Edward Hopper was an interesting find the other day. I was doing a search for Norman Rockwell images when Hopper’s name was given as a related search. Wikipedia calls him a ‘realist’, I would have said minimalist. Either way, I like him.
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Pearls Before Swine
Just tell me who to poke!
Why do cats and dogs need different balls?
Get Fuzzy
You can’t be too careful with your balls.
The world owes me!
How rude.
When is 12 really 11?
When you are a WordPress.com customer! It took me a few years to figure out what was going on. I’d started a blog in December one year, and the next thing I knew, I was renewing the $26 annual fee in August! I was thinking, “How does that work?”
Being a veritable mathematics genius, I knew 12 months equaled 1 year. Which is another way of saying annual. WordPress did this forced renewal at 11 months! Taking a month off an annual fee gives corporate profits a nice 8.33 % boost! Not bad….
Then they took away the option of renewing manually say at 11 months 27 days (a couple a days for cushion not to lose your domain name), and instituted an “auto renewal” system. Which locked you into the 11 month thing.
Which is a long way to say that is why this domain changed from Iowalife.org to IowaLifedotorg.wordpress.com , the “free side”. I would have been happy to pay $26 dollars a year for my own domain name, but I’ll be damned if I’ll pay a “yearly” fee every 11 months.
Only at the fair
There are certain things in Iowa Life you can only experience at the Iowa State Fair. Having two strangers walk up to you on the grand concourse wanting to talk to you about Jesus is one of them. Josh and Cole are 2 exceptional youth from the Des Moines area that are ‘taking it to the streets’.
I might have been sitting next to the next President of the United States. That is John Habjan of the Constitutional Conservative Party getting ballot access signatures on petitions in order to be on the Iowa ballot for president! If you’re getting signatures in August, your chances might not be all that great… http://www.ccparty.us
For a photographer the highlight of the Fair is the photo competition in the cultural building. What the judges are thinking oftentimes is beyond me.
Sonya Finch of Grinnell had one of the Top 10 photos of the competition, and did she get ANYTHING? Nope. But several falling down barns got ribbons … . Judges.
The line to see the butter cow / butter Star Trek was already unreal before 9 am.
$6 for a corndog? I don’t think so. Take 50 % tax of zero, State of Iowa. $6 ? That’s way too close to a lot of peoples hourly wage of $7.25.
The State of Iowa hasn’t figured out (yet) how to charge for looking at the animals in the barn. Give them time.
[photos by DME]
If you were coming in the Fall, I’d brush the Summer by
If you were coming in the Fall,
I’d brush the Summer by
With half a smile, and half a spurn,
As Housewives do, a Fly.
If I could see you in a year,
I’d wind the months in balls—
And put them each in separate Drawers,
For fear the numbers fuse—
If only Centuries, delayed,
I’d count them on my Hand,
Subtracting, til my fingers dropped
Into Van Dieman’s Land,
If certain, when this life was out—
That yours and mine, should be
I’d toss it yonder, like a Rind,
And take Eternity—
But, now, uncertain of the length
Of this, that is between,
It goads me, like the Goblin Bee—
That will not state— its sting.
Emily Dickinson
(I think the air is better in the fall)
[AllPoetry.com]
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
“next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn’s early my
country ’tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?”
e e cummings
Goodnight!
Good grief Michele Diane Brown, been living at the gym have we? Gun show! Talk about buff… Here is a series of pictures of the most beautiful woman in Iowa!
Look at that face. Is that a face? That’s a face. Look at that hair. She’s wearing BDU jeans and a hoodie! How does she do it?? Some guy’s lucky, I wonder if he has any idea how lucky?
The woman doesn’t age!
This is a typical Facebook photo of MDB’s show on KCWI.
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