Sites
07.24.2002/09:01
All the state flowers.

News
07.24.2002/08:30
Does this bring to mind for anyone else the old Smothers Brothers song?

Drivel
07.22.2002/09:55
We went last night to see Rebel Without A Pause, a show by comedienne Reno that is winding up a New York run this week and starting to tour around a bit. Good lefty humor with a serious inner theme of what patriotism really means post Sept. 11. Or ever did.

News
07.22.2002/09:50
Interesting take on how Tiger Woods' troubled play at the British Open, and particularly the way he responded to the situation, enhances rather than diminishes his stature in the sports world.

Photos
07.20.2002/23:09
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Red Tides
Tonight we went to see something called the Caravan StageBarge, which has docked on the Bayou Teche in downtown New Iberia to do a pair of evening performances of its "work of experimental theatre," Red Tides, tonight and tomorrow night. Much acrobatics, a bit of pyrotechnics, mouthfuls of poetry that is sometimes a bit violet when it means to be violent, and awestruck faces in the small town crowd. There was continual movement by acrobats strung up into the rigging of the barge or on cloths hanging from high masts, and I found myself watching them even when there was movement from the dancers who performed mostly on the deck below.
I hope this kind of show is something that is repeated here. We do get bands that play in the downtown park from time to time, but this was something special.
The best thing I heard about the show, though, was what our wonderful mayor, Ruth Fontenot, told me. The crew had asked for four motel rooms, which the local Best Western offered on a complimentary basis. Later, the mayor learned in conversation that the troupe would gather and draw lots to see who would sleep in air-conditioned comfort and who would be left to swelter on the boat. So, she moved them all a block away from their boat to the thick-carpeted floors of the city-owned, richly cooled Sliman Theatre. "If I had known ahead of time, we could have gotten them some nice cots," she told me.
Anyway, hats off to our City government for sponsoring this truly unique theatrical experience.

Sites
07.20.2002/14:30
Are there any drive-in movies still operating near you?

Drivel
07.20.2002/10:56
I've been watching a lot of B-grade horror movies lately, I am happy to say. One thing I have to watch out for, though... last night I caught myself shouting at the screen, "Put your guns away. Can't you see they're useless against that thing?"
Anyway, one of the movies I watched last night was Lady Frankenstein, a dubbed Italian production that actually starred Joseph Cotten as the Baron; but the real star is the titular Lady, Rosabla Neri, aka Sara Bay. As the Baron's daughter, she returns from medical school to tumble onto his experiments and surprises him and us by displaying an even more ruthless willingness to sacrifice those around her to science. As well as to be seductive in pursuit of her aims.
I am curious to know if this film was ever shown much on late night U.S. TV, and if so, how it was edited down, because there are some nude scenes that are fairly essential to the plot... although the most sexually evocative moments come when the Lady's eyes gleam as she lays out her plan to put the brain of her wimpy, love-struck doctor assistant into the brawny young body of the idiot hired hand.
Meanwhile, the monster her father created roams around the village and the Italian countryside, killing and laying waste. At one point the masses assemble with their torches and rakes and shotguns, which they fire uselessly in the last moments before doom. Put your guns away. Can't you see they're useless against that thing?

News
07.20.2002/10:55
More on the recent blowgun shooting incidents in Washington, D.C.

Sites
07.20.2002/10:48
It's less than six months until Christmas, so here is where you can order a Carmen Miranda rubber bathtub duck.

Sites
07.20.2002/10:44
Cribbage Corner: "Everything for the cribbage fiend."

News
07.20.2002/10:36
Please don't feed the bears. Also, please don't kick the bears.

Sites
07.20.2002/10:23
What a great idea! I really want to go to the Spy Museum.

Sites
07.19.2002/22:47
Does the threat of a baseball players strike have you down? Don't just brood, do something about it.

Photos
07.19.2002/14:01
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Introducing Blink
Here is a shot from my first day of having a new StyleCam Blink digital camera. About the size of a soda cracker, takes a hundred 640x480 photos, and it set me back forty bucks. More to come...

