"He looked at his mother. Her blue eyes were watching the cathedral quietly. She seemed again to be beyond him. Something in the eternal repose of the uplifted [Lincoln] cathedral, blue and noble against the sky, was reflected in her, something of the fatality. What was, was. With all his young will he could not alter it. He saw her face, the skin still fresh and pink and downy, but crow's-feet near her eyes, her eyelids steady, sinking a little, her mouth always closed with disillusion; and there was on her the same eternal look, as if she knew fate at last. He beat against it with all the strength of his soul"--Sons and Lovers
"I love being a grandmother. It's like eating all the ice cream you want and never getting fat!"--Bloodline
Thursday night was the History Meetup, where the subject was modern China. Just three people came, but one of them talked a lot and that was worth quite a bit.
This afternoon I saw three episodes of The Wild, Wild West with Dawna. That show was The Man From UNCLE on the frontier, as crazy as it sounds. In one episode they took on a megalomaniac who wanted to create an independent state between the U.S. and Mexico and had stolen the first copy of the United States constitution; in another someone tried to shoot the Mexican president and they had to figure out who was really behind it; in the other one the dwarfish villain Dr. Loveless faked his death and pretended to be his own neurosurgeon uncle.
By today's standards it was a cheesy show, especially the de rigeur fight scenes. Watching several episodes, you'll notice that the sets got recycled. (Big Brad's Bar seemed to be a chain with franchises all over the west!) One detail that bugs me is their getting orders from Washington by pigeon post: how can a carrier pigeon track down a moving railroad car?
"I love being a grandmother. It's like eating all the ice cream you want and never getting fat!"--Bloodline
Thursday night was the History Meetup, where the subject was modern China. Just three people came, but one of them talked a lot and that was worth quite a bit.
This afternoon I saw three episodes of The Wild, Wild West with Dawna. That show was The Man From UNCLE on the frontier, as crazy as it sounds. In one episode they took on a megalomaniac who wanted to create an independent state between the U.S. and Mexico and had stolen the first copy of the United States constitution; in another someone tried to shoot the Mexican president and they had to figure out who was really behind it; in the other one the dwarfish villain Dr. Loveless faked his death and pretended to be his own neurosurgeon uncle.
By today's standards it was a cheesy show, especially the de rigeur fight scenes. Watching several episodes, you'll notice that the sets got recycled. (Big Brad's Bar seemed to be a chain with franchises all over the west!) One detail that bugs me is their getting orders from Washington by pigeon post: how can a carrier pigeon track down a moving railroad car?
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