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Monthly Archives: June 2025
How can you tell if a dog is enjoying her life?
Oh, she’ll make it clear.
Posted in On Dogs and Dog Life, Photographic Documentation
Tagged Doggos, Photo Posts
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Something for Thursday (IMF edition)
If not for Monty Norman and John Barry’s work on the James Bond Theme, the most famous theme for an action-packed spy series would almost certainly be Lalo Schifrin’s theme to Mission: Impossible. Schifrin passed away today at the age … Continue reading
Posted in On Music, Passages
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Dave and Twiggy
According to the signs at the Botanical Gardens two Saturdays ago, those are the names of the persons who were getting married at a ceremony at the Gardens while we were there. Sure enough, as we arrived in one of … Continue reading
Posted in On Exploring Photography, Photographic Documentation
Tagged Photo Posts, Photography (the subect)
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Tuesday Tones
Lou Harrison (1917-2003) was a prominent 20th century voice in American music, as well as gay art. He explored homosexual themes in his work, which was strongly modernist to the point of being avant-garde at times. He was heavily influenced … Continue reading
Remembering James Horner (1953-2015)
(This is a repost of what I wrote when composer James Horner died ten years ago, very prematurely, in a plane crash. Apparently Horner had been an amateur, hobbyist pilot. My relationship with his music through the years was complicated, … Continue reading
Bob and Bruce (a repost)
(This is a repost from a couple of years ago. I’m bringing it back in honor of the 50th anniversary of the release of JAWS, which opened June 20, 1975. I didn’t get to watch JAWS until I was a teenager, which … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Given how highly I value this song, I’m surprised to see that I haven’t featured it much in this space. It’s a song about homesickness, written by Scottish master Dougie MacLean, and it’s one of his biggest hits and signature … Continue reading
Things that fly
Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, Photographic Documentation
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Tuesday Tones
An old favorite, in two ways: first, because the music is obviously amazing, and second, because the accompanying animation is also amazing. Here is Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, as performed and animated for the Disney film Fantasia 2000.
Open-source C+ (or something like that)
And just where the hell have I been? Well, right here, with all the usual nonsense going on: busy at work, lots of stuff going on at home, and the usual existential stuff about whether or not I’m still a writer … Continue reading
Posted in Random Linkage
Tagged Lazy Linkage
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