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A Man Who Has Nothing In Particular To Recommend Him Discusses All Sorts of Subjects at Random as Though He Knew Everything
Canteloupe Island is a Herbie Hancock composition, if memory serves. As a piece of music, it’s little more than an excuse to solo. A groove. These fellows in the video take full advantage of its possibilities. I’ve never heard of any of those guys, but that’s OK. They
The Parque Zoológico del Centenario, that is. The zoo is only a ten minute walk from our house, so we wander through from time to time to commiserate with the animals about the ambient temperature. The “centenario” sobriquet is because the park was founded in 1910, the 100-year
If you know only a little Spanish, you might be excused for thinking Grito de Dolores means that raw oyster you ate had some sand in it, and you have a stomachache. After remedial classes, you might mistake it for I yelled until I had a headache. But
Her room came to me in a dream last night. Just a door with a window straight across halfway down the hall in our pokey ranch. A room suitable for a penitent. One who had never committed a sin, and never would, except maybe to listen. There was
I will now attempt the lowest form of internet content. No, not pictures of cats. There is a circle of intertunnel hell below the feline meme zone: recipes. Only taking pictures of restaurant food while on vacation ranks lower. But by golly, I’m wading into this pool. I’m
Well, it’s Tuesday. Time to clean out the bookmarks I’ve been meaning to read. I’ll post them here, to avoid reading them properly. It’s the only way I can delete them without feeling foolish. The most beautiful bridges in the world Not hardly. Most of the included examples
Ever watch Dr. Zhivago? It’s a David Lean movie. Made all sorts of money. It’s a tale from Russia, with love. The love part was
She’s gone past gray to the shores of Thanatos. And there the children of dark Night have their dwellings, Sleep and Death, awful gods. The
There’s a moment just before the dawn in western Maine. It’s not ordinary. You have to have a view of it. The valley tumbles in
