From the monthly archives: June 2011
Note: I had a bleat in my head about Fred Steiner and Bernard Herrmann. Forgot to write it. Tomorrow. Argh.
Two weeks after a party, and I’m finally finishing up the salsa. It’s the best I ever had. Opinions differ on these things; wars were fought for less, I’m sure, in some of your [...]
On the way back from swimming we saw an ambulance trying to get through traffic at a stop light, presumably to join the dolorous choir of wailing emergency vehicles we heard when we left the mall. The presence of a white vehicle with flashing lights and a howling klaxon usually impresses upon others the need [...]
Sun. Clouds. Clouds SUN then clouds, then sunnnn, in a long expansive interlude that seemed to bore old Sol. The wind came up after supper and the night got chilly. Usually in the summer you go in, where the AC keeps it cool, and think: ahhhh. Today we went in the house, where the walls [...]
Challenge: name the source of the picture above. I think it goes without saying that there’s a Star Trek connection.
Good weekend. Great weekend. Oh, cold and cloudy, but of course, it’s summer. The new normal. Grey is the new green, and all that. The sun appeared Sunday afternoon, if only out of shame – [...]
Hey! Cold, overcast, but not a lot of rain. So that’s an improvement. In the evening I went outside, in a jacket, and smelled the woodsmoke of a neighbor’s fire, heard the announcer down at the athletic field calling a game, and it was just the sort of homey Fall evening you look forward to. [...]
Long sleeves and a jacket today, because, of course, it’s summer. The quantity of Funk in the minds of the populace is beyond measure. Consider this, though: funk is the opposite of funky, except when it’s the same thing. This may be an early example of slang inverting the meaning of a word to achieve [...]
Well: thank you for the kind words on the excerpt. I addressed a few points in the comments. As for the camera, yes, Benjamin uses a Speed Graphic. This one, I think:
It’s in the lobby of the third floor at the paper, a holy relic of another time.
As long as [...]
Well, here’s a surprise: a cool, overcast day! (sob) You can see it all settle in the faces of the citizens: they’ve written the summer off.
At least it’s not so hot that the dog suffers, but he’s taking his evening walks very slowly these days. Very slowly. The other day he just headed [...]
One out of every ten weekends I have an astonishingly productive Friday night – sites are designed, things are scanned, copy is written, all the updates are done. One out of ten. So naturally I judge every weekend by that standard. This one failed. It began with fear and terror: people were invited over to [...]
It was Ice Cream Day at the school where Gnat took classes this week. Web design and Pokemon. As for Web Design, they learned iWeb. Sigh. Not exactly a platform with a future. In Pokemon class, if you can call that, they had the FINAL BATTLE today, and while she was knocked out in the [...]
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