Memorable quote # 4
Can you remember remember my name As I flow through your life (more…)
Archive for July, 2014
Classic TV Perspective # 2
One of the by-products of being able to see past TV series on DVD or YouTube is opportunity to witness the development of character arcs, and how well they fit into the setting of cast relationships. Moreover, being able to see multiples episodes, even seasons, of a series reveals how, what on an original weekly broadcast were minor eccentric annoyances, become cumulatively persistent irritations. (more…)
Memorable quote # 3
There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done, Nothing You can sing that can’t be sung. Nothing you can say, but you can learn how to play the game, It’s easy. (more…)
Sign of some improvement
Here is a follow-up to my posting June 29th of the questionable direction sign leading to Ottawa International Airport:
In the last couple of days, I’ve had correspondence with a senior person in the city’s traffic services branch posting department. He provided a picture of the pending new green sign, to be replacing the current one (see picture below) soon.
The new green sign is the same size, with ‘TO/VERS’ plus ‘TERMINAL/AEROGARE’ removed. Also, there is (more…)
Memorable quote # 2
Do you have a photograph when you were still in high school
Were you happy in it (more…)
The Big ‘Sleeps’
Can we please have people in the media not use the juvenile expression about how many ‘sleeps’ there are until some event arrives, especially when it is adult oriented? (more…)
Memorable quote # 1
“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our live sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
& lyrics from ‘Assault and Battery’ by Hawkwind
the watch of time 
Bricks Make the Man
This picture is of a lego bricks version of famed American humourist Mark Twain, which greets visitors to his home and museum in West Hartford, Connecticutt. It is an ironicly constructed image, in that his legacy of writing has survived like a solid brick, but a review of his life shows that he had his share of rebuilding after family and career setbacks. Ultimately, he stands out as a foundation of historic works.
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Arts commentary, Pictures speak volumes