Welcome to another installment of Movies, Movies, Movies! A little of this, a little of that, and one rant. The Last Duel (2021) Starring: Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, Adam Driver, Harriet Walter, Ben Affeck, Alex Lawther Director: Ridley Scott Genres: action, drama Synopsis: Set in the time of young (18!) King Charles the VI of…
Author: Lisa or Li
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dVerse – Monday Quadrille 146 — Red Church
It’s Callys today. Mindy brings Magners and water. Crunching veggie sticks with ranch we chat, from hiccup laughs to gasps. Soon arrives tomato soup with saltines and Vichyssoise. Monthly church of call and response; hushed whys turn wise in retrospect. Dessert: fresh strawberry pie. [44 words] Top image: “Red Church in Winter Scape,” by Yuri…
haiku — blue sky in winter with ELO and Steppenwolf
blue is battery charged from the sun that gets my motor running
#TSM 199 — Diamond T
American Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk Before his Time’s man of his own hour tick…tock ticks his jazz notes deep down cool fly by unsquare beats in arrhythmic meditative notes. Nirvana floats. from youtube comment: Just to put it all together: Thelonious Monk – piano Charlie Rouse – tenor Ben Riley – drums Larry…
whitney form — winter garden
Last week I went to the Monet Garden in town. I had heard that they put bubblers in the pond to keep the fish alive and I wanted to see it for myself. Not true. No evidence of life in the pond. I did, however use the opportunity to snap a few pictures. I saw…
#FF — Shelter
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson Shelter I remember my siblings and I chasing each other down wet alleys and hiding behind trash bins. We ate gritty mice and scraps of garbage – until the day we smelled something delicious in a box. We hunted it like lions. I, being boldest, pounced first. With the first…
The Second British Invasion Music Series — The Brit Box, Disc 2, Track 1, “Vapour Trail,” by Ride
Ride Tidbits: Ride are an English band formed in Oxford in 1988. The band consists of Andy Bell (vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica,) Mark Gardener (vocals, guitar,) Laurence “Loz” Colbert (drums,) and Steve Queralt (bass.) The band were initially part of the “shoegazing*” scene that emerged in England during the early 1990s. Nowhere is Ride’s debut…