News
07.19.2002/10:36
After the forest fire is contained, there is still much to be concerned about.

Sites
07.19.2002/10:33
Ugly babies? Actually, I find all of these rather adorable.

Sites
07.19.2002/10:27
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
funeraltransporting.com.
bowlingshoes.com.

Sites
07.18.2002/21:06
Ox Tongue Ice Cream.

Drivel
07.18.2002/20:51
Today and yesterday have been classic southern Louisiana Gulf Coast July midsummer hot. Double that for any time you are in a car in slow-rolling traffic, and bonus points if you came to your car only moments ago and found it oven-like from mercilessly efficient closed-window solar heating.
My answer to all this is to declare heat my hobby. And sitting in traffic, that's a hobby, too. If traffic's a hobby, then it's a great thing to be stuck in a wait-three-times-at-the-light backup, and if summer heat is a hobby, what a delight to have those sweat beads roll down my face and my wet shirt cling to the car upholstery. See? Make it a hobby and the otherwise dreaded becomes the collector's delight.
On my post-jog cool-down walk this evening, I brightly greeted a couple of people I know, saying, "Enjoy this warm weather, it won't last long." Only a couple of more months. Maybe three; it really could be mid-October before we get a dependably cool day. I think I'll look forward to pursuing one of my other hobbies: pleasant weather.

Sites
07.18.2002/20:47
What's this, two citations of View from an Iowa Homestead in two days? Yes! Check out John's photos from a driving trip across north-central Iowa.

News
07.18.2002/20:45
Just think of your local Wal-Mart as a watchful Big Brother.

News
07.18.2002/20:40
Fairly interesting story about the problem of how to get rid of, or re-use, troublesome motel properties in Indianapolis.

Sites
07.18.2002/09:34
Save the boxers.

News
07.18.2002/09:30
"Critics say what the Red Sox really want is to inspire fans to spend more money."

Sites
07.17.2002/09:39
I had a bit of correspondence today with John VanDyk, whose weblog View from an Iowa Homestead I had identified in my links, through some kind of Freudian typo, as "Iowa Farmstead" (since corrected). It's one of my favotire weblogs to read. In fact, I've thought much about a recent pair of posts John did, the first about an auction he attendended; and the second, the one that really gave me pause, was the follow-up he posted the next day.

News
07.17.2002/09:25
Copy-bat crime.

News
07.16.2002/22:39
Clown crime in London, U.K.

Sites
07.16.2002/22:22
Jacob, Meet Emily...
The most popular baby names of 2001. (Via TheCrayfish.com.)

News
07.16.2002/22:16
Blowgun dart attacks in the news.

Drivel
07.16.2002/08:05
Oh, I don't mind the part of a lottery ticket that winds up going to the state in the form of a sort of elective tax. What I resent is the part that goes to pay the winning ticket holders. What do I ever get out of that?

Sites
07.16.2002/07:55
The Found Magazine web site has a generous sampling of found objects, most notably hand-written notes and photographs that often themselves come with written evidence. There is also the Find of the Week.

Sites
07.16.2002/07:52
The Apostrophe Protection Society.

Sites
07.16.2002/07:50
Just remember to turn on your speakers when you go to Seven Peas.

Sites
07.16.2002/07:44
The Birdhouse Network.

News
07.16.2002/07:42
What would you call a street where a mammoth tusk had turned up when it was being constructed?

News
07.16.2002/07:33
Hey, like guys, you wanna see something, like, really gross?

News
07.15.2002/21:02
"Playing the bare market, Playboy magazine on Monday offered female employees of threatened corporate giants WorldCom and Andersen the same chance to pose nude as it did those of fallen energy trader Enron."

Sites
07.15.2002/08:41
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
ballparkblueprints.com.

News
07.15.2002/08:37
Though most of Colorado is not in the least affected by recent fires, tourists are punishing the whole state.

News
07.14.2002/21:38
Nice photo of tricolor jet trails for Parisian Bastille Day celebration.

