Sunday 8 May 2011
blรผmchen
Sometimes they are called umbrella plants but I call it a big old mall tree, for the potted tropical vegetation one finds larger shopping galleries. They have no fragrance and these little grape-like clusters have just now bloomed but I will have to monitor them. It seems strange that such a lush plant has maybe anticlimactic blossoms, while a creeping, fuzzy desert plant would put forth such a performance.
catagories: ๐ต, environment, holidays and observances
casting czar
Remember that Barry Levinson film Wag the Dog? It was masterfully done and presented some uncomfortable questions about spin and public policy. I think it was not allowed to become such a phenomenon in the States or linger very long in sniping short-hand because of the eruption of events of the conflict in Kosovo and America’s role in it.
catagories: ๐ฌ, ๐ง , foreign policy, holidays and observances
Tuesday 3 May 2011
look at books
Because we needed a fitting subject for our chrome and marble bookends to frame and we needed to balance our library with something in addition to the Bible (Der Heilige Schrift, the holy book) that H found from 1911, beautifully bound and with a running family chronicle through the 1990s of births and deaths and marriages, I stumbled across these two volumes, art nouveau, and the compendium of doctoring—Bilz’ (EN/DE) das neue Naturheilverfahren, new natural healing techniques.
Monday 2 May 2011
night on bald mountain
catagories: ๐ฉ๐ช, ๐, environment, travel
who invited debbie downer or not merely dead but really, most sincerely dead
catagories: ๐ฅธ, ๐ง , America, foreign policy