Looks like it’s video week at VatulBlog. Nyeah na na na na na na na … don’t want to be like everybody else:
A presentation on GIS put together by Allan Laframboise for middle-schoolers. It is visually-pleasing, crisp and understandable, thus making it a must watch for all ages.
A bit harsh, but not totally untrue (and it’s primates; the monkeys want to have nothing to do with it):
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A guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric.
Seems like a lifetime ago. And perhaps it was.
My cousin Bina gets married this weekend. Last night, I scoured hard drives for pictures of us and came across a set from early 2005, when Bina and her husband-to-be Andy stayed with us over the Krewe du Vieux parade weekend. I remember walking around the Lower Garden District with them and stopping in front of the Coliseum Theatre, where Louis watched Tequila Sunrise (did you know Anne Rice initially wrote Lestat with Rutger Hauer in mind? “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.”)
I loved that building. Katrina’s winds and rains turned it into this:
It reminds me of the back cover of Styx’s Paradise Theatre, which we lost when our home was thoroughly looted during the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Then, just as soon as it promised to come back, the Coliseum burned down in early 2006. Loss wrapped in loss framed in loss.
Seems like a lifetime ago.
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