le coup d’oeil de génie
Finished the Michael Korda tome on Ike. I still need to excerpt quotes, but love that his favorite painter was J.M.W. Turner. He “owned” a watercolor of Culzean Castle (by Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Economics
Weekend 332.0
(1) Eminent domain on steroids? New bill threatens cities, towns (Fairfield Citizen) (2) How Bad Religion Has Bequeathed Us ‘An Anxious Age’ (The Federalist)
Medieval Modernists
(1) Public Transportation Affects Home Values (Fox Business) (2) What Makes Iconic Design: Lessons from the Visual History of the London Underground Logo
Weekend 248.1 (Our Elites)
This is WHY I stopped writing about politics. The first example is local and the second is national BUT both demonstrate the “I got mine, you get yours” attitude of Continue Reading →
Avant le déluge
If you are a student of history (or if you ever read Berlin by Jason Lutes) this quote from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard just gave you chills. Paris has a strange atmosphere Continue Reading →
Weekend 220.1
(1) I would run to you (advertisement for NIKE) (1a) Joel Kotkin: The Great California Exodus (WSJ) (2) Suddenly Simple: Authentic, organic and local isn’t just about your food—American minimalist Continue Reading →
Weekend 214.0 (Almost)
(1) The scan is from The Art of the The Secret World of Arrietty. I can’t scan the entire book BUT will add the abandoned gazebo (not tea house) in Continue Reading →
Weekend 210.0
First ride of 2012! It was mostly an excuse to test the installation of a Brooks Flyer Saddle. I rode to the post office and stopped for coffee. I had Continue Reading →
Weekend 198.0
(1) Rachel Field “Field also wrote the English lyrics for the version of Franz Schubert’s Ave Maria used in the Disney film Fantasia (film).” (1a) Walt Disney’s Ave Maria (2) Continue Reading →
Weekend 197.0
(1) What Comes After ‘Europe’? But there is always a danger in substituting grandiosity for achievement, mistaking pronouncements for facts, or, more generally, believing in your own nonsense. (2) Greece Continue Reading →