^{(Not really Spanish; it's Google.)}

"LATKE RECIPE

Directions: It is your job to make the potato latkes for a Hanukkah party." (Bubele, I'm talking to you sweetie.) "Unfortunately, your cousin Howie found the recipe first and changed it to play a joke on you. Before you can begin cooking, you must… Read full post »

Many of you, the savvy readers of these pages, have been supportive beyond a person's wildest expectations. And the thing which resonates for me is that I have eschewed the "social networking" aspects of this place and still something akin to that has happened. I'm posting two images before the wordi… Read full post »

The dedicated pundit you know me to be is on guard for those moments when a sidetrack from the world according to me at that particular moment is boldly being flaunted on the flat-panel, up for which real sheckels have been coughed. (Back at you Winston.)

WISDOM:  Open Salon is open mic night for those who can appreciate the negative connotations of "open mic night."

TIP:  With an iffy or just plain slow connection, you can pause a YouTube video right after it starts playing, let the red progress bar get well ahead of the position marker… Read full post »

I grew up near the Pulaski Skyway, a span which leads one from the noxious odors of The Garden State which claimed my youth to the city where if you can make it etc., etc.

I have a toaster with stamped homages to girders and rivets.

We… Read full post »

Should I wait for weepy wednesday?

Or just write it while it's fresh

Glad you just checked in to say

You'd crossed the wilderness

We have cell phones in the forest

That's a sign of changing times

Made it back to find your truck

And called to ease my mind… Read full post »

Photoshop is an enormous program, standalone or in a suite. Some people install it and then feel daunted by it's complexity. Perhaps a favorite filter here and there but then the freebie software that came along with the camera seems to do just fine.

Operating systems, especially Macs I hear,… Read full post »

I'm in the sixth stage of grief I fear: cloying sentimentality at the loss of valued fellow bloggers.

I don't know if that requires a hanky, a bib or a bucket, but it sure has me wanting to work through the process before my next refill, er, the next full… Read full post »

This is my thirty-seventh post in a non-neverending series called "Maybe They Want Kitties." (That's an in-joke because my most super lame post ever made it to the COVER! - is there a bigger font? - TWICE!)

Martha, get the Kinisin!

(Don't worry folks, we was just ACTIN'! And… Read full post »

I wonder sometimes how many people share in a wont for reason in our politics?

Though often outside the mainstream I've found and can articulate positions on many issues which are consistent, a plus in that paradigm. Given a forum where reason prevails, I'm confident that I or (more likely)… Read full post »

Half the trouble we get ourselves into as a country seems more attributable to our national attention deficit than the once normal range of vicissitudes.

Yes, the world has handed us more thorny problems of late, but only the die-hard chauvinists among us refuse the rest of us the right… Read full post »

I spent some time down the hill at our old stomping ground a while back and posted a photo-essay. Several "friendorites" asked to hear more backstory about how we came to live in the cabin at Paxton Springs.

Here goes.

Hope I don't grind the gears.

How… Read full post »

Doh!

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Happy New Year Read full post »

^{_{King Wen's decision}}

Falling away

Unfavorable to have somewhere to go

^{_{Confucious' commentary on that decision}}

Falling away is decaying.
The yielding want to change the firm.
Unfavorable to have somewhere to go
Little fellows are growing and extending.

Act in accordance with the… Read full post »

This all was built since I've been here;

I can't pretend to know this sphere.

Though it's a 'never mind' you know?

Their signatory line is clear.

My humble camera caught this shot:

An alien's eye is what it's got.

This dome of gold and white so grand...

And I… Read full post »

On the 12th day of Christmas my true love sent to me...

12 Mummers Strummin'

Eleven Bikers Ridin'

Ten Pints of Hoisin

Nine Babies Dancin'

Eight Meds A-Mixin'

Seven Sponsors Bailin'

Six Geezers Weighin' In

&nb… Read full post »

Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms and clear mountain mornings,
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night

Dirt roads and white lines and all kinds of stop signs,
But I stand right here where I'm at,
'Cause I wear My Own Kind Of… Read full post »

Some of you know that I have been learning the ins and outs of a Sony (descended from Minolta) digital single lens reflex camera and now that my Photoshop is upgraded to where I can use their beta camera raw plug-in, I've been leaning toward the photo essay lately. Wind chills… Read full post »