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Oh, the Spanish-American War had its day
Today was overcast and curiously warm until we had a sudden thunderstorm and now it's drafty and cold, so here are pictures from yesterday's walk.
Either a very optimistic or a very confused day lily.
An elm grows in Somerville!
It says so on the label. I am calling it "Bella Ptelea," however, since that's the name I gave on the form when I put in with the city to adopt it, and defending this flagrant piece of macaroni on the grounds that it sounds like a medieval spell.
I am fairly confident there shouldn't be water underneath the School Street Bridge, since it runs over train tracks, not a river, but we've been seeing it for weeks and now there's a sort of pump set up out of shot. I liked the square of reflection floating in the seepage. It seemed to mimic the drowned pieces of crates.
The war memorial in front of the Somerville Public Library has been removed. I can't tell if its absence is construction- or politics-related. I always thought it was for the Spanish-American War, but it turns out to include also the Philippine-American War and the China Relief Expedition. It used to get Phil Ochs' "Sailors and Soldiers" stuck in my head (the version I learned from Sid Griffin and Billy Bragg, specifically) and now, to the annoyance of his shade, I expect, it's given me Dylan.
Looking from the Walnut Street Bridge toward the Medford Street Bridge, which you may just detect is partly missing. There's quite a lot more high school in that skyline than there used to be.
Under no circumstances did we even think of taking home this sidewalk couch, but it seemed to be making the leaf happy.
TCM will be running the long-lost, recently restored film debut of Harpo Marx in November and The New England Journal of Medicine has officially had it with this government. I appreciate both of these things.
Either a very optimistic or a very confused day lily.
An elm grows in Somerville!
It says so on the label. I am calling it "Bella Ptelea," however, since that's the name I gave on the form when I put in with the city to adopt it, and defending this flagrant piece of macaroni on the grounds that it sounds like a medieval spell.
I am fairly confident there shouldn't be water underneath the School Street Bridge, since it runs over train tracks, not a river, but we've been seeing it for weeks and now there's a sort of pump set up out of shot. I liked the square of reflection floating in the seepage. It seemed to mimic the drowned pieces of crates.
The war memorial in front of the Somerville Public Library has been removed. I can't tell if its absence is construction- or politics-related. I always thought it was for the Spanish-American War, but it turns out to include also the Philippine-American War and the China Relief Expedition. It used to get Phil Ochs' "Sailors and Soldiers" stuck in my head (the version I learned from Sid Griffin and Billy Bragg, specifically) and now, to the annoyance of his shade, I expect, it's given me Dylan.
Looking from the Walnut Street Bridge toward the Medford Street Bridge, which you may just detect is partly missing. There's quite a lot more high school in that skyline than there used to be.
Under no circumstances did we even think of taking home this sidewalk couch, but it seemed to be making the leaf happy.
TCM will be running the long-lost, recently restored film debut of Harpo Marx in November and The New England Journal of Medicine has officially had it with this government. I appreciate both of these things.
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(granted that i last read it 30 y ago bc my dad would leave his issues lying around the house and back then it was staid articles on things like hypothermia but holy jeez wow0)
sorry typing around a acatrtten
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I think it's unprecedented. I got the news from a friend who is a doctor and has been on several COVID front lines this year. He sounded clarion about it.
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Our city is full of those!
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I love the couch for falling leaves! Why shouldn’t they have a nice soft landing :D
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They really don't mince words.
I love the couch for falling leaves! Why shouldn’t they have a nice soft landing
I like that way of thinking of it!
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Never knew that Harpo had performed without his brothers back then. I am trying to imagine the plot of this Ruritanian farrago.
Nine
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I hope it makes a difference.
Never knew that Harpo had performed without his brothers back then. I am trying to imagine the plot of this Ruritanian farrago.
I have no idea if it will be any good at all, but assuming we still have a country by the end of November, I plan to watch it.
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(Next door classroom, not mine. Was very exciting!)
~Sor
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Same! Did you see the news about Chess of the Wind (1976)? Which I had never heard of and which sounds amazing.
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Humor Risk (1921) was shot first with all four brothers, but never released and now lost. I went looking to see what happened there and fell down a conspiracy theory, which seems to happen often where this film is concerned.
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I'm glad they are being useful to you! I agree that nobody wants exploding pipes. (Says the person whose toilet has been making weird noises since last night, apotropaically.)
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You're welcome! The elm photo is kind of a mess because some people suddenly approached on the sidewalk and showed no signs of social distancing, so I had to snap and bolt, but it is at least a record, and I like the rest.
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this sounds profoundly weird and fascinating and is free tonight, apparently? https://slate.com/culture/2020/10/angels-in-america-covid-amfar-oral-history.html?via=rss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8o_jGJV5qw
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Thank you for letting me know! Whoa.
"I was like, 'Where is your threshold of revelation, Mom? Is the threshold of revelation next to the bathroom?'"
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It has a nice couch!
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I have! There was a copy in the house when I was growing up, along with Joe Adamson's Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo (1973) and Arthur Marx's Not as a Crocodile (1958). Due to my relationship with movies, I almost certainly read about the Marx Brothers before I saw them.
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That's a tenacious day lily!
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I think that's very appropriate for a leaf's bed.
(And you're right, that kind of sandstone that is called brownstone, especially when it weathers.)
That's a tenacious day lily!
I was not expecting to see it! Most of the blooming things of the spring and summer have long since rolled up and gone home. It was nice.
brownstone