One night one of my teenaged sister's friends took a needle and gave my nipples. I believe I threw a major fit and both she and my mom just laughed at me.
Bela Fleck played Bach on his banjo at a concert I attended, and he used just fingers on the fingerboard, no strumming. A tour de force. Also, converted me to love banjo music. I really appreciated the comments about the Irish bard and Vivaldi. Context is everything, but maybe it shouldn't be.
On a family road trip, I thought it would be funny to hang my sister's Barbie out the window, give her some, ahem, air. Up went the window too high, off went the head. The look on my sister's face...then the tears. I was a relatively decent kid, just being a moron older brother. I'm sure similar scenes played out all over, accidentally or intentional.
The tune was beautiful! Loved the piece about your college friend reunions. Kuddos to you for yearly! I too have a group that met in 71, my bff, and 5 others in 72 known as "The Magnificent Seven" or "the mags". We have our "Mag Fests" and "Mini Mags" if not the full group. The men are "mag men", the children, "mini mags", the grands, "grandmags". The men often call us "the hags". We also do a lot of nothing that means everything to us in between gathering. I love the nautical "back to port" and "anchors". They make me feel grounded in a good way. Hope you had a great time
so gary johnson was a 'fringey libertarian'. not a compliment, from a progressive [i'll not add 'woke'] democrat - but probably true of johnson. yet johnson received the most votes a libertarian candidate had ever received [still holds the title], and the most votes for an 'independent' [ie, non-democrat/non-republican] since ross perot. i just re-read the Trib's endorsement - what could you disagree with and 'stand up on your hind legs' for? trump was demonstrably awful and totally unqualfied; clinton was disingenuously supporting fiscal craziness, and was highly ethically/morally flawed - other than your perception that the Trib's logic for voting for a 3rd party candidate fell short? like the Trib, I '... reject the cliche that a citizen who chooses a principled third-party candidate is squandering his or her vote.' johnson received mine.
This week's "Tune of the Week" is the best ever. Thank you.
"My dad’s work is amazing." -- Eric Zorn
I can't agree. It is truly amazing, perhaps!
I just went to his website to see his fantastic sculptures. His descriptions were totally mysterious to this non scientific brain tho.
on the tweet of the week, wish the feds would come down the same way on the rioters. FYI, it over $360,000 union lives and 4 years to do it too.
1. I don't understand the Marco tweet
2. Please don't give away my traffic avoidance secrets!
That's a stitch. We are polar opposites. I ONLY understand the Marco tweet. Explain the Barbie one to me. Please.
I never owned a Barbie, but several folks I knew in college said they had pulled theirs apart: heads off, legs off, you name it. Why? Dunno.
One night one of my teenaged sister's friends took a needle and gave my nipples. I believe I threw a major fit and both she and my mom just laughed at me.
Bela Fleck played Bach on his banjo at a concert I attended, and he used just fingers on the fingerboard, no strumming. A tour de force. Also, converted me to love banjo music. I really appreciated the comments about the Irish bard and Vivaldi. Context is everything, but maybe it shouldn't be.
RE: Barbie - Apparently it was quite common for kids to remove the heads from their Barbie dolls. I have no idea why, though.
Because we could!
A chance for JoanP and Joan Pederson to offer essentially identical comments--yippee!
On a family road trip, I thought it would be funny to hang my sister's Barbie out the window, give her some, ahem, air. Up went the window too high, off went the head. The look on my sister's face...then the tears. I was a relatively decent kid, just being a moron older brother. I'm sure similar scenes played out all over, accidentally or intentional.
We are returning to Port and the lighthouse beam gets dimmer.
Thanks for the "Twilight." Lifts and warms like a hymn.
The tune was beautiful! Loved the piece about your college friend reunions. Kuddos to you for yearly! I too have a group that met in 71, my bff, and 5 others in 72 known as "The Magnificent Seven" or "the mags". We have our "Mag Fests" and "Mini Mags" if not the full group. The men are "mag men", the children, "mini mags", the grands, "grandmags". The men often call us "the hags". We also do a lot of nothing that means everything to us in between gathering. I love the nautical "back to port" and "anchors". They make me feel grounded in a good way. Hope you had a great time
so gary johnson was a 'fringey libertarian'. not a compliment, from a progressive [i'll not add 'woke'] democrat - but probably true of johnson. yet johnson received the most votes a libertarian candidate had ever received [still holds the title], and the most votes for an 'independent' [ie, non-democrat/non-republican] since ross perot. i just re-read the Trib's endorsement - what could you disagree with and 'stand up on your hind legs' for? trump was demonstrably awful and totally unqualfied; clinton was disingenuously supporting fiscal craziness, and was highly ethically/morally flawed - other than your perception that the Trib's logic for voting for a 3rd party candidate fell short? like the Trib, I '... reject the cliche that a citizen who chooses a principled third-party candidate is squandering his or her vote.' johnson received mine.