The Saturday Picture Show, January 14, 2023

 

This is the sunset view enjoyed by many in the Canton neighborhood in Baltimore at the waterfront park down there. 

There are two books I read as a teenager that I still re-read annually. One is "Catcher In The Rye" and the other took place largely at the home in Holcomb, Kansas, here pictured. This was the Clutter residence, site of the murders so perfectly written of in Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," the first true crime story written as if it were fiction. The Clutters were murdered by a pair of worthless drifters in 1959, and the house is still occupied by another family. I re-read "In Cold Blood," not to see how it turns out, but to marvel at Capote's incomparable way with words, and also to wonder how there can be such pure evil in such a beautiful world. 

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself"

 - Josh Billings

I'm happy to see Red and Kitty Forman from "That 70s Show" coming back to TV in the new "That 90s Show." Red always had a cool way of planning what to do with his foot.

Wooden eye be glad to use this as a wallpaper?

Sometimes I get to thinking about those days, the Camelot era in his 1000 days in the White House, his tragic loss, and how the national gloom of November was lifted in January by The Beatles. If you weren't there, there's no way to describe it fully.

When I worked at the A&P, they made a big deal of grinding coffee beans right in the store. I used to enjoy picking up a stray bean and enjoying it like a caffeinated Life Saver.

It's unbelievable, what happened in Brazil. A band of right wingers refused to accept that their candidate lost the presidential election, so they stormed government offices and laid waste to the property of others in their stupid rage. Thank God that could never happen here, no sir. 

Ice fog on a country road! Enchanting!

Anything can become art, in the right hands.