My apologies to one and all for not posting in the last three weeks. The Mid-term elections yesterday kind of overwhelmed me, and -- suddenly -- they were past
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We love one particular national institution here in Washington, the Kennedy Center, and last evening we had a unique experience there. It was a genuinely odd production of "Measure for Measure" -- considered to be Shakespeare's only "other" play about justice and mercy ("Merchant of Venice" being the first
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Today, Wednesday Dec 20, was a horrid day in the ongoing horror that is the Trump presidency. Two aspects are equally sordid and disgusting
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Big news: this afternoon it was announced that the ongoing protests over the oil pipeline in the upper Midwest had done the trick. Public pressure has now stopped an environmentally dubious energy project. Stunning
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We here in the central Atlantic states missed last night's lunar eclipse completely, due to heavy cloud and rain. But a lovely soul on Tumblr* caught the whole thing, photographically
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I posted this text earlier, using the crummy tools on my BlackBerry, which resist editing, etc. So, telling myself NOT to post in that fashion again, I thought you'd want to take another stab at its substance -- as below
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Oh, gosh -- I am pulled in so MANY exciting directions these days. The row with Flickr and my crazy response (which may YET work out well); my new, quite-thrilling Mistress; and Everything Else. (Example: the "panties-bow" reblog from Mistress's Tumblr, prompting the arcane discussion of why some top photographers are obsessed with the bows [front
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I've been chatting with "jillwise" -- a sweet Canadian friend (her LJ is bilingual!). She's just read Joseph Heller's WWII novel Catch-22. (His title entered English vernacular, meaning "a frustrating situation in which one is trapped by contradictory regulations or conditions.") I alerted her to the movie with Alan Arkin and a bunch of other stars
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