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
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Tag Archives: Highways & Vehicles
San Tan Freeway, Gilbert AZ
Adding freeways to bridges as objects of photographic interest. Continue reading
Vehicles, Lowell AZ
Vintage vehicles in ghost town. Continue reading
National Treasure #56: Snowmobile
Sleds and where they came from. Continue reading
National Treasure #54: Trans Canada Highway
The longest national highway. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Laughing Frequently, Through Canada
Tagged Highways & Vehicles, History
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Cars, Ottawa ON
Cars reflected in building. Continue reading
Trusting No One
“Is he turning he has to turn there are barricades why isn’t he signalling why isn’t he slowing down he’s going to crash into the barricades is he turning he has to turn he’s going to hit me I can’t … Continue reading
In the Long Run
Intimations of death by freeway driving; warnings of deterioration by refusing to drive on the freeway. What’s a girl to do? Continue reading
One for the Road
Anthropomorphizing our GPS would be unreasonable if she weren’t really a person. Continue reading