Three Billboards is a film by Martin McDonagh and starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. It is an outstanding film. I like it for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which are the great performances. As well, the characters are complex… Read More
Shields Landon “S.L.” Jones (1901-1997) was from West Virginia. He worked for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for 45 years. After the death of his wife in 1967, he took up whittling figures and drawing as a hobby in his retirement. He also played the… Read More
The other day I posted a pic of a painting of a yellow cat by Charley Kinney. Here’s another of his works, this one a fishing scene. You can see there are two people fishing. One is about to hook a lunker of a creature,… Read More
Here’s a blast from the past, one of a group of paintings I made after a couple fly fishing trips to Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Yellowstone I made with my friend East Texas Red, back in the early 90s. I think this one is from… Read More
We have a painted wood staircase going up to the bedrooms. Yesterday I gave it a fresh coat of paint. The Ladybug (AKA Bugsy) couldn’t wait to try it out.
I love Charley Kinney’s paintings. They’re expressive and bold, and some of them, like this cat, strike me as very funny. Kinney often set the image within some kind of painted framing device. All the ones I”ve seen are on paper, but I read that… Read More
The folks at Deep Mind are at it again. Recently they turned their attention to chess and came up with an AI which very quickly beat up on the previously best chess computers. Now they’ve come up with a Go teaching tool, focusing on the… Read More
After reading Sourdough by Robin Sloan, I felt compelled to bake some bread. I don’t have a sourdough monster going right now – I plan to start one in January after our vacation. However, I’m not against bread made with commercial yeast, and sometimes you… Read More
Over the weekend, I gobbled up Robin Sloan’s new novel, Sourdough. The narrator is a woman who creates program code for robot arms. She orders soup and sandwiches daily from a restaurant with no address, and when the owners, who come from an exotic and… Read More
I just finished reading Bellevue Square by Michael Redhill. It hardly needs a revue, as it’s this year’s Giller Prize winner. I loved this book. It messes with the reader throughout, but that’s OK. It’s vexing and clever and it’s a page-turner. What is real?… Read More
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