Please feel free to discredit this post for opinions based on naked favoritism, but here goes: I like teachers. I think teaching is an honorable profession, often conducted under very challenging circumstances. Now it t is true that my wife is a teacher, that my sister was a teacher, that I have cousins who are …
I am so woefully behind in my blogging that I am only now getting around to subjects that weeks or months old! However, if the thought has survived rattling around in my head all this time, I suppose it deserves recording. Like many people, I was happy with the final episode of Mad Men‘s demi-season. …
I loved the article by Robinson Meyer in The Atlantic about how individuals can fight the panoptic power of CCTV and other surveillance devices just by slathering on some face paint. According to Meyer, “the pixel-calculating machinations of facial recognition algorithms” are thwarted by connivingly applied make up, which transforms one’s f“ace into a mess …
Our escape from the Badlands took us into Minnesota (we were tempted to visit Northfield, where the James Gang met its Waterloo) znd then to Iowa, where we spent Wednesday night, then down through Illinois, Indiana and finally back to Lexington, where were spent Thursday night, and then onto Chamberburg PA, where we spent Friday …
Cara fulfilled her great vacation wish and and hiked some of the trails in the Badlands, the strange topographical formation left when the great ocean drained away. Below: Top of the world, Ma!; Cara channels James Franco in 127 Seconds; At long last, buffalo; where NASA faked the moon landing.
We spent forever driving in South Dakota today, and if you’ve ever spent the day driving in South Dakota, you know how long forever is. On the up side, Cara got to pose with four other great Americans at Mount Rushmore. We also saw some wild horses, which we on the mild side of wild. …
After a certain amount of drama, the Jackson Family Reunion took place in Roxii’s bistro in picturesque Laramie: me, Rick, Cara, Brian Jackson, Cathy Jackson (standing); Ginny, Marie and Bill (seated)
My brother-in-law Rick Jackson joined us for lunch; it was great to see him. In the evening, Ginny and Cara and I returned to Frontier Days and saw Lady Antebellum in concert. They put on a great show; to an old timer like me, the highlight was their cover of `Honky Tonk Women.’
Thursday was devoted to a long, punishing drive across Kansas, where we saw the first of many wind turbines that we would all across the great American prairie, up to Fort Collins, Colorado, where we stayed in a room that had a hit tub and shower right next to the bed. Weird. On Friday, we …
On Wednesday we motored across Tennessee to see Graceland, the surprisingly modest home of Elvis Presley. Meh. Banal testosterone-infused sixties styles. The miracle is that he happened; his personal effects are just leftovers. Here is his grave, left, and on the right, the only bit of wit I saw in the place : Afterwards, we …