Monthly Archives: July 2009

Good for What Ails Ya’, Part II

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Stephen

Michelle This, sent along by my daughter. It’s worth watching: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0&hl=en&fs=1&] ———————— Wednesday’s flake turned out to be a case of the model writing down the wrong date/time for our session. We’ve rescheduled. (I’m really quite reasonable in that regard.) … Continue reading →

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Palin — Our Next Poet Laureate?

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Stephen

Allison 28 As mentioned some time ago, we don’t watch The Tonight Show any more. Just doesn’t connect with us. However, a nephew provided this video link related to Sarah Palin’s recent comments, which is hilarious: ———————— Yesterday’s scheduled model … Continue reading →

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Busy, Busy

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Stephen

Ashley Vamps 6 (Posting a little late this morning, since I had a 9 a.m. med lab appointment to have blood drawn, preliminary to a six-month doc’s checkup next week. Nothing to eat beforehand, of course, but then afterward I … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 28, 2009 by Stephen

Brooke’s Exercise 11 We’re back, but this will be brief. Sixty hours of no Internet (the Internet-enabled coffee shop in Beulah said the entire community was down — in any case I had to wait until arrival last night to … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 25, 2009 by Stephen

Chicks Outtake 5 Survived the trip’s first leg. Arrived in Lansing (MI) 10 p.m. last night. Made it from Rockford, IL, to the I-90/I-80/I-94 junction east of Gary, IN, in three hours (141 miles) I think that’s pretty good. Did … Continue reading →

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My Video Odyssey

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Stephen

Renate Yesterday started normally. Out of bed. Walk to my office (next door to the master bedroom). Turn on the computer. Snow! I have snow on my monitor. (Well, not literally “on,” but rather the screen is showing the wallpaper … Continue reading →

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Dead Calm

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Stephen

Hands 4 Yesterday evening was one of those out-of-body experiences I’m sure some among you have had. Yesterday a couple of the local law firms sponsored a “Wine Mess” for alumni of my law school. “Wine Mess” was a Friday … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 22, 2009 by Stephen

Victoria and Fabrics 27 Mark your calendars for my next show, “Street Photography Around the World,” at Hopkins Center for the Arts (click to enlarge): Opening Reception 6 p.m. on September 17. ———— Yesterday I had a brief and — … Continue reading →

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A Simulcrum of Past Reality

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Stephen

Terpsichore Yesterday I had to remind myself that it wasn’t real. Listening to the real-time rebroadcast of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, it seemed all too lifelike, as if Armstrong and Aldrin were actually going there for the first time. … Continue reading →

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A Walk on the Moon

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Stephen

TammiRose Today I’ll do something that’s been forty years in preparation: I’ll listen to the landing on the Moon. NASA is streaming the Earth-Apollo radio transmissions in real time. I was in Vietnam forty years ago and neither heard nor … Continue reading →

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