What’s Coming this Week
A few things: Victoria Day on May 23, Towel Day on May 25, and (hallelujah!) the final week of what is, nominally, the Johnny-Depp-versus-Amber-Heard defamation trial but what is, actually, an egregious mash-up of the worst aspects of celebrity culture and cable-TV obnoxiousness.
Video Memory of the Week
Posted: 2022 May 21
Photo Memory of the Week
Music of the Week
Version with lyrics chosen to compensate for the general mush-mouth-ed-ness of the singer. Or maybe my ears are just getting old . . .
Posted: 2022 May 20
Words of the Week
"A watched pot has never delivered such excitement." - Joe Ray
Source: Wired, 2022 May 13Posted: 2022 May 20
Tweet of the Week
What an interesting coincidence that the people who believe Western civilization is uniquely terrible turned out to be uniquely terrible at running Western civilization
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) May 20, 2022
Author Archives: Isabel Gibson
Weights Faces
This is what happens when you get oot-and-aboot again after an illness. Continue reading
Pretty Well
It’s not just a difference in degree: It’s a difference in kind. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, New Perspectives
Tagged Miscellany, Musicians, Professionals
15 Comments
Hold My Beer and Farewell Best Beloved
History in the making. Continue reading
Posted in Laughing Frequently, Through History, Through the Calendar
Tagged History, Word Play
6 Comments
In Case You Were Wondering
It is a wise child that knows its mother. Continue reading
Going in Style
How did you spend your week? Continue reading
Foot / Shape
Today the foot. Tomorrow the world. Continue reading
The Heck
Welcome visitors. Time well wasted. Continue reading
Spinus tristis
A flash of yellow. And of hope. Continue reading
More Scenes of Ireland
More miscellaneous Donegal scenes. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Built Stuff, Photos of Landscapes, Through Space
Tagged Beaches, Bridges, Buildings, Flowers, Skies
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