Great grinding jaws stalk dormant leafless stretches ofbirch and pine. Hawks huntfleeing hare and mice, afrightunder a pale yellow sun. For months, a crew of tree service people have been working to clear the power lines on a five-mile stretch of road (and probably more, but I only see them on the stretch I regularly…
Month: March 2021
2021 MOVIE DRAFT- ROUND 5 PICK 4- MSJADELI SELECTS- NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND — slicethelife
Round 5, Pick 4, March 4, 2021 Title: “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” Writer and Director: Hayao Miyazaki Genre: anime (Japanese animation) Length: 1 hour, 57 minutes Awards: 3 wins and 1 nomination Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is a 1984 Japanese anime film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based […]…
Women Music March 2021 – Day 4 – Jessi Colter
Mirriam Johnson (born May 25, 1943), known professionally as Jessi Colter, is an American country music artist who is best known for her collaborations with her husband, country singer and songwriter Waylon Jennings, and for her 1975 country-pop crossover hit “I’m Not Lisa“. Colter was one of the few female artists to emerge from the…
#FF — Mysterious Benefactor
PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot Once a month for ten years, each of the six received a plain white envelope with two-hundred in twenties. It had gotten them by in thin times and made possible a few extras in good times – until their neighborhood’s gentrification meant others’ envelopes with eviction notices. Impending homelessness had…
k.d. lang — Women Music March 2021 – Day 3
k. d. lang Kathryn Dawn Lang OC AOE (born November 2, 1961), known by her stylized stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress. lang has won Juno Awards and Grammy Awards for her musical performances. Hits include the songs “Constant Craving” and “Miss Chatelaine“. A mezzo-soprano, lang has…
dVerse — Poetics — Lonely Strangers
The first time I saw him was in the 90’s, when I worked as a receptionist at the health department. He was a little man with white hair and a serious expression. He said he’d cut his leg and needed medical treatment. He didn’t know that the health department only treated Sexually Transmitted Infections, dispersed…
Movies, Movies, Movies! #74 – March 2, 2021
Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! Another one in a roll of good batches. Tenet (2020) Starring: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Clemence Poesy, Dimple Kapadia, Himesh Patel, Michael Caine, and many others. Director: Christopher Nolan Genres: action, sci-fi Synopsis: because I need to watch this a…
Tao-Talk 