Weekend 348.0 (Make Mine Music)
(1) Make Time For It: Meantime X Brompton collaboration (YouTube) (2) David Gilmour – The Girl In The Yellow Dress (Official Music Video) (YouTube)
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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 →
Weekend 326.0 (Is this the real deal?)
***Update: The storm was kind of a bust and ridiculously over-hyped (shocker)*** We’re expecting a little snow here in New England so I biked to the diner for breakfast and Continue Reading →
Weekend 322.0
(1) THE DØ – Dust it Off (YouTube) (2) A couple of quotes from The Awakening of Miss Prim by Natalia Sanmartin Fenollera: “What is a gatekeeper to do if Continue Reading →
Holiday Tinsel
(1) American Masters: Bing Crosby Rediscovered (1a) Hip to Be Square
Weekend 306.0
(1) World Cup themed episode of Disney’s Mickey Mouse shorts debuts (2) Playmobil channels Mary Blair? (3) Book Review: ‘Bicycle Design: An Illustrated History’ by Tony Hadland and Hans-Erhard Lessing Continue Reading →
Weekend 302.0 (And sunday always comes too late)
I think it’s like a nervous tick or something, but sometimes I get a song stuck in my head and then it takes days to get dislodged. This time it’s Continue Reading →
Weekend 301.0 (Memorial Day Weekend)
My sister always lends me great books and she found a real gem with In Unfamiliar England by Thos D. Murphy. Only forty pages invested, and there’s already been references Continue Reading →
Weekend 265.0 (Ponte Santa Trinita)
Bit of a creative rut lately (and very busy) but optimistic upcoming bike events (and coffee) will provide inspiration. (1) Album review: Daft Punk, Random Access Memories (2) Meditation on Continue Reading →
Weekend 257.0
Three from the journal, a **NEW** Mickey Mouse short, some lyrics, and a recap of the snowy US MNT World Cup Qualifier against Costa Rica in Denver. Also, still finishing Continue Reading →