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The other day I finally checked out a farmer’s market that’s started up nearby, and brought back (of all things) a hardcover of Les Misérables from the local Friends of the Library booth. (Yes, I got food too. No, not from the library.)...
Happy World Emoji Day! 🎉 It’s celebrated on 17th July because that’s the date shown on the calendar emoji. 📅 To mark the occasion, a fun one: lots of people are certain they remember a seahorse emoji. They can describe it in...
A key aspect of my work involves addressing participation. Economic, cultural, community, civic and sports participation. In that context, P is for participation. It’s in the policy documents, the strategy papers, the funding...
My purpose, and my belief, is that the bombs that killed and maimed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki shall one day open the skies to man. —Freeman Dyson, A Space Traveler’s Manifesto, 1958The nuclear pulse rocket is what you’d get if you hired...
How did we reinvent the holiday without its hallmark fireworks and in scorching heat? The post Bastille Day, Reinvented — Heatwave Edition first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.
Grapes, Gum, Orange Blossom, BacchusI've done my best to ascertain why they named it "Silver Scent," and all I can come up with is it was created (not released—created—before you 'at' me) in 2005, the Jacques Bogart brand's 30th...
StarringTatiana Maslany, Jake Johnson, Dolly de Leon, Jessy Hodges, and Jon Michael HillOverviewCam Boys. Blackmail. Divorce. Soccer practice.A newly divorced mom falls down a dangerous rabbit hole of blackmail, murder, and youth...
I went to another Cars and Coffee recently. I’ve been shooting my beloved Pentax ME preparing to write a fresh review of it — the one that exists dates to 2011! It’s aged off Google, and I’ve learned so much in the last 15 years that I...
Bright and breezy, Pretty Woman the Musical is bolstered by a terrific Australian cast, working at the height of the powers on this final leg of the Australian tour. As far as movie-to-musical adaptations go, 1990 film Pretty Woman is...
Comically evil monocled crown prince Roy D’Arcy (The Last Warning) and his more traditionally evil-rich-guy cousin John Gilbert (star of The Big Parade the same year) are both charmed by traveling performer Mae Murray and compete to get...
Out on an errand run, I grabbed this shot of an orange dot of a sun trying to burn through the smoke and haze blowing through the US from Canadian wildfires. Forgot to grab my mask as I headed out for the short trip, so traveling from...
I recently had a good time at a sea music festival. I’ve listened to a variety of nautical music on YouTube and Tidal, and even seen the Longest Johns play at a bar, but I’d never been to a festival like this before, and I didn’t know...
In my head, they say “Wassad” or possibly “Wazzad”.
Today at Crucial Tracks: Monster Ballads, by Josh Ritter I have a live version of this song from Josh’s 2020 Hell Yeah! album that’s so deeply searching and beautiful, with Sam Kassirer performing this delicate piano part that just lifts...
Most page transitions are polite interruptions. You click a card. The old page disappears. The new page appears. Maybe there is a fade. Maybe the content slides in. The navigation worked, but your eye has to start again. Find the title....