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The Other Curmudgeon: January 2015
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Insightful observations and cogent commentary on all the really important things in life. Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Sweden In Pop Culture. Having seen the incredibly dreary television series Wallender. With Kenneth Branagh, and the movie made from the book The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Being a Texan, I know just how accurate these sorts of generalizations about a place often are. Links to this post. If you're interested (and why would you be? Pictures from the PCB Tour. There may be others; I don't...
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The Other Curmudgeon: May 2014
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Insightful observations and cogent commentary on all the really important things in life. Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Mackinaw City, Michigan. We opted for dinner at this local family-style place at the recommendation of our hotelier. The ambience is middle-class-comfortable, clean and well-maintained, not the least bit pretentious or trendy. Solid and reliable, I suppose, are the adjectives they're going for, and they succeed. The chicken primavera was a little heavy on the alfredo sauce, but otherwise som...
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The Other Curmudgeon: Before I Forget...
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Insightful observations and cogent commentary on all the really important things in life. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Next weekend marks the start of the Most Important Sporting Competition In The Whole World, possibly excepting the World Cup: the English Premier League. Every year I predict who will finish where, and every year I forget what my prediction was. (My predictions are, apparently, eminently forgettable.) So this year, I'm writing it down. Here:. Close, but no cigar. Sure, why not? Oh, By the Way.
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The Other Curmudgeon: August 2014
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Insightful observations and cogent commentary on all the really important things in life. Saturday, August 9, 2014. End of the End of the Road. Continued from previous post). There is a reason why they call it "The Grand Canyon":. Eventually the fog lifted, and we were amazed again. Words fail me. The Colorado River used to run red. Since the dams built across it above the Canyon, it's now a mundane shade of greenish-brown for most of the year. This formation is called a "temple.". When the fog lifted.
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The Other Curmudgeon: Grazing Through Texas
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Insightful observations and cogent commentary on all the really important things in life. Friday, March 26, 2010. I love to travel to small, out-of-the-way towns, and since I live fairly close to smack-dab in the middle of the gigantic state of Texas, much of my travelling is done there. A monthly magazine put out by the Texas Highway Department;. A publication of AAA-Texas;. A glossy high-falutin' magazine that I only occasionally see; and occasionally other sources that don't immediately come to mind.
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The Other Curmudgeon: Winnipeg? Winnipeg!
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Insightful observations and cogent commentary on all the really important things in life. Thursday, June 25, 2015. When the ethically-challenged governing body of soccer in the world announced that the United States team would play its first two games of the Women's World Cup in Winnipeg, my first reaction was that I would stay home and watch it on television. After all, I mean. Winnipeg? Of course it suffers from chronic vague post-modern guilt, and points too resolutely and too desperately at its glitz...
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The Other Curmudgeon: August 2015
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Insightful observations and cogent commentary on all the really important things in life. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Next weekend marks the start of the Most Important Sporting Competition In The Whole World, possibly excepting the World Cup: the English Premier League. Every year I predict who will finish where, and every year I forget what my prediction was. (My predictions are, apparently, eminently forgettable.) So this year, I'm writing it down. Here:. Close, but no cigar. Sure, why not? Oh, By the Way.
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The Other Curmudgeon: July 2014
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Insightful observations and cogent commentary on all the really important things in life. Thursday, July 31, 2014. A Nice Place to Live, But I Wouldn't Want to Visit There. When we planned the excursion, not having carefully read the place description on line.) Then we headed into the city. Hertz's NeverLost device is slow to respond to input on its touchscreen. You put in a letter (having to spell everything) and it registers, but you don't know that it registers so you put it in again, and then. Butter...
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The Other Curmudgeon: June 2015
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Insightful observations and cogent commentary on all the really important things in life. Thursday, June 25, 2015. When the ethically-challenged governing body of soccer in the world announced that the United States team would play its first two games of the Women's World Cup in Winnipeg, my first reaction was that I would stay home and watch it on television. After all, I mean. Winnipeg? Of course it suffers from chronic vague post-modern guilt, and points too resolutely and too desperately at its glitz...
