Persephone Books' image-heavy blog is just as fun as their website!
I have read several of their books and, not only have I enjoyed the individual stories, but holding the sturdy, creamy paperbacks in my hands was a distinct pleasure in-and-of-itself.
Oh, to have the funds for their book subscription!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
Golly! Just put it on vibrate!
Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig stop their performance for rude theatergoers.
Good morning to everyone! Genna and I are glad to be back home and are sorry we were unable to post while abroad. Turns out we didn't have the internet connection we had anticipated. Genna transported to Paris a very heavy and elaborate ipod charger :-)
Inspired by our trip, I am trying to collect titles to movies having to do with France in some way. They might take place there, be filmed there, have to do with some part of French history, geography or French culture. In particular we are interested in those having to do with Paris. We hope to watch them in order to "extend the experience" and learn some more in a fun way.
So far we have the following compiled by the Walkers, Genna and I:
French Kiss
Charade
How to Steal a Million
Marie Antoinette (with Norma Shearer)
Desiree
Scarlet Pimpernel
Day of the Jackal
Bourne Identity
Man in the Iron Mask
Three Musketeers
Gigi
Anyone have any more to add?
Love to all,
Karen
Inspired by our trip, I am trying to collect titles to movies having to do with France in some way. They might take place there, be filmed there, have to do with some part of French history, geography or French culture. In particular we are interested in those having to do with Paris. We hope to watch them in order to "extend the experience" and learn some more in a fun way.
So far we have the following compiled by the Walkers, Genna and I:
French Kiss
Charade
How to Steal a Million
Marie Antoinette (with Norma Shearer)
Desiree
Scarlet Pimpernel
Day of the Jackal
Bourne Identity
Man in the Iron Mask
Three Musketeers
Gigi
Anyone have any more to add?
Love to all,
Karen
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Irving Kristol, 1920-2009
I'm sure we've all been reading the tributes to Irving Kristol since his death on September 18th. And many of them are well worth reading. But, this tribute is, of course, the best.
Friday, September 25, 2009
A precarious pink-eyed shadow...
The Telegraph selects twenty of Dan Brown's more egregious examples of amateurism.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Shakespeare Master Class: An Actor Prepares
I'm going through my annual Shakespeare fixation and reading and watching a lot of earnest analysis. This seems more than usually apt.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Kings Dominion
Here are some pictures from the Kings Dominion trip! These are the "favorites;" the Dominator and the Volcano.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Bernard Hepton
In my musing over the early Mansfield Park adaptation, I stumbled across an interview that may be of interest to certain people...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Back from California
Back from my trip to California - it was a great trip! I enjoyed spending time with those 'wild' Gildeas - who are all a great deal less wild than they used to be (or than they would like to think they are now).
Patrick was a ton of fun and Audrey's house is gorgeous!
Saw Uncle Rich & sundry of his children. Had a little lunch with Stojan & Janja - and if you believe that, I have a bridge in San Francisco I'd like you to take a look at.....
Missed the fires - although you can see the flames and plenty of the smoke from Patrick's aerie.
Star of the Sea
One, two, three:
Happy Birthday to You,
Happy Birthday to You,
Happy Birthday dearest Mother of God,
Happy Birthday to You!!!
Happy Birthday to You,
Happy Birthday to You,
Happy Birthday dearest Mother of God,
Happy Birthday to You!!!
Monday, September 7, 2009
Hyacinth
St. Hyacinth
Dominican, called the Apostle of the North, son of Eustachius Konski of the noble family of Odrowaz; born 1185 at the castle of Lanka, at Kamin, in Silesia, Poland (now Prussia); died 15 August, 1257, at Cracow. Feast, 16 Aug. A near relative of Saint Ceslaus, he made his studies at Cracow, Prague, and Bologna, and at the latter place merited the title of Doctor of Law and Divinity. On his return to Poland he was given a prebend at Sandomir. He subsequently accompanied his uncle Ivo Konski, the Bishop of Cracow, to Rome, where he met St. Dominic, and was one of the first to receive at his hands (at Santa Sabina, 1220) the habit of the newly established Order of Friars Preachers. After his novitiate he made his religious profession, and was made superior of the little band of missionaries sent to Poland to preach. On the way he was able to establish a convent of his order at Friesach in Carinthia. In Poland the new preachers were favourably received and their sermons were productive of much good. Hyacinth founded communities at Sandomir, Cracow, and at Plocko on the Vistula in Moravia. He extended his missionary work through Prussia, Pomerania, and Lithuania; then crossing the Baltic Sea he preached in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. He came into Lower or Red Russia, establishing a community at Lemberg and at Haletz on the Mester; proceeded into Muscovy, and founded a convent at Dieff, and came as far as the shores of the Black Sea. He then returned to Cracow, which he had made the centre of his operations. On the morning of 15 August he attended Matins and Mass, received the last sacraments, and died a saintly death. God glorified His servant by numberless miracles, the record of which fills many folio pages of the Acta SS., August, III, 309. He was canonized by Pope Clement VIII in 1594. A portion of his relics is at the Dominican church in Paris.
