Sunday, September 27, 2009

Wonderful book-THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS with a gorgeous cover

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I just finished one of the best books I've read this year. It is The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. The author is best known f...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Elaine Stritch--LADIES WHO LUNCH--Stephen Sondheim, speaking of beauty

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Okay, I admit it. I am crazy for Stephen Sondheim's work. So for those theater people, or otherwise, who find this to be uninteresting t...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

GORGEOUS new building in China--what a wonderful structure

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No, this is not a new dirigible! It's a new building. There's some really interesting architecture coming out China these days, pa...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Dubai--the MOST amazing city on the planet.

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I'm endlessly fascinated with Dubai. A city with a huge skyline that just a few decades ago was a vast desert wasteland. This great v...

Another cool photo

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TIME Magazine Picture of the Week--Tuesday, September 6, 2007 HAN CHUANHAO / XINHUA /LANDOV Out of This ...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Cool photo!

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TIME Magazine Today in Pictures, August 21, 2009 Whitehotpix / ZUMA Rough Housing A cub takes a playful bite of a relative's swishing ta...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT-- covers the brilliant Leonard Cohen's HALLELUJAH

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Cute dude, classic song and I don't know.........almost as good as Cohen's. I love Leonard Cohen! and I REALLY worship Rufus. Qui...
Monday, September 7, 2009

YUM! Remembrance of vacations past--in BRITISH COLUMBIA--part 3

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Continuing my reminicenses of vacations ( click here for all of these postings ) in past years spent in British Columbia I have to talk abou...

Just finished a GREAT book--I SURVIVED SWISS BOARDING SCHOOLS by Richard Rene Silvin

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I just finished this remarkable book last night, weeping right up to the end. What a wonderful book about triumph despite extreme adversity...
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Saturday, September 5, 2009

I love this gal--this just makes me laugh hysterically

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Most of you don't even know me. Or rather, you've never met me in person which I assure you is a blessing. One of my most distinct...

JULIE & JULIA -- it was one of my favorite books and now is one of my favorite movies

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The Bug lady and I went to see JULIE & JULIA a couple of weeks ago. Another perfect example of a perfect book and a perfect movie. The...

I love ELEPHANTS.....and other endangered species and reincarnation

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Isn't it tragic that these magnificent animals (Pygmy elephant, Sumatra tiger, polar bear, giant panda) are species on the brink of non...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

Sorry! I haven't been posting

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But for some reason blogger is not working correctly. Some of my photos are missing from previous blogs and I can't reload them. I'...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Inspiring videos on youtube--these will brighten your life

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The three videos below were in my very first blog entry....but I wanted to listen to them again. 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq6b9b...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

My ongoing Quest for the perfect Carbonara--THE PERFECT MEAL

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Spaghetti alla Carbonara: How to make a real CARBONARA As I mentioned in a previous blog (http://markgsmusings.blogspot.com/2009/06/carbonar...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Those Dubai dudes are really amazing--check out this BEAUTIFUL and TALL planned building

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Not only do they have now the tallest building in the world (see my previous blogs about Burj Dubai here ) and one of the most ambitiously g...
Sunday, August 16, 2009

GREAT photo

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TIME Picture of the Week August 4, 2009 NASA/Reuters Ready for Lift Off The space shuttle Discovery prepares to launch at the Kennedy Space ...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

REGINA SPECTOR-- Samson -- a beautiful song

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This is a remarkably poised young lady and haunting a song. 1 2 3 1 2 3
Friday, August 14, 2009

COOL photos--strange curious architecture

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I love architecture. When I was a kid I wanted to become an architect. That was before I flunked my way through algebra, etc. Here are som...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

I just LOVE elephants--more cool photos

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TIME Pictures of the Week: Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009 Boris Roessler/DPA/Landov Just Your Average Day in the Park A sunbather and an elep...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

the goddess BARBARA COOK--the best cover of Janis Ian's heartbreaking & beautiful STARS

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This is a very hard song to top. Janis Ian's song is a masterpiece. But somehow I think Barbara Cook bests Ian. Maybe it's Cook...
Monday, August 10, 2009

INCUNABULA--beautiful word

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in⋅cu⋅nab⋅u⋅la [in-kyoo-nab-yuh-luh, ing-] –plural noun, singular -lum 1. extant copies of books produced in the earliest s...
Sunday, August 9, 2009

Cool photo--BURJ DUBAI--world's tallest building

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Here's a cool photo of the Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world. See my previous posting on this at: http://markgsmusings.blogs...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

Poet & artist WILLIAM BLAKE-Colorado Springs-Thomas Jefferson and the Library of Congress-cool temperatures

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I've been in Colorado Springs all week attending the Colorado Antiquarian Bookseller Seminar. I arrived last Sunday and have absolutely...