This video dates back to 1897 and is purported to be the oldest videos of Paris on record:
This guy is paragliding through the Aurora Borealis.
Ordinarily I’d be jealous of an experience like that, but I saw this today, kitteh yoga:
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Jan 16
Back at it
And you know what that means:
Saw this tonight:
Last month I went on about how the marketing for Star Wars has taken on a new life under the Disney brand. I believe I called George Lucas a marketing piker. But that doesn’t apply here. Star Wars cereal has been around for more than 30 years.
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Jan 16
Thanks, Ziggy
I had a perfectly good late 80s, early 90s exposure to David Bowie. He was long since a thing, of course, and far beyond anything I could understand then, or maybe even now. That was part of the art. He was a kind … sort … a type of art of his own. I like to think that he was trying to tell us we all were.
It seems difficult to imagine listening to his duets just now.
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Jan 16
Leaving Savannah
I don’t know how you rank signs on stairs, but this is way up there, if you ask me:
We finally got the chance to dine at The Olde Pink House. Delicious and worth the wait:
The thing about Savannah is, no matter the time of year, things there are always in bloom:
Back home tonight, though I could stay away for some time. Oh, and I forgot this video about yesterday:
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Jan 16
Hanging out at Forsyth Park
Forsyth Park is full of history. It was created in the 1840s, and was, in a way, an original part of the future plans of Savannah. French and American soldiers camped on the site during the Revolutionary War around bloody fighting in the town. The French started building siege trenches there and, then just two generations later, the Georgia home guard drilled on the park during the Civil War. The town’s Confederate monument is there.
This is where The Yankee I visit every time we come to Savannah. We have a tree. We got engaged there and took some of our wedding portraits there. It is a beautiful place and has a lot of history, and contemporary vitality, too.
At a nearby novelty shop:
Funny t-shirts:
Late, late editions … watch the lights in these Boomerang videos:
