The Stonewasher

Good Times Rolling

2010-05-18T18:04:00.000-07:00

Just heard Let The Good Times Roll on Rock 101 today. They play Cars fairly frequently. I also listen to The Cars fairly regularly in the course of life. Ha ha, no, I don't refer to the noise of vehicles passing by, or indeed to the sound of my own Honda's squeaky brakes. I mean the group of which I speak in this particular posting.

Queen proclaimed that they were in love with their car. Freddie famously 'loved' many... nouns.

6 Weeks

2010-05-17T11:10:00.000-07:00

It's about 6 weeks until summer. The weather is gorgeous already, although it is still springlike, with a refreshing cool quality to the air. The pressing heat of the summer sun has yet to arrive. Meteorologists are still adding "chance of showers" to forecasts, I'm sending my girls on outings with hoodies along just in case, our cars still have condensation on the windows in the morning.

Everywhere I go I'm seeing the delightful signs of the season: gals wearing summery fashions, people bicycling and riding motorcycles, animals out for walks and runs in the park, people eating on patios at home and at restaurants, convertibles on the car lots and on the roads, politicians going to court (wait, that's a year-round thing), and so on.

I don't know if there is a better time of year. Anticipation of summer and school holidays for my girls, the feeling that the year is still new, the sense of momentum gained while still lots of possibilities.

May has a real good feel.

On This Day - May 12

2010-05-12T13:42:00.001-07:00

On this day in 1941 Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. In a sense one could trace this post's genesis to that red-letter day.

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Subtly Bright

2010-05-10T10:33:00.001-07:00

Overcast and cooler today. However, Russ the Weatherman at News 1130 has all but removed any chance of showers from the forecast, so at least we're likely going to stay dry. It's not so cool as to be a problem, that's for sure. Short sleeves are fine unless you're standing around in the shade.

There is enough sunshine to make the trees gleam, but it is all being filtered by the clouds overhead. No glare, but quite bright.

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Sunshine, Blue Sky

2010-05-07T14:00:00.001-07:00

Sunshine, blue sky today. Everything seems spontaneously better on a day like this!

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Hot Tub Time Machine

2010-05-06T20:31:00.000-07:00

I suppose it's largely due to the fact that my generational cohort is now at a young middle age where we have the combination of energy and influence to make things that we like, but however it came about I got a kick out of the recent movie Hot Tub Time Machine. Maybe those who were adolescents in other decades found their eras as memorable and distinctive, but the 80's just seemed so replete with bizarre and unique elements. Acid wash jeans, big hair, glam rock, leg warmers, and so on. Wow.

China Grandma

2010-05-06T15:32:00.001-07:00

Whatever happened to Bowie's China Girl? She's probably married with kids--and grandkids-- by now. She's probably shushed them all hundreds of times when they got excited.

50 Mission Cap

2010-05-06T13:36:00.001-07:00

"50 Mission Cap" by the Tragically Hip: unforgettable song. Unforgettable Canadiana.

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Led Zeppelin

2010-05-05T10:03:00.001-07:00

Apropos of nothing, Led Zeppelin's song "The Ocean" continues to rock the house. That is all.

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Happy May 5th Everyone!

2010-05-04T21:58:00.001-07:00

From wikipedia:

Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") is a holiday that commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at theBattle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.^[1][2] While not an "obligatory federal holiday" in Mexico, it is celebrated primarily in the state of Puebla, and in the United States.^[3][4]

Cinco de Mayo is not "an obligatory federal holiday" in Mexico, but rather a holiday that can be observed voluntarily.^[5][6] While Cinco de Mayo has limited significance nationwide in Mexico, the date is observed in the United States (also voluntarily) and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride.^[7] Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico's Independence Day,^[8] which actually is September 16,^[9] the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico.^[10]

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Stonewashed Dreams

2010-05-03T15:05:00.000-07:00

Bygone decades each have their distinctive 'feel', and the cohorts for whom they stir up nostalgia. For me, it's the 80's, for you it might be earlier or later.

This blog is a scrapbook of fact & fantasy. What is written here is a mixture of reality and fiction created as entertainment and pastime. It may on occasion contain helpful information, but this occurs serendipitously, and is not the purpose of the work.