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In Pima Air & Space Museum news, I’m ready to certify as a walking tour docent, but no one’s available to bless me until the 15th. Knowing me, given two weeks to prepare I’ll cram so hard I’ll blow my certification tour by mixing up facts & figures for different airplanes or going off on […]
What’s interesting about the conceptual sculpture in the photo is that it was made of books that had been banned by Argentina’s recently-overthrown junta. The sculpture stood in a downtown Buenos Aires square for three weeks, after which the public was invited to dismantle it … and keep the books. How cool is that? More […]
Guess I haven’t been paying attention. I thought the issue of unwanted religious proselytizing at the US Air Force Academy came up, and had been dealt with, during the first George W. Bush administration. But a friend sent me a link to a military-issues blog post that says it’s still going on and is as […]
It’s what’s for breakfast. Life is good. On Saturday, we attended an opulent wedding and reception. Our friends have married off three daughters and a son, and any one of those weddings would have bankrupted us. We love our friends and are delighted they can send their children off in such great style … god […]
I led my first tour at the Pima Air and Space Museum this morning. How’d it go? Pretty well, I think. My friend Frank brought a group of 25 wedding guests to the museum this morning. It wasn’t an “official” tour with regular air museum guests … my first one of those is next Wednesday […]
Clearly, blog output has an inverse relationship to fun. What’s got my fun meter pegged? My first solo tour at the Pima Air & Space Museum, now less than 24 hours away. I’ve been cramming: memorizing facts about aircraft ancient and modern, deciding which planes to skip over and which to concentrate on, finding a […]
“We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.” — M.T. Anderson, Feed Zero Station, by Amanda Hamm I mistakenly downloaded this to read on my Nook. Billed as a novella, it isn’t even a short story … more like a pitch for a story idea. A good […]
“You just got your ass handed to you by a goddamned retiree! ” — Rebecca Pidgeon as Cynthia Wilkes in Red The Kids Are All Right (2010) I don’t doubt this movie drives right-wingers, evangelicals, and all the other homophobes crazy, but you know what? It’s a great film about family, full of heart, and […]