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Pandemic Floating Toilets aka Cruise Ships.

LOVE=EVOL

–Pearl Bailey

Here I’m here the snow falling. –Issa Kobayashi If only you could hear the sound of snow. –Hakuin Ekaku There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting. … Continue reading →

There is also David Lean’s 1984 A Passage to India, a good adaptation of E.M. Forster’s classic. But Richard Attenborough’s 1982 AA-winning Best Picture is the last on a mass human scale not seen since the 1950s and ’60s. The … Continue reading →

“You’ve got to walk that lonesome valley. You’ve got to walk it by yourself. Lord, nobody else can walk it for you. You’ve got to walk it by yourself.” –(sung/recited by John Stewart, left), The Kingston Trio, “The Reverend Mr. … Continue reading →

(a resplendent little UK movie which won Best Picture in 1981; Ian Charleson #451) Watching him in Gandhi (1983) and remembering him as Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire before that. Various speeches from that movie are on Google Video, … Continue reading →

The late Pepper (right) would respond to invitations for a walk on a word-by-word basis: “Do (head cocking)-you (moreso)-want-(getting excited)-to( very excited)-go…anyway by the time you got to walk, she was by the door. Also went crazy upstairs if you … Continue reading →

knowing what I know and as sure as I am, without a good crap detector. Thank you, Aristotle, Hemingway, and Postman.

Make no mistake about it. He has been hanging out in Africa for a more subtle reason: to do penance for his multiple blackface episodes. This way if he comes off ok with the people there, he will really ‘reproved’ … Continue reading →