Oh, Sandy, the aurora is rising behind us
Panoramic view of the riverside near where Albino held its fireworks display. That's not anybody I know on the dock. To the right of the dock was a frog who was noisy enough before all the fireworks started.
And that's what the fireworks looked like. I didn't realize there were people watching from their canoes at night, but I guess that worked out for them.
And back at my parents-in-law they set off a whole mess of firecrackers in a tradition that is utterly alien to my way of thinking. I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just used to not making things explode.
Is my humor blog on your Friends page? It could be. Go ahead and check. Is it on your RSS feed? I don't know, do we have RSS readers anymore? If you missed it all the past week, try this:
- iTunes, At Sixteen, this week's big piece and a peek ahead at the future of this sullen teenager software.
- Caption This: Forgotten In The Delta Quadrant, something you can't un-see from Star Trek: Voyager. That would be Ray Walston, playing an alien who's playing Ray Walston, Star Fleet Academy Gardener.
- Franklin P Adams: The Dictaphone Bard, some poetry dictated.
- Nothing Is Happening In Apartment 3-G Update: Did Something Happen in Apartment 3-G? The answer may surprise you! If Apartment 3-G can ever be said to surprise.
- The Worm In The Ear. Plus: Sock Simplicity Update. Just, you know, what's happening.
- Statistics Saturday: How Many Good Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation I Figured There Were Versus Time. Look, it was very important in 1988 to insist that some of these episodes were good.
- Krazy Kat visits an Amusement Park, Chased By A Bull. From the 60s cartoons, although they're not bad ones to look at.
- The Origin Of The Specious, last week's major piece. It's about trivia, and why we have it.
As ever, thank you.
Trivia: No letters or journals of John Cabot's first, 1497, voyage to the new world survive (if any ever existed). Source: The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map that Gave America its Name, Toby Lester.
Currently Reading: Austerity Britain, 1945 - 1951, David Kynaston.