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Daily Diversion #122: What Year is This?

Posted on April 30, 2013 by maedez

View from Findlay Market, April 2013.

“I call architecture frozen music.”-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Posted on April 30, 2013 by maedez

Robert Louis Stevenson Quote

[Book Nerd Links] Writers’ Weird Obsessions

Posted on April 29, 2013 by maedez

The Literary Figures With the Weirdest Obsessions [courtesy Flavorwire]

Who do you think takes the prize for weirdness?

Back in Business!

Posted on April 29, 2013 by maedez

Our Internet is functioning again. I repeat: our Internet is functioning again! Please bear with me as I try to manipulate my professional life back to some kind of recognizable order. It might take a few days. Thank you for your patience. My readers are the best readers. Don’t even try to deny it, lovelies. This is how I feel right now, in no small part because of you…

A Gaiety Girl, 1893.

Internet Goblins 3, Maedez 0

Posted on April 27, 2013 by maedez

A very nice technician was able to restore our cable feed, but the goblins foiled his many heroic efforts to fix our Internet problem. The prognosis? It should be up and running by Monday afternoon. I could cry. I am going to drown my sorrows in the sweet satisfactions of a UK Kit Kat bar and a few pages of Shaw.

Internet Goblins: Update

Posted on April 24, 2013 by maedez

The Internet Goblins still have the upper hand, but not for long: everything will be fixed on Friday. I cannot wait to wholeheartedly re-join the WordPress community with deeper quality content than what I’ve been able to post these last few days. Thanks for hanging in there, dear readers. You are the best!

This is how I feel after 5 days without Internet access.

Brenda Starr, March 1947

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Posted on April 23, 2013 by maedez

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”-Richard Hughes

Books in Art: Tulipes perroquet, fond bibliotheque by Felix Vallotton

Posted on April 22, 2013 by maedez

Tulipes perroquet, fond bibliotheque by Felix Vallotton, 1920.

Tulipes perroquet, fond bibliotheque by Felix Vallotton

Daily Diversion #121: Book Review Queue

Posted on April 21, 2013 by maedez

Still no functioning Internet connection, thanks to ye olde goblins. Here’s a pile of books waiting to be reviewed upon its return.

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Posted on April 21, 2013 by maedez

“The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn’t thought about. At that moment he’s alive and you leave it to him.”-Graham Greene

R.I.P. Norman Lloyd (1914-2021)

Norman Lloyd, long a personal favorite of mine, was a fascinating man and performer. Norman Lloyd Dead [THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER]

R.I.P. Geoffrey Scott

Geoffrey Scott was from a younger generation than the performers I normally write about, but his handsome presence was ubiquitous during my 1980s childhood. From Dynasty to The Love Boat, Night Court, and Battle of the Network Stars, his charisma and acting ability lit up the small screen for decades. He will be missed. Geoffrey […]

Kirk Douglas: 1916-2020

[2019 Reel Infatuation Blogathon] But Baby Think of Me Once in Awhile: On Andy Travis as Television’s Best (and Hunkiest) Boss

Welcome to the 2019 Reel Infatuation Blogathon! Baby, If You’ve Ever Wondered: It still seems like yesterday that the idea for RI popped in my head. It was actually in December 2015, while in a hotel room getting ready for a holiday party, when it occurred to me that there was a gap in the classic […]

Announcing the 2019 Reel Infatuation Blogathon!

This is one of my favorite events of the year, and not just because I’m the co-hostess. It’s simply that good. And fun. Oh, so much fun! Here’s my original announcement. ANNOUNCING THE 2019 REEL INFATUATION BLOGATHON I hope you’ll join us!