Marty’s blog

The Frau dragged me over to the Chicago Botanical Gardens this morning.  She wanted to check out the Japanese gardens especially, to get some ideas for an area on our lot.  Glad I went, and we both got a lot of ideas that will help us with our whole landscape - ended up gleaning a few [...]

America welcomes a new art form.  High Style Racism.  This is the most sophisticated coded racist ad so far in the campaign.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/25/mccain-ad-clinton-support_n_121079.html
Watch it a few times, you’ll see.  If you’re smart, you’ll have to watch it once or twice before you get it.  If you’re stupid, you’ll get it right away.
You ask if there’s evil [...]

This blog is getting hit big time by spam “comments”.  Just so you know that I don’t moderate, edit or block comments - but I do have to run an aggressive spam filter, and so comments don’t get posted until I can OK them.  Sorry!  The few comments and emails I do get are very welcome, so by [...]

Biofuels, food crops straining world water reserves: experts
Yeah, I know, this is the kind of stuff people just don’t want to hear.  I’m tired of it too!  But right now it’s where we’re heading, folks.  The future we’re creating is not that hard to see if you look, and some days I get really weary [...]

An interesting day in politics.  There are few better.  And more ahead before the sun sets. 
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I set out this morning to get a lot of work done around the house.  A few errands until lunch, and then that whole plan was out the window.  I intended only to take a short stroll through the “back yard”.
But the mosquito numbers were down, due the dry weather and cool nights, the ground [...]

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This is one of my favorite video blogs. 
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Separate subject:  Thanks, Eric!  Though some people here would say: “don’t encourage him!”

My favorite Neil Young song.
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Crappy video, but it really doesn’t matter.  I could listen to him all day.  Gotta see him perform live before one of us dies.  Lost my CD - still have the case - must be around somewhere.

Wow!  I had no idea Ida Haendel was still playing, and still going strong at 80!
(Here’s part two).  The Chausson is not an easy piece to play, and it takes some stamina.  She still plays with such intensity.  And she still makes it look easy!  (Though she was never one to be jumping all over [...]

John McCain.  Just a regular guy like me.  Don’t know about you, but I always lose count of my mansions.
Now that Obama guy, he’s just too strange!  Too different!  Not like me at all.  And his father is from a foreign country - in AFRICA!  OHMYGOD!  How could he be patriotic?  Anyhow, those black people just [...]