The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela is a centuries old trek across northern Spain done by following "The Camino de Santiago", the road to Santiago. Before February of 2001 I had not heard of "The Camino" nor of the Pilgrimage. By the end of October of that year I was in Santiago after completing the walk myself. I thought that when I reached Santiago my journey was over but I see now that my journey started way before I got to Spain and still has not ended.
I found this book (All 668 pages of it.) at ARC the other day and have been working my way through it. I must say Walt Kelly's POGO is one of my favorite comic strips- right up there with George Herriman's Krazy Kat. He was both a great political satirist and a great cartoonist. He took on Senator Joe McCarthy in the early 1950s and turned him into wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey.
Now I can't help wondering what he would have done with Donald Trump.
This photo was the first thing I saw when I clicked on The Hollywood Reporter obituaries page this morning.
My first thought, "Paddington Bear is dead?"
Of course not, it is the creator of Paddington Bear, Michael Bond, who died. The Hollywood Reporter does this a lot- putting up a photo connected in someway to the deceased if they cannot find a photo of the person who has died. If you scroll down on the main obituaries page you will find a photo of eight people, one of them being Bob Hope, on the obituary for ex-child actor Paul De Rolf. Which one is Paul? Don't know, The Hollywood Reporter doesn't tell us. My favorite WTH? photo was the one used when Lawrence Montaigne died. Montaigne was the actor who nearly replaced Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock when Nimoy was thinking of leaving Star Trek between the first and second seasons. Whose photo was used in the article? Yep, Leonard Nimoy. Is it really that hard to find an actual photo of the person who died, Hollywood Reporter?
great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
-Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Britain (1957 to 1963)
Ryan Lochte is everything the world hates about Americans article here.
I entered an art show this weekend. The theme was Frida Kahlo inspired art. Creating my work took more work than I thought and this I found out when I downloaded 53 photos from my camera. I could feel I had it right when I took the fifty-third image.
On February 4, 1946 the comedy play Born Yesterday opened at the Lyceum Theatre in New York City. In the part of Billie Dawn was a newcomer named Judy Holliday. By the end of its run Judy Holliday was a star.
1946 Playbill for Born Yesterday
Judy Holliday around the time she was staring in Born Yesterday on Broadway
In 1947 Columbia pictures paid one million dollars for the screen rights to Born Yesterday. In 1951 Judy Holliday won a Motion Picture Academy Award for Best Leading Actress playing Billie Dawn on the screen in a field that included Bette Davis for All About Eve and Gloria Swanson for Sunset Boulevard. Holliday, a very intelligent woman, was so identified with Billie Dawn, a stereotypical dumb blonde, that when she was summoned by the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security in 1952 to explain why her name was linked to what the committee called "Communist Front Organizations" she was advised to play dumb. Billie Dawn returned to Washington and even though she was cleared by the committee, Holliday was blacklisted from television and radio for three years.
Below is the entire movie version of Born Yesterday staring Judy Holiday, William Holden and Broderick Crawford. This upload is a bit difficult to watch as for some reason the person uploading it has put a spotlight in the center of each frame of the film. If this proves to much for you I suggest you at least watch the Gin game between Billie Dawn (Judy Holliday) and Harry Block (Broderick Crawford) to understand Holliday's appeal and comedic genius.
(The Gin game starts at about 25:33 minutes.)
October 7, 1968, Jose Feliciano sings the National Anthem at the 5th game of the World Series. People are outraged by his bluesy performance and boo after he is finished. He even got death threats at the time.
This is making the facebook rounds. I don't know about you but waking up every morning and thinking this is not comforting to me but disturbing, "Oh, boy, another reprieve!"
The Kin-Der-Kids is a comic strip that was drawn by painter Lyonel Feininger in the early 20th century. In the bathtub are Sherlock Bones, the dog; Strenuous Teddy, a very strong little boy; Daniel Webster, the boy reading the book; Pie-Mouth, the boy with the big appetite; and Little Japansky, the clockwork boy in the back of the tub. Following them in the boat named Gwendoline are Aunt Jim-Jam and her son Gussie. Aunt Jim-Jam is always trying to get the kids to drink their Castor oil.
I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things.
- Lindon Leader
I accidentally let my phone battery die and this is the graphic shown while it charges. Bubbles of electrons at the bottom of the screen rise to fill the battery at the center of the screen. Very mesmerizing.
