Memorable quote # 5
Don’t stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don’t stop, it’ll soon be here, (more…)
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The Busker Trail
This picture was taken yesterday at the annual buskers festival on the Sparks St. Mall in Ottawa, Ontario, on a hot & mainly sunny day. You have to admire the work ethic of the performers, in this case handling flaming torches while on nine-foot and six-foot unicycles. Their dexterity, as well as interacting capacity with amorphous audiences, are strong points. (more…)
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.
Memorable quote # 4
Can you remember remember my name As I flow through your life (more…)
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…)
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 
Memorable quote # 6
uniformity
conventionality (more…)
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