Last weekend older son and I drove over to Grand Rapids and met up with younger son, his wife, and my grandbaby at Blandford Nature Center to walk the trails and to visit the farm part of the property to see the goats and chickens and to check out the large community garden the place…
Category: Friday Favorite Feature
Friday Favorite Feature 10 — (TV series) Poker Face (2023)
image link The first time I saw Natasha Lyonne was in a few episodes of, “Orange is the New Black” back when it first started, in 2013. Can’t remember whether I finished watching S1 or not but did not watch beyond it for sure. From what I remember of the series about women in prison…
Friday Favorite Feature 9 — Daddy’z Breakdown
Daddy’z Breakdown jpg from their inactive facebook page The first/only time I heard Daddy’z Breakdown was in 2010, at a little bar in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where we had gone to see another band (Dutch Henry) in the lineup. They had just released their eponymous debut (and only, to date) album and were selling them…
Friday Favorite Feature 8 — tiramisu
image by: Raffaele Diomede from Pordenone, ITALIA Trying to choose a favorite dessert for me is an exercise in futility as there are so many contenders. Today I choose tiramisu as the subject of my Friday Favorite Feature. Wikipedia describes Tiramisu as: Tiramisu (Italian: tiramisù [ˌtiramiˈsu], from tirami su, “pick me up” or “cheer me…
Friday Favorite Feature 7 — Lake Bluff Grille
Yesterday there was a huge book sale at another branch of our library system. Trish and I decided to go to look for books and magazines with good images for collages to use with the dream group. It was both exciting and concerning to see how many GOOD books were being culled from the library…
Friday Favorite Feature 6 — The Church of Tarantino podcast and Mary Ramos, Tarantino’s Music Supervisor
Quentin Tarantino I randomly happened across mention of, “The Church of Tarantino” podcast on facebook and immediately went to Spotify to find it. Have only listened to the prologue so far, which I will include at the bottom of this post. Very much looking forward to listening to others who love Tarantino go through his…
Friday Favorite Feature 5 — Mitski’s new album, “The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We”
Sometimes, Mitski feels life would be easier without hope, or a soul, or love. But when she closes her eyes and thinks about what’s truly hers, what can’t be repossessed or demolished, she sees love. “The best thing I ever did in my life was to love people,” she says. “I wish I could leave…
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