Hello all! There aren’t many days left in 2025 and the nights are far too long. Time to do a post on my favorite TV shows and movies. You’ll notice quite a few 2024 releases and some even older releases. Before I start, I just browsed Rotten Tomatoes’ top 100 films of 2025 and found…
2025: the year in reading
Since I stopped using Firefox for my browser, I lost all of those cool apps I had, like screen shots. I can’t figure out how to get an app that works on the PC that will do screen shots on Duck Duck Go, so I went the mechanical way and took pics of the books…
#TNG 105 / 227 (photographs)
Judy Dykstra-Brown is the host of The Numbers Game. To play, go to your media search box and type in 227 and share photos from what pops up. Here are mine, in a slide show. Look for the little arrow to the right of the pic to advance it.
from The Current: When the Only Watchdog Won’t Bark
by David Holtz12/22/25 When a federal judge ruled last week that Michigan lacks the authority to shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac, the decision was framed as a narrow question of federal preemption. Judge Robert Jonker concluded that only the federal government—under the Pipeline Safety Act—has authority over pipeline safety,…
Celebrity Skin and The Family
Celebrity Skin and The Family For some of us who find we need respite from reality, escaping into the fantasy of music, movies, tv series, video games, dreams (through sleeping) etc. can become a habit at best and dissociation at worst. Vonnegut, in his book, “Farenheit 451” wrote about “The Family,” which resided in a…
#SLS — “Snakes and Ladders” by Joni Mitchell from Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm
After trying to find out what animals are rodents, I tried to find a song with one of the more unusual ones, including chinchillas and beavers. I learned that rap artists love to use chinchilla fur as a symbol of luxury. Beavers have a connotation that some might find objectionable so I skipped them. I…
Tao Talk 