 For $2.00
From 2016 09 02 Boston |
Today's photo-of-the-day is from the Boston Public Market in late summer, when apples are on sale, 9 for $2.00; organic blueberries, $1.00 a pint; and strawberries, 3 pints for $2.00.
Monday, October 10, 2016
The Danish Girl (2015)
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Friday, October 7, 2016
POTD: ... and Rowboats
From 2016 09 02 Boston |
Today's photo-of-the-day was taken in downtown Boston, not far from the Sailboat, Yacht, and Paddlewheeler.
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