If I were stranded on a desert island, these would be the top ten records I would want with me ( Read more... )

"The polling company Rasmussen Reports, which interviewed 500 Illinois voters on Wednesday, said...79% said he should end up in jail." (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-12-11-blagojevich_N.htmRead more... )

Friend of mine died two weeks back. Memorial service was held yesterday. I shared these to make a point: Johnny had a strange sense of humor. Actually, I think he was very probably mentally ill. Here is the evidence:(Regarding the Monica Lewinsky scandal:) This whole thing is ridiculous, this impeachment thing that is. I have always wanted to write ( Read more... )

Newsweek published this sunny look at Ukraine, which talks about how Ukraine is supposedly getting all European and turning its back on Russia more and more ( Read more... )

This is a detail from a photograph one can find in New York Life at the Turn of the Century in Photographs. It's a picture of folks on the beach at Coney Island.

I love these two kids. The photo is from 1896, but with only the slightest hair restyling and a change of clothes they look ready to hang out outside a Crystal Castles concert.


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Beginning this week's roll-out for this set here on LiveJournal. Enjoy!

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It's a lazy, late Sunday morning in Iasi, Romania. Weather cold, skies blue and sunny ( Read more... )

Euro and the English pound seemingly in free-fall to the dollar; just about every day a new 2008 record. Euro is now hovering at November 2006 levels. Amazing times, and a small silver lining in the black, churning clouds of the economic hurricane for aspiring U.S. travelers considering visiting Europe ( Read more... )

I have the best mailman in the entire world. His name is Lee ("Like Bruce," he told me ( Read more... )