Galena, IL – Wall Signs Before the Interstate highways and the resulting billboards came along wall signs such as the one above were the primary means for a business to advertise. It made me want to have a drink at … Continue reading Wall Signs
Here is an interesting wind mill we found on an experimental farm in Canada a few summers ago. Surprisingly it is an as-is photo…. Continue reading Wind Mill
Being an old country boy I have not been exposed to too much graffiti in my life but we did visit some areas in our recent NYC trip where it was plentiful. Some of it was very lavish and sophisticated, some of it quite crude. That got me to thinking that isn’t graffiti just modern-day folk art? Maybe we should be preserving it instead of painting it over? I kind of think of graffiti as some young men’s (and I’m sure women’s) creative outlet. The big art studios and such won’t hire them because they don’t have a “proper” education … Continue reading Its Not Graffiti, Its Folk Art…
I have always been fascinated by science generated computer art. I hope to be able to do something similar to this one day. Continue reading Physics Is Beautiful
Trenton, NJ — Crossing the Delaware The picture above hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The victory at Trenton signaled a new life for the War for Independence. Likewise it signals a new direction for this … Continue reading A New Start…
Happy New Years…. May this year bring you peace and enjoyment and fulfill all your expectations. Continue reading Happy New Year…
Washington DC – Resigning His commission Lets finish up this year with the famous picture as described below. It hang in one of the many galleries in DC. Here is what the government website says about it:13 The painting General … Continue reading The Resignation…
Out With The Old, In With The New May you get a little fruit of the Spirit in 2015 Continue reading Wishing you a Happy New Years….
Indianapolis, IN — The Canal It was a long time coming but my birth city of Indianapolis has finally cleaned up much of the downtown area. My favorite place there is the Indiana Historical Society from which this picture was … Continue reading Indy…
This is terrorism’s sick genius. Terrorists invite us — seduce us — to share their Manichaean worldview, to respond to savagery with savagery, to join them in madness. “Make us safe!” Americans demanded. And so our elected leaders launched two wars, saw WMD where there were none, launched surveillance programs with virtually no limits, and embraced “enhanced interrogation.” As justification, the White House and the CIA joined Machiavelli, Marx, and Stalin in insisting that the end justifies the means. Lots of individuals bear responsibility for the horrors detailed in the Senate committee’s torture report. But if we are honest, that … Continue reading How we went to the Dark Side…
Cape May, NJ Many of those affluent folks who didn’t spend their summers at Atlantic City spent them at Cape May. There are literally hundreds of Victorian mansions there as evidence. Continue reading The Jersey Shore…
I don’t think I am the only one who notices all those new superheroes TV shows starting to flood the airways. I must admit that I am currently watching a couple of them. Gotham and Flash are now on my regular view list. It is nice to be able to escape reality once in a while. It is also nice that these new shows are replacing the “reality” shows that have dominated so many networks. It didn’t take much for me to be filled up with that genre. They were anything but reality to me. Yeah they were cheap to … Continue reading About Those Super Heroes…
Nova Scotia, Canada I wanted to show you a picture of an old friend I made on our 2011 visit to our neighbors to the north. For some reason I connected with this old guy. Continue reading An Old Friend..
I am going to put my vanity aside here and post a selfie. This was taken in January of 1999 right before we visited the Windows to the World restaurant atop the World Trade Center for the last time. It was taken at Battery Park on a chilly afternoon. This is one of the photos of myself I kind of like. It makes me look like a real author that I always dreamed of being. Thanks to the Internet I have at least at a minimal level accomplished that dream. :) Continue reading A Selfie…
One of the solutions to those tanking profits? Shrinking menu sizes. “Our intent is to have a cleaner menu board that is easier for customers to absorb,” spokeswoman Lisa McComb said in a statement to The Huffington Post. To do so, McComb said McDonald’s will be “simplifying our current menu.” SOURCE: McDonald’s Set To Phase Out Some Of Your Favorite Items. Wean Yourselves Now.. I know I will probably hear from some of you about my eating at McDonald’s but that is what I do sometimes when I am in a hurry. I am just a person who generally eats to … Continue reading McDonald’s Set To Phase Out Some….
RJ's Corner - Having My Say 