Excerpt: “Personally, I can’t see where the difficulty in choosing suitable presents lies. No boy who had brought himself up properly could fail to appreciate one of those decorative bottles of liqueurs that are so reverently staged in Morel’s window…. People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity; the religious system that produced […]
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“Television is a vast wasteland “applied to current efforts to limit Internet access; Woody Allen makes a guest appearance
In 1961 the FCC Chairman, Newton Minnow, gave a scathing speech at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention calling television “a vast wasteland.” Last week, in the tradition of Newton Minnow’s “television is a vast wasteland” speech, the new and exciting Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler delivered his visionary plan to ensure access […]
December motto plus optional isolation
Dr. Jeniffer Simon, a caring and experienced urologist, Geissinger Medical Center, State College PA showed me on her computer this image–a cancerous tumor surrounding my right kidney, referring me to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. “Unless you have surgery quickly, you will be dead in 10 years.” The date: April 5, 2013, […]
Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro, a Day of Madness,” Cherubino overture on the delight of love
Cherubino is a valet to the evil Count. The Count is trying to assert his “right” to sleep with the bride before her wedding day. First there is a scene in which the groom is evaluating the bed on which he will deflower his bride. Afterward: “Cherubino arrives…describing his emerging infatuation with all women, particularly […]
Shania Twain Tribute 2
“It girl is a term for a young woman who possesses the quality It, absolute attraction. “The early usage of the concept it in this meaning may be seen in a story by Rudyard Kipling: ‘It isn’t beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just It.’ “Elinor Glyn lectured: “‘With It you win all men if you […]
Why country music helped me survive cancer
This posting is a tribute to Shania Twain Reigning queen of country music Sexiest female performer in the history of country music Writer of astonishingly intimate songs telling men what women want sexually and otherwise Mentor to a talented array of female country musicians with a strong feminist agenda There is a video where Shania […]
“Carolina in my mind” plus Mebane: Wedding site
Of course, it is impossible to think of North Carolina without hearing James Taylor singing: “Carolina in my mind.” ++++ When I lived in New York City, the song lyric reverberating through the skyscrapers was, “If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.” ++++ North Carolina, as you can see from the […]
Having 11 children is likely to wear a woman out
“There is some debate as to the year of Hooker’s birth in Coahoma County, Mississippi, the youngest of the eleven children of William Hooker a sharecropper and Baptist preacher, and Minnie Ramsey (born 1875, date of death unknown [but, I bet, she was all wore out at the time {(My suggestion to Wikipedia)};according to his official website, he was born […]