To state the obvious, yesterday was the last day of the month — the 28th! And this event, a month ending on the 28th, is the norm for February for three out of every four years. Somehow that 29th day, in the year when it happened, came to be called Leap Year. Anyone know why?
Back in 1933, movie greats Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were teamed up for the first time. The movie was entitled Flying Down to Rio. While the all the principals from that movie have passed on, the idea has not. In nine days, AoV hits the skyways again. When I touch down, my taxi will be taking me to Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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.
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 In Viet Nam because your family suffered a loss of a loved one in that conflict.
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, the icy grip of Nature is keeping most of us indoors for extended periods. And if you do venture out, Jack Frost will definitely be nipping at your nose. Today’s date, January 29th, is almost the 1st of February, which marks the beginning of everyone’s least favorite month.
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 recently rented a film from the deep dark past. I mention it now, as some of you, like me, are experiencing the cold while we live in the midst of that season known as winter.
It is Labor Day Weekend. All along the east coast of the Mid-Atlantic States of the USA, people await the storm called Ernesto as it heads northeast. I am steps from the Hudson River, and on my TV, at Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx, the rain is already beginning to fall. It is 8:20 PM on Friday, September1st.
(above) One man water taxi on a Burmese River
(above) Upain Bridge, Mandalay by Tin Tun Hlaing
No doubt, around this part of the country, people will be wishing they were somewhere else, or hoping they will get through the next few days without having to face a deluge of rain for the long holiday weekend which marks the unofficial end of summer.
(Below) Lake Ferry, Myanmar
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