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“Build my gallows high, baby.”* | dual personalities
https://dualpersonalities.wordpress.com/2015/08/06/build-my-gallows-high-baby
8220;Build my gallows high, baby.”*. Today is Robert Mitchum’s birthday. Even as a child, I knew he was sexy. I mean really. And he was a little scary too. Finally he was paired with John Wayne. Perfect. Indeed, he made some really good movies and some not so great ones. He played two of my favorite characters in fiction: Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe (twice) and A.B. Guthrie’s Dick Summers in. So let’s toast Robert Mitchum tonight and watch one of his. His Kind of Woman. Out of the Past. August 6, 2...
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Note to self: carpe diem! | dual personalities
https://dualpersonalities.wordpress.com/2015/07/28/note-to-self-carpe-diem
Note to self: carpe diem! Today is Beatrix Potter’s birthday! The Mice at Work: Threading the Needle circa 1902 Helen Beatrix Potter 1866-1943. In the meantime, have you heard that there is a new book. Of short stories and essays by Shirley Jackson coming out soon? Well, there is. I will probably check this book. Out as I am a big fan of Shirley Jackson. At least it is her children who have put this collection together and are presumably benefiting from it. I will not be buying. Go Set a Watchman. By poo...
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Once in a blue moon | dual personalities
https://dualpersonalities.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/once-in-a-blue-moon
Once in a blue moon. Well, last week was a busy one, full of travel on airplanes (up and down eight times! Rental cars and GPS apps, delays, and the kindness of strangers. I have to say, I was impressed with the University of Alabama who sponsored the Southern Regional Conference on Learning in Retirement. They put on a very good conference. The first evening they held a reception for us at the. Which looks like this on the outside in the fall. And the setting was lovely. They do love their corinthian co...