Day 174 – Hot Dog
Sequel at the back door baking in the 11 am heat yesterday.
Can’t Be All Four
Thanks to abqdan for posting this originally. The image is available on t-shirts, btw.
Edward Moore Kennedy
I slid the flag half-way down its pole before I put it on display this morning. A small gesture, but I needed to do it. Ted's clarion calls for compassionate public policy have stirred me most of my life. His clear rhetoric slashed through the technical/political mumbling on vitally important issues from the Vietnam War to health care. He said what I felt, and said it unambiguously and unapologetically. His life reflects the standards that were instilled in me growing up in Massachusetts in the late 1950's and early 1960's. Ted was a man who inherited his family's imperative to serve [...]
Barney Frank Insults Your Home’s Furniture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlZiWK2Iy8A new low in the debate on health care. [Go, Barney!]
The Music Man
Ashland, Oregon at the Oregon Shakespeare FestivalMusic Man Book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Wilson Story by Meredith Wilson and Frank Lacey I keep saying that I don’t like musicals. When I walked out of The Music Man grinning, humming, and full of “do you remember when Harold Hill…” comments, I thought I was on an unnatural high. I was sure that after a day or so, the holes in the melodic fabric would appear, and I would become a happy, jaded nay-sayer again: “Well, there really is only one song in the whole show, you know.” I assumed that a [...]