Popular depictions of him include the following:
Dominican, called the Apostle of the North, son of Eustachius Konski of the noble family of Odrowaz; born 1185 at the castle of Lanka, at Kamin, in Silesia, Poland (now Prussia); died 15 August, 1257, at Cracow. Feast, 16 Aug. A near relative of Saint Ceslaus, he made his studies at Cracow, Prague, and Bologna, and at the latter place merited the title of Doctor of Law and Divinity. On his return to Poland he was given a prebend at Sandomir. He subsequently accompanied his uncle Ivo Konski, the Bishop of Cracow, to Rome, where he met St. Dominic, and was one of the first to receive at his hands (at Santa Sabina, 1220) the habit of the newly established Order of Friars Preachers. After his novitiate he made his religious profession, and was made superior of the little band of missionaries sent to Poland to preach. On the way he was able to establish a convent of his order at Friesach in Carinthia. In Poland the new preachers were favourably received and their sermons were productive of much good. Hyacinth founded communities at Sandomir, Cracow, and at Plocko on the Vistula in Moravia. He extended his missionary work through Prussia, Pomerania, and Lithuania; then crossing the Baltic Sea he preached in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. He came into Lower or Red Russia, establishing a community at Lemberg and at Haletz on the Mester; proceeded into Muscovy, and founded a convent at Dieff, and came as far as the shores of the Black Sea. He then returned to Cracow, which he had made the centre of his operations. On the morning of 15 August he attended Matins and Mass, received the last sacraments, and died a saintly death. God glorified His servant by numberless miracles, the record of which fills many folio pages of the Acta SS., August, III, 309. He was canonized by Pope Clement VIII in 1594. A portion of his relics is at the Dominican church in Paris.
Popular depictions of him include the following:
Saturday, September 5, 2009
WHY CAN NO ONE WRITE AN E-MAIL CORRECTLY?!?!?!?!
WHY CAN NO ONE WRITE AN E-MAIL CORRECTLY?!?!?!?!
1. Everyone has to throw in some emoticons >: (
2. Everyone has TO constantly USES improper grammar
3. Everyone has to spel improperley
4. Everyone has to caPitalIze raNdom LeTtErs
5. everyone has to leave out capitals that should be there, even in country names, like
6. Everyone has to put in >>RANDOM, PUN(TUAT10N`~!!!
7. Everyone has to put random tabs everywhere
8. Everyone ignores proper salutations and closings!
9. Everybody, like, uses, like, the same, like, basic words, like again, and again, and again.
Why can't the Americans learn to write right?
SOLUTIONS:
1. If you can’t express emotion with your vocabulary, why should we consider little faces as expressive?
2. Why do you think it’s called GRAMMAR SCHOOL? So you can play hooky during arithmetic?
3. If you can’t spell it, you shouldn’t be saying it. And therefore, if you can’t spell anything…
4. The rules of capitalization didn’t change with the invention of the internet. (By the way, never capitalize “internet”; it’s much the same as “government”. Any attempt to spell “government” with a capital G will bring about Tolkien’s premature resurrection, and subsequent beatings by said zombie)
5. See above.
6. The point of punctuation is to PUNCTUATE your words: ergo, it clearly demarcates the sentences and phrases.
7. Consult my sister for the rules on tabs. Bottom line, THEY SHOULD NOT BE USED IN EMAILS, EXCEPT TO MARK NEW PARAGRAPHS!
8. The best way to learn the proper salutations and closings for e-mails is to research, in any good English grammar book, the proper salutations and closings for LETTERS. As in HAND-WRITTEN letters! It’s still the same, even online. Check it out: E-MAIL. It is still mail, although electronically transmitted.
9. I must confess, I too use redundant vocabulary. I also am not impervious to the detrimental exhibitions of the modern age.
To close: in drafting this rather lengthy missive, my title was read by Eleanor. She discovered a rather ironic fact: I had written “why can no one RIGHT an e-mail correctly.” And so, I humbly subside in my tirade of textual typos.
But still, the question remains: Why can’t the English learn to speak, and why can’t the Americans learn to write?
Thursday, September 3, 2009
I have to do who to the what now?
I don't know why they still send me posts and updates about this.....
Apparently, after a time it's all about what they deserve.
Given their recent liberal attempt to indoctrinate and their insensitive flubs, I wouldn't give them the time of day if they asked for it and I was the only person on the earth with a watch. Take that whatever your names are!
But, the thing that boils me the most. The thing that puts my socks in bunches. That one thing that makes me despise and loath everything that comes from that disgusting channel would have to be: their name change.
