Category Archives: Art
Googoogajoob
Category Art, Movies, Travel
On February 17th, 1969, almost forty years ago, a popular singing group, very well known in their day (wink-wink), released a Double-sided A single 45 rpm record. The names of the songs were Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever. Maybe you recall this group – they were called The Beatles.
Mikie & Mayumi in Vietnam
Category Art, Reviews, Travel
Viet Nam – What kind of images do you conjure up when you hear these words ? Maybe you think of movies like Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, Born on the 4th of July, or even Forrest Gump. Alternatively, you are recalling America’s longest involvement in a single war which we remember as the War [...]
The Good Life
Category Art, Movies, Travel
Ça va? That’s French, pronounced like sa-va, for how are you? Brrrrrr is the universal sound made by those of us living somewhere in the frozen northeast of the USA, or anyplace where winter lives, as both Mother Nature and Old Man Winter continue to bedevil us and wreak havoc on our leisure activities. Yes, [...]
February – The Lost Month
Category Art
February – The Lost Month There’s got to be a reason why February got short-changed. Just 28 days most years, with an occasional 29th day every four years. You’d have thought that they — whoever ‘they’ were that first dreamed up a thing called a calendar — would have had two fewer months with 31 [...]
One Small Dab to Begin – Art by Howard Behrens
Category Art
Seems funny to write it, or type it — 2007. We aren’t very used to it yet, are we? Did you have to tear up any checks and re-write them because you made an error in writing out the year? Spell it out and it looks like this: two thousand and seven. But no one [...]
Serenissima & Summertime
Category Art, Movies, Travel
The year ended recently. It’s the beginning of a new year. WTF do I talk about? I can’t do a review of the year as I haven’t had this site for a whole year. And I’m not much for predictions or prognostication. Guess I’ll just see where the keyboard and my imagination takes me. I [...]
The Color Red
Category Art, Movies
December is here. St.Louis, Chicago, and Milwaukee already have snow on the ground. Danny DeVito’s movie, Deck The Halls has opened and I’m sure many of you will soon be installing your own Christmas lights on your homes. Yes, Santa Claus is on the way. Let’s have a look at him. He’s got his girth, [...]