Drivel
07.14.2002/12:00
It rained hard and steadily from early this morning until about 10:00 a.m. I had planned the cut the grass this morning, but it's much too wet. Oh, well!

Drivel
07.13.2002/15:54
I think my aversion to Wal-Mart, and its kin, has matured into a phobia. Martophobia. If I have to even think about going to one of those places, I'm simply martified.

Photos
07.13.2002/15:47
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Banana Leaf in the Rain
Raindrops on a banana leaf in our back yard, as thunderstorm ebbs.

Sites
07.13.2002/08:24
Blackmask Online has over 8,000 books, available in a range for e-book formats. Content is slanted towards mystery and pulp fiction, though the classic fiction is well stocked.

News
07.13.2002/08:16
A pretty girl is like a malady.

News
07.12.2002/21:43
Clown crime in Winona, MN.

News
07.12.2002/09:24
Those folks at the Memphis Zoo are sure hoping that they get some pandas for their panda exhibit.

Sites
07.12.2002/09:02
Crazy Crows are crow decoys of use to... crow hunters. See 'em in action.

Sites
07.12.2002/08:52
Hey kids! Look! Your science project on rain is already done!

News
07.12.2002/08:50
Um, who builds a $45 million mansion on spec?

Sites
07.11.2002/11:37
I have updated the archive page to include both what we call around here Modern Poor Clio (since 6.19.2002) and Classic Poor Clio (before that re-design date). The old stuff is in static pages, the new stuff searches from the Access database that ColdFusion uses to store all the entries.

News
07.11.2002/09:47
Observatory for sale, not that anyone has much idea what it's worth.

Sites
07.11.2002/09:40
Interesting collection of photos depicting London's Industrial Heritage.

Sites
07.11.2002/09:32
Safe in Space?
So, the Lifeboat Foundation proposes to safeguard humanity from "the growing threat of terrorism and technological cataclysm" by having such alternative means as the space station Ark I. Presumably, there will be some pretty good security screening in place to ensure that no terrorists get to board the space arks.

Sites
07.10.2002/18:10
The Japanese Female Facial Expression Database.

News
07.10.2002/16:01
Atomic Frontier.

News
07.10.2002/10:47
A tie in the All Star game. One more moment where the veneer shows to be rather thin.

Drivel
07.10.2002/10:34
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Consider the Eel
I have just finished reading my friend Richard Schweid's new book, Consider the Eel. It is Richard's gift to not only fascinate the reader by leading him into a new and engrossing world, but to set the grander perspective in a way that comfortably grows around the details at hand. We learn not only about the extraordinary life cycle of European and American eels, we are given an absorbing view of what is happening to this and other fishery industries. As happened with vegetables and meat long ago, we are now moving toward a point where our seafood will be grown programmatically rather than harvested from its natural environment. Good book, good read, good topic. Consider this book.

Sites
07.9.2002/20:50
I have really come to appreciate the writing at bluishorange.

Sites
07.9.2002/07:40
elgooG.

Sites
07.9.2002/07:37
A rather replete online guide to British ghosts.

Drivel
07.9.2002/07:34
All-Star Break
Steroid scandals. Rapdidly escalating ticket prices. Nasty labor disputes. Maybe I should start thinking of baseball as something I used to enjoy.

News
07.8.2002/22:44
It turns out that my after-lunch visit to my easy chair is good for something after all!

Photos
07.8.2002/11:03
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Baby Chimney Swifts
Susan gives one last feeding to the baby chimney swifts which had been orphaned in our chimney before taking them to a bird rehabiliator. She found someone who is equipped with flight cages, etc., and where we expect the young birds have their best chance of success.

News
07.8.2002/08:39
New York City subway cars have useful new life as artificial augmentation of Delaware coastal reef.

News
07.8.2002/08:32
Ebay to buy PayPal, though not at auction.

Photos
07.7.2002/18:50
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Our Table Before Supper
Partially set table before our evening meal, July 7, 2002.

Sites
07.7.2002/13:38
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
alligatorfarm.com.

News
07.7.2002/13:34
Slow recovery of wolf pack population in northern Rockies.

