As we broil in 100+ temperatures in Joklahoma, how nice it is to think of cool inviting Sweden. Stockholm’s highs this week are 75 degrees Fahrenheit, but I’m thinking that it would be even colder were it not for the pulsating heat of Gunther and the Sunshine Girls. Yes, he comes from the same land that gave us ABBA and Ace of Base.
My Ta La La
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If This Is Goodbye
The climax of the new album All the Roadrunning by Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris is this poignant song, inspired by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Knopfler wrote the song after reading the empathic article Only Love and Then Oblivion which the author Ian McEwan published in the UK’s Guardian newspaper four days after the attacks. Out of such ugliness comes such beauty.
Our Cities Suck…
You owe it to yourself to visit the TED site and see its wonderful short videos of ideas. One of my favorites is this call to action by James Howard Kunstler to re-engineer our abysmally dysfunctional American cities.
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The Humans Are Dead
Two fellows from New Zealand cracked me up today with this video clip. You can check out their new show on HBO or on iTunes.
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Oregon Trails
Highlights from my 2006 Oregon Trip
I don’t have the luxury of a long vacation in the Pacific Northwest this summer, so I’ll have to rely on fond memories of last summer’s dayhikes and tourism along the Oregon coast.
Meador Manor 