Month: November 2008
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Sunset Boulevard and Cocteau's Orphee
(Note: Originally placed online 2000. Am migrating it over here from another section of the website.) “I put him on the massage table in front of the fire. He always liked fires, and poking at them with a stick.”Norma Desmond–“Sunset Blvd” My son is two and a half years of age. He is standing in…
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"Red Rain" and the Japanese fire balloon that coincidentally found its way to Hanford
Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings Susan Och over at French Road Connections, who recently ran for and was voted into community service (congratulations, Susan), today has a post on a new book written by her brother, Tim Wendel. Titled Red Rain, the novel took its inspiration from fire balloons…
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Notes on “Cimarron”
Not too too long ago we happened to catch on television the 1931 “Cimarron”, based on a popular book by Edna Ferber which romanticized the opening of Oklahoma Indian Territory to white settlement, her characters migrating from Wichita Kansas to the Osage, Oklahoma, obviously a fictitious rendering of Pawhuska. I’ve not read the book but…
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Fish at the Georgia Aquarium
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Skyscrapers Viewed from the Georgia Aquarium
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Coca-Cola Museum Viewed from the Georgia Aquarium
Coca-Cola Museum Viewed from the Georgia Aquarium Enlargement We see also the Ernst and Young building, the W downtown hotel; Twelve Centennial Park building, the Emory Crawford Long Hospital in Midtown.
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Fish at the Georgia Aquarium
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Catfish
Georgia Aquarium Catfish Nov 2008 A nice behind-the-scenes article on the Georgia Aquarium at How Stuff Works.