Cuba has digitized Hemingway
Cuba has digitized thousands of documents that writer Ernest Hemingway kept at his Cuban home, making them available electronically for the first time on Monday. - cbc.ca
From 1920 to 1924 Hemingway wrote for the Toronto Star.
Warming the cockles o’ my heart
If only it were this simple:
A South Philadelphia man enraged because a family was talking during a Christmas showing of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button decided to deal with the situation by shooting the father, police said. — philly.com, Barbara Boyer
Admit it, you’ve wanted to do that too, haven’t you?
Now perhaps at least one family will stay home when they want a nice fireside chat.
Don’t question anything to do with one God but God
Mexico ridden right
Contrary to this guy and his wrong-way Corrigan Mexico motorcycle trip, Scotty Kerekes, a long-time rider and old Mexico hand, knows how to do it right. Ignore the typos, and you’ll understand what I’m talking about. I’ll listen and read about Scotty’s adventures before those of almost anyone else.
Scotty used to have a web site a few years ago, but it’s long gone now as he continues to ride across North America and Mexico on his overloaded bagger. Occasionally, he’ll stop long enough to write something and post it on the web, usually with photos.
Link to Scotty’s Mexican winter adventure here.
The $54 million pants? Not so much.
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Judge Roy Bean, err, Judge Pearson, who sued his Korean dry cleaner for 54 million dollars over a pair of missing pants, finally got his ass handed to him when his suit (minus the pants) was recently thrown out in Washington District’s highest court.
In June of 2007, when Pearson lost his first lawsuit against the dry cleaning store, he also lost his job because “his lawsuit showed bad judgment and reflected poorly on the city.”
Amen to that, brother.
Link to article here.
Link to my initial post here.
Update: This guy has a real obsession going on. Just this month (January, 2009), he filed another petition, this time with the full nine-judge D.C. Court of Appeals, whining that the three-judge panel in the previous ruling didn’t didn’t address all of the issues in his appeal.
What a mockery of the court system — although there’s really nothing new in that.
R.I.P. Bettie Page
Bettie was remarkable for the contribution she made to the sexual revolution. Although her photos were taken mostly in the ’50s, she certainly was a part of the revolution by way of the display of her photos in military barracks and garages. She endured harassment, mental illness, multiple unsuccessful marriages and time spent in an orphanage as a child but managed to persevere through all of it.
Thank you, Bettie.
Promise
Jack Kennedy held out the promise of a new generation of enlightenment, but he didn’t get to finish the deal. His untimely demise, 45 years ago today, shocked and saddened us all. Whether for good or bad, his legacy lived on for too few years under another administration’s hopes and dreams.
Now, a new administration has presented us with a promise of hope during a much-different time. While there may be very few parallels to be drawn between the Obama and Kennedy administrations that are appropriate for today, I for one do believe that the beginning of a new era of enlightenment has taken hold. Only time will tell whether I am right or wrong.
Hope springs eternal.
Congratulations President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama
Here’s hoping the good will generated by his election continues well into the future.
Bronco busting
I almost didn’t see this sculpture, given its distance from the highway and its color that matched the background where it was placed. Having caught it out of the corner of my eye, but traveling too fast to stop, I instead pulled in on my way north.
The sculptor is Bob Scriver, and the sculpture is a version of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s official belt buckle. Helena’s Montana Historical Society has a bronze version.
Trolls ‘r’ us
Here’s an addendum to my original post on internet trolls.
The New York Times online has a seven page discourse on modern-day trolls and their absurdities. From that article you’ll find that trolls have graduated to an ever more mean and hateful presence, even making fun of and encouraging suicide.
Even if you only get as far as the first page, you’ll find it enlightening and disheartening.
Link to full New York Times article here.
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