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Good Life
I was poking around a bit looking for pages on the Moon Goddess Arete, which Ted hiked to the base of over the weekend and is eager to climb, when I found this simple homepage, which struck me as an example of life lived well.
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Movie: Bull Durham
The ankle injury is finally paying off with some movie reviews. This is a baseball movie that features Kevin Costner. Despite those two strikes against it, it recovers marvelously. Tim Robbins wears garters and breathes through his eyelids while he pitches, sings of wooly women, and survives nights tied up in Susan Sarandon’s bed while…
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Movie: Patton
Probably the best portrait-film I’ve seen. It deftly catches so many facets of the character’s personality, many completely contradictory, that I soon gave in to a sort of overwhelmed oscillation between awe and revulsion. There are great quotes throughout the dialog, lots of maps, convincing battle scenes, poetry, and historical soliloquoies. Definitely a perspective on…
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weekend encounters
So far, resting the ankle has not made life dull. On the contrary, it’s brought some rewarding and unexpected experiences. This weekend’s encounters included new and strange wildflowers, a bear, and a sort of underground superhero.
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Movie: Liam
Well done, but came across to me as a dramatization of stereotypes of depression-era Catholic schools and fascist movements. To this Yankee, the setting in 1930’s Liverpool was totally convincing, more interesting to me than the contrived plot. amazon.com entry
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Roy Orbison in Clingfilm
I don’t really see my blog as a catalog of links of interest, but when a site intrigues me enough that I remember it later and look it up, I think it has influenced my life sufficiently to warrant a log entry. Such is the case with the simple but strangely fascinating Roy Orbison In…
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Nathan Lorenz
My close friend from my school days in Chicago, I’m honored that Nathan will be attending my wedding both as friend and photographer. Nathan and I are not only college chums, we have also wandered Europe and spent many happy hours in some of Chicago’s finer establishments together. Photo alterations by Andy Sheppard, original photo…
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Not Climbing
Ann called me last night and asked me if I’d like a visit – of course I said yes – and she was already in the driveway! Tricksy girl. She’s made the day special and distracted me from the fact that I need to continue resting my ankle and abstaining from climbing. She wants to…
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Big White Guy
This BWG pushes T-shirts featuring himself to finance his stories and pictures about being a giant gwai lo in Hong Kong.
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Spoonerisms
I hadn’t heard this term until somebody caught one in my last post (I had demon- instead of denom-inational, yikes!). My favorite that I’ve committed though was in my fiancee’s parent’s car as we were looking for a place to get ice cream. We passed a shop trying to see if it was open, and…