Whose those Pups?
This is Arya . . . a French Bulldog. Cute? Sure. Cuddly? Absolutely, if you like that sort of thing. I’m posting this ’cause I haven’t posted anything here in three years. I figure a…
Upcoming Posts
When I go through the logs of this site, I see several things. Content scrapers repeatedly drop in to steal articles and illustrations to sell to anyone fool enough to buy from them; script-run spammers…
Find the Error
News has interested me from my childhood. Not too long ago, news writers were literate folk who made certain of their facts — not to mention their spelling and grammar — before writing “-30-” on…
Events and Passages
As fall starts thinking of rolling around, people — it seems — start to fall away. Yesterday, I read of an arguably successful director/producer who ended it all by throwing himself from a Los Angeles…
“Eight years of tension”
Earlier yesterday, 1: 1:32am EDT . . . this landed on Mars . . . 2: 1:34am EDT . . . making these folks happy 3: 1:47am EDT It sent back pictures of its shadow…
Signs and Wonders?
The extremely unusual is going on. And not all of it is Canadian. Example One: Hockey Night in Canada, the theme song of the weekly broadcast (entitled, as you may imagine, ‘Hockey Night in Canada’)…
Peace Out, Redux
Fifty years go by like nothing . . . and so it is with the famed peace sign, whose 50th anniversary was recently observed. . . . Filipino Good Friday re-enactors have been admonished by…
Monday Miscellany
Excess money? A remedy for that could be a whack of movies from United Artists. The United Artists 90th Anniversary Prestige Collection provides you with enough entertainment to last you into your dotage. . ….
Death by Cell Phone
Out of South Korea comes news that a quarry worker was killed by his LG cell phone. – – – WiseAndFoolish recommends that folks always be nice to their cell phones. – –…
Of Jim, Jay and Tammy Faye
A quick check of my logs indicates that a large percentage of visitors have popped by due to a post here entitled YAS (Yet Another Scandal). The post in question briefly mentioned Tammy Faye Messner. …