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It’s so bright here on the outside….

Wow! I didn’t actually plan to take four days of break from posting here; I had a nice little streak going there, too! But, that’s what happens. Truth to tell, I spent four days in jail for faking my car’s … Continue reading

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Tuesday Tones

A month or two ago when I was doing a series of music posts using music inspired by the moon, one post featured a work by Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi. As I seem to do whenever I find a new … Continue reading

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Do you have submechanophobia, Charlie Brown?

I never knew about a thing called submechanophobia until we traveled to Hawaii in 2021, and The Daughter reacted very strongly against the idea of going to the Pearl Harbor Memorial and seeing the Arizona. The idea of looking down at a sunken … Continue reading

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I am just now realizing that I never said anything about the passing of Dick Cheney

Well…that’s that, then. I hope he said hello to Kissinger on his way to the lake of fire.

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A Saturday Morning Quiz Thing

Here’s a quiz from Sunday Stealing! I’m doing this because it’s early Saturday morning and I’m sitting here with a mug of tea and I don’t really want to do anything productive quite yet but I need to post something … Continue reading

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“Momentary masters of a fraction of a dot”

Earth, from the rings of Saturn: “In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. It is only … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

We all have those movies, don’t we? They’re the movies where we’ll be going about our day, doing stuff that we’ve planned out and intended to get done…but then we’ll see that one of those movies is on teevee or something, and … Continue reading

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What about a very tall garden shed?

There’s a social media account called “Terrible Maps” which is exactly that: absurd maps, where the absurdity either comes from the weirdness of the information being mapped, or just plain meta-absurdity. Here is a version of the latter: And here … Continue reading

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Tuesday Tones

Continuing our self-guided tour of classical music inspired by water, we have perhaps one of the two greatest works ever directly inspired by a river (well, maybe three, depending on how strongly we consider Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen to have … Continue reading

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“When the waves turn minutes to hours”

Fifty years ago today, one of the most notorious maritime disasters in American history happened when the Edmund Fitzgerald, a mighty freighter of the Great Lakes, foundered and sank near the eastern end of Lake Superior. The story is well … Continue reading

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