05 Mar 2007
by JustMeMikein Movies, Travel
It’s the dead of winter, and we’re just back indoors from one bone-numbingly cold day in Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin. The low was -8 degrees and the high was +1. I think the place is misnamed. Maybe it should be called Ice County. I’ll need to warm up, so this will have to wait until a sunny and much warmer day.
It is now a week later and I find myself in a different place and a much warmer temperature. About Door County, oh, it wasn’t all bad. We occupied a huge corner room with a fireplace and a Jacuzzi bathtub, a 50-inch High Def plasma TV, and a deluxe king-size bed in an elegant B & B. Yeah, could’ve been a lot worse.
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01 Mar 2007
by JustMeMikein Discussion, Movies, Travel
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?
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27 Feb 2007
by JustMeMikein Art, Travel
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.
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16 Feb 2007
by JustMeMikein 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.
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10 Feb 2007
by JustMeMikein 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 In Viet Nam because your family suffered a loss of a loved one in that conflict.
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29 Jan 2007
by JustMeMikein 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, 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.
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