News
07.7.2002/08:45
Urban villages along the Metro line in the Washington D.C. suburbs.

Sites
07.6.2002/22:27
I absolutely love both the design and content of the photographic site secretthree.com.
(And I gratefully acknowledge mood-indigo.net for showing the way!)

Photos
07.6.2002/15:50
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Cross Fire
The fire that struck the Breaux Bridge, LA building that houses both Cafe Des Amis and the apartment of owners Cynthia and Dickie Breaux on June 27, 2002, was fortunately detected early. No one was hurt and the restaurant will be re-opened within a few weeks. Soot and smoke in the apartment left this cruciform imprint above a doorway.

Photos
07.6.2002/15:46
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Office Aftermath
The Breaux Bridge, LA building that houses Cafe Des Amis and the apartment of owners Cynthia and Dickie Breaux suffered a fire on June 27, 2002. The fire was fortunately detected and controlled early; no one is hurt and the restaurant will re-open in a few weeks. This room was the second floor office.

Sites
07.6.2002/09:14
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
llamatravel.com.

News
07.6.2002/09:10
Some riders of the Washington Metro system are pissed.

News
07.6.2002/09:03
Ted Williams' dead body in the news.

News
07.5.2002/16:38
Ted Williams, R.I.P.

News
07.5.2002/16:37
Texas flood.

News
07.5.2002/09:58
Road rage in the dead of the night.

News
07.5.2002/09:54
Cat feces-imperiled sea otters in the news.

News
07.5.2002/09:51
Dead babies in the news.

Drivel
07.5.2002/09:48
Last night we were at a friend's house, where there was a pretty good display of fireworks to celebrate the Fourth. At one point, a couple of the kids lit up some Roman candles, and as the bright intermittent puffs illuminated the sky for brief seconds, I wondered how the Romans were able to read by these things.

Sites
07.5.2002/09:45
Hardcore Backyard Wrestling.

News
07.5.2002/00:37
City council in Moscow, ID, faced with a topless carwash, floats anti-bare-breast ordinance in an effort, as one civic solon says, to "eliminate any community harm from naked breasts."

News
07.4.2002/11:52
Fish story.

News
07.4.2002/11:45
Ebbing interest from school kids in summer jobs.

Sites
07.4.2002/11:28
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
sparebladder.com.

News
07.3.2002/13:22
"I would stay away from this stock. I would not be speculating even at 12 cents."

News
07.3.2002/12:35
If you were given the choice, would you rather talk about ice box desserts, or your role near the center of an insider trading scandal?

Sites
07.3.2002/12:23
"Scotland is UFO Hotspot."

News
07.3.2002/12:07
Careers
JOE: Well, it's great to see you after all these years, thanks for calling me for lunch.
SHMOE: Sure. This is the first time the circus has come here since I joined up... let's see, nine years ago.
JOE: You've been with the circus nine years now? You must really love it. Is it fun?
SHMOE: Love it? Fun? Do you know what I do? I wash elephants. And shovel elephant poop. That's what I have been doing every day for, well, for almost a decade now. It's awful. I hate it, every minute of it.
JOE: Well, if you hate is so much, why don't you just quit?
SHMOE: Quit? No way. And get out of show business?

News
07.3.2002/12:05
Roswell's annual UFO Festival might be well worth attending, particularly for Saturday's alien costume contest.

News
07.2.2002/17:11
More on the dangers of overhydation.

News
07.2.2002/10:57
Interesting look at practice of creating roadside memorials for accident victims.

News
07.2.2002/10:54
San Francisco Board of Supervisors decides that the city should, after all, ban public urination.

Sites
07.2.2002/10:50
Boombox Museum.

Sites
07.2.2002/10:43
Sites That Are What Their URLs Say They Are Dept.:
highheelsonline.com.

News
07.2.2002/10:38
You mean it's not space vampires? Oh, rats.

News
07.1.2002/22:27
Though not as dramatic as fires, bugs can kill just as many trees over the course of a Colorado summer as the blazes do.

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