Wonderful

Turns out Ellington’s “The Single Petal of a Rose” is a pretty good song to work on when your dog really wants to be petted. And the one group of mistakes a couple of minutes in weren’t even his fault.

#Caturday, innit.

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

Bram Stoker, Novelist, Biographer, Critic, Theatre Business Manager, #BornOnThisDay in 1847, in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland

Rain (Elizabeth Taylor)

Wrote a few unworthy words about Pauline Collins. www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

My Top Ten Most Listened To Joni Tracks Since 2010 (original studio album tracks unless otherwise noted) 10. Rainy Night House 9. Chelsea Morning 8. Both Sides Now (Both Sides Now version) 7. Hejira 6. Help Me/Free Man in Paris 5. Jericho (Don Juan's version)

“Nightmares of boredom and melancholy oozed from him[, infecting all the social atmosphere round about. Somebody put a drink in his hand. Tension relaxed a little.]”

Every day, I pick this guy up and ask him if it’s the day when he decides that he likes being held. Every day thus far, it has not been. (It’s fine. He likes to sleep on my legs all night and sit near me on the couch. That’ll do.)

It’s Joan’s birthday tomorrow. Dame Joan Sutherland & Luciano Pavarotti performing ‘Parigi, o cara’ from Verdi’s ‘La traviata’ at Sydney Opera House (1983):

(from Philip Larkin’s ‘Reference Back’) “We’re not suited to the long perspectives Open at each instant of our lives. They link us to our losses: worse, They show us what we have as it once was, Blindingly undiminished, just as though By acting differently we could have kept it so.”

Goodbye to her.

It’s Joni’s birthday tomorrow. 🎶 Just a little green Like the nights when the Northern lights perform There’ll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there’ll be sorrow 🎶

“The Normans started it, becoming famously ‘more Irish than the Irish themselves’ and launching the Eight Hundred Years of Impressionism.”

I'm a bit of a nerd about this - but it's hard to quantify just how popular Local Link buses have been in 'rural Ireland' - new one will link villages from Cork to Kerry that haven't had a bus service since the 1960s... www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...

If that’s the ‘East Wing’, I’m afraid I have some bad news for you Senator.

(from Yeats’s ‘Adam’s Curse’) “We sat grown quiet at the name of love; We saw the last embers of daylight die, And in the trembling blue-green of the sky A moon, worn as if it had been a shell Washed by time’s waters as they rose and fell About the stars and broke in days and years.”

They may look like house cats, but sand cats are fearless predators! Our sand cats both now live in the brand-new TLC Foundation Small Cat Hideaway. Over 800 gallons of sandy substrate were spread through their habitats for the cats to enjoy digging and playing in! 📷: Male Simba by keeper Brooke

Released #OnThisDay 75 years ago

Huge “part of the Olive Garden casual dining restaurant chain” energy.

“Man wants to be fish or fowl, the snake would like to have wings the dog is a disoriented lion, the engineer would like to be a poet, the fly studies to be a swift, the poet tries to imitate the fly, but the cat only wants to be a cat”

Sam Shepard, Actor, Playwright, Screenwriter, Director, #BornOnThisDay in 1943, in Fort Sheridan, Illinois

From Jenkins’s walker yesterday.

Joel McCrea, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1905, in South Pasadena, California

It’s Vivien’s birthday tomorrow.

She doesn’t sound very aloof

Stanley Cortez, Cinematographer, #BornOnThisDay in 1908, in New York City

Jeremy Brett, Actor, #BornOnThisDay in 1933, in Berkswell, England

The cats would like me to think about what I have done

Where to get free food in metro Atlanta as SNAP benefits run out

Luchino Visconti, Director, Screenwriter, #BornOnThisDay in 1906, in Milan 📸 Erio Piccagliani (1954)

Phil Woods, Jazz Alto Saxophonist, Clarinetist, Composer, #BornOnThisDay in 1931, in Springfield, Massachusetts On ‘Doctor Wu’ from Steely Dan’s ’Katy Lied’ (1975): youtu.be/ImtdntJQfSs?...

Edmund Blunden, Poet, Author, Critic, Journalist, Academic, #BornOnThisDay in 1896, in London From ‘Can You Remember?’: “And some are sparkling, laughing, singing, Young, heroic, mild; And some incurable, twisted, Shrieking, dumb, defiled.”

Lou Donaldson, Jazz Alto Saxophonist, #BornOnThisDay in 1926, in Badin, North Carolina

Terence Tenison Cuneo, Painter, #BornOnThisDay in 1907, in London ‘Bon Voyage: Trains Joining Steam Ships at Calais’, National Railway Museum, York

L. S. Lowry, Artist, #BornOnThisDay in 1887, in Stretford, Lancashire, England ‘View of a Town’ (1936), Usher Gallery, Lincoln

#Caturday Hank, with pencil.

It’s Barbara’s birthday tomorrow.

Clifford Brown, Jazz Trumpeter, #BornOnThisDay in 1930, in Wilmington, Delaware

Ruth Hussey, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1911, in Providence, Rhode Island

Ruth Gordon, Actress, Screenwriter, #BornOnThisDay in 1896, in Quincy, Massachusetts

#NowPlaying ‘I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart’: youtu.be/wIbZayyLSYM?...

This story is developing nicely.

. . . and on ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ w/ Feldman, Kessel, Brown, & Higgins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jknp...

Today is Zoot Sims’s 100th birthday.

Elsa Lanchester, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1902, in Lewisham, London

John Hewitt, Poet, #BornOnThisDay in 1907, in Belfast “It is a hard responsibility to be a stranger; To hear your speech sounding at odds with your neighbours’; Holding your tongue from quick comparisons; Remembering that you are a guest in the house.”

Goodbye to her. She was wonderful.