gibbins-weidenhagen gambit

Melanie has had the cable music channel on light classical a lot lately, & one of the things they do is give a picture & a couple of sentences of biography about the composers. I like this picture they use of Rachmaninoff in a fedora. I think he looks like either a gangster or a french novelist.

Texas tracking.

"When men feel weakness increasing on them they naturally desire to rest from the struggles of contradiction, the fatigue of reasoning, the anxiety of circumspection; when they are hourly tormented with pain and diseases, they are unable to bear any new disturbance, and consider all opposition as an addition to misery, of which they feel already more than they can patiently endure." --The Rambler, 162

"I didn’t expect Britney Spears to call for a socialist uprising, but here we are."

video of crowds
so far in the past it seems
walk around the pool
look up at the dull gray sky
ev'ry knoll the grassy knoll

Plone.

"Free playing is the nest in the rafters, and we're chirping our love of the earth. Chased out, we just build the nest somewhere else." --Jack Wright on fb