I'm sorry, but it is an unforgivable revamp. You might as well change the logo to a little pink fairy with pixie dust coming out of its wand.
Apparently, after a time it's all about what they deserve.
Given their recent liberal attempt to indoctrinate and their insensitive flubs, I wouldn't give them the time of day if they asked for it and I was the only person on the earth with a watch. Take that whatever your names are!
But, the thing that boils me the most. The thing that puts my socks in bunches. That one thing that makes me despise and loath everything that comes from that disgusting channel would have to be: their name change.
I'm sorry, but it is an unforgivable revamp. You might as well change the logo to a little pink fairy with pixie dust coming out of its wand.
A long time ago...about 30 years.
It would seem that despite all of George Lucas's hard work, people still wanted to make this story from long, long ago part of Americana history
Mostly, I must protest Harry Ford's participation in this. But, after Firewall I believe that nothing is too low for the man.
Mostly, I must protest Harry Ford's participation in this. But, after Firewall I believe that nothing is too low for the man.
The "Inartful" Dodger
Turns out the White House isn't going to fit American schoolchildren up for brownshirts ...just yet.
Although, as the brilliant and sexy Mark Steyn pointed out yesterday while sitting in for Rush: children are being indoctrinated with liberal agitprop EVERY DAY in the public schools. Obama was/is simply carrying on a longstanding NEA tradition.
Although, as the brilliant and sexy Mark Steyn pointed out yesterday while sitting in for Rush: children are being indoctrinated with liberal agitprop EVERY DAY in the public schools. Obama was/is simply carrying on a longstanding NEA tradition.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
September 1, 1939
by George J. Marlin
Seventy years ago today, Adolf Hitler started the most horrendous war in the history of mankind by ordering the German Wehrmacht to invade and conquer Poland. The Polish army fought valiantly but they were no match for Germany’s sixty-five highly mechanized divisions and 1.8-million troops. By the time Polish resistance ended on October 5, 200,000 Poles were dead or wounded and 400,000 were taken prisoner. But the invasion also set in motion a moral battle that led to the global moral leadership of John Paul II and the Catholic Church’s rise as an institution opposed to all forms of political religion.
Hitler, who despised Poland and held that all Poles were subhuman, ordered his invading army to kill “without pity or mercy, all men, women and children of Polish descent or language.” In the first thirty days of occupation, the Wehrmacht destroyed 531 towns and villages and murdered over 16,000 civilians. Hitler’s aim was more than expanding Germany’s borders; he wanted the “annihilation of living forces” by means of extermination and enslavement. “All Poles,” Heinrich Himmler declared, “will disappear from the world.” The Nazi Governor General of Poland, Hans Frank, told his henchmen: “The Pole has no rights whatsoever. . . . A major goal of our plan is to finish off as speedily as possible all troublemaking politicians, priests, and leaders who fall into our hands. I openly admit that some thousands of so-called important Poles will have to pay with their lives. . . .Every vestige of Polish culture is to be eliminated. Those Poles who seem to have Nordic appearances will be taken to Germany to work in our factories. . . .The rest? They will work. They will eat little. And in the end they will die out. There will never again be a Poland.”
(Read the rest of this chilling yet breathtaking piece.)
Seventy years ago today, Adolf Hitler started the most horrendous war in the history of mankind by ordering the German Wehrmacht to invade and conquer Poland. The Polish army fought valiantly but they were no match for Germany’s sixty-five highly mechanized divisions and 1.8-million troops. By the time Polish resistance ended on October 5, 200,000 Poles were dead or wounded and 400,000 were taken prisoner. But the invasion also set in motion a moral battle that led to the global moral leadership of John Paul II and the Catholic Church’s rise as an institution opposed to all forms of political religion.
Hitler, who despised Poland and held that all Poles were subhuman, ordered his invading army to kill “without pity or mercy, all men, women and children of Polish descent or language.” In the first thirty days of occupation, the Wehrmacht destroyed 531 towns and villages and murdered over 16,000 civilians. Hitler’s aim was more than expanding Germany’s borders; he wanted the “annihilation of living forces” by means of extermination and enslavement. “All Poles,” Heinrich Himmler declared, “will disappear from the world.” The Nazi Governor General of Poland, Hans Frank, told his henchmen: “The Pole has no rights whatsoever. . . . A major goal of our plan is to finish off as speedily as possible all troublemaking politicians, priests, and leaders who fall into our hands. I openly admit that some thousands of so-called important Poles will have to pay with their lives. . . .Every vestige of Polish culture is to be eliminated. Those Poles who seem to have Nordic appearances will be taken to Germany to work in our factories. . . .The rest? They will work. They will eat little. And in the end they will die out. There will never again be a Poland.”
(Read the rest of this chilling yet breathtaking piece.)
The Obama Youth Brigade
"Write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president."
Like, informing on their parents?
Like, informing on their parents?
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