When Apple began its TV streaming service several years ago, I tried watching the sitcom Acapulco but gave up after one episode. It seemed like a pretty conventional sitcom that was set in Mexico. Then not too long ago I noticed that there were four seasons of the show available. Perhaps I had been too … Continue reading Maximo Pleasure
Moron
Pardon me for publishing a second post in a row with a political subject, but when I see Elon Musk Is a Moron in a title, I simply cannot help myself. After all, I recognized that he was a moron long before most other folks did. Dean Baker writes: Remember Elon Musk running around in … Continue reading Moron
Reflections in a Greenish Pool
Once again I’m turning a post over to E-V.com. Yesterday's This Week in Schadenfreude is too good to pass up. This Week in Schadenfreude: Death to Algae! Boy, this story is almost too obvious for this feature. And yet, it is also damn near the Platonic ideal of schadenfreude, so we're going with it. As … Continue reading Reflections in a Greenish Pool
The Bird Mural
I had wanted to snap a picture of the bird mural on the house near the Rite Aid shop on 6th Street, but I never got around to it. Now it’s all fenced off as they’re tearing down the closed Rite Aid and building who knows what in its place. But I managed to snap … Continue reading The Bird Mural
An Analog to Seldon’s Plan
Leon Reed is a historian who lives in Gettysburg, and he’s come up with an interesting interpretation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. Being the Asimov fan that I am, I’m always at least curious to hear new insights into his work. To review briefly, Asimov’s stories take place roughly 25,000 years in the future when … Continue reading An Analog to Seldon’s Plan
A Picture Is Worth…
My next door neighbor is moving out so she can have an office/studio in her own home, rather than having parts of her studio in her house and having to rent a separate facility as she does now. But she had difficulty finding movers who could move her 900 pound printing press, and when she … Continue reading A Picture Is Worth…
Ellen Weiant
Ellen Weiant in her senior class play. Ellen is on the far right dressed as a maid. Across the street from us when we lived on West Main Street in Richland was JoAnn Weiant (pronounced WEE-ant) and her three children, Julian, Ellen, and Kathleen. JoAnn had been a friend of my mother’s ever since their … Continue reading Ellen Weiant
Summer Break
In the last few days of spring term 1970, three of us (Carl Gruber, Perry Harris, and I) managed to sign the lease for a townhouse at Southgate Apartments for the following school year, but because of the expense we needed to find a fourth roommate. Perry left before Carl and I did, and he … Continue reading Summer Break
Picturing Jesus
Here’s another video from the Western Canadian Reason Conference. This one shows how Jesus has been pictured through the ages. Even though he was a Jewish Middle Eastern man, he’s been most commonly pictured as someone with the same ethnicity as those who were doing the picturing. There is a lot of humor in this … Continue reading Picturing Jesus
Alan, Angie, and Clarke
There are a couple of recent Fresh Air episodes that I want to highlight. First, there’s a retrospective episode of interviews from several years ago with Alan Cumming and Angela Lansbury. Cumming talks about his appearance in Caberet among other things, and the Lansbury interview is from 1980, so she’s talking about her role in Sondheim’s … Continue reading Alan, Angie, and Clarke