ADVENT CALENDARS: GENGENBACH’S AND PENZEY’S
TODAY, DECEMBER 9 IS THE NINTH DAY OF ADVENT, beginning on the fourth Sunday before Christmas. Wikipedia notes, “The name comes from Latin adventus (‘coming; arrival’).” Here are tidbits about calendars announcing … Continue reading
TRUMP AND SCIENCE/TECH PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE EXAMINED AN ARTICLE IN SCIENCE addressing funding cuts and policy shifts likely with a second Trump administration. This continues today in Part 2. “Go Wild” on Health, Medicines, … Continue reading
TRUMP AND SCIENCE/TECH PART 1
PERHAPS YOU’VE NOTICED, SCI-TECH IS ONE OF THE eight categories of SimanaitisSays. The others: Classic (largely focused on old R&Ts), Trippin’ (my Baedekers and personal travel), Editor (language and word … Continue reading
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND “BRAIN ROT” PART 1
GIVEN THAT 49.9 PERCENT OF U.S. VOTERS chose Trump, it comes as no surprise that “brain rot” has been named the Oxford Word of the Year. Here, in Parts 1 … Continue reading
OF THEE I SING—A POLITICAL SATIRE
THE GOINGS-ON OF THE PRE-PRESIDENT and his Project 2025-inspired bunch of whackos display elements of Theatre of the Absurd considerably beyond that of mere satire. With this in mind, though, … Continue reading
WHOM—AND WHAT—DO I TRUST?
IN THESE DAYS OF RAMPANT MIS- AND DISINFORMATION, what sources should we trust? And, note well, we don’t necessarily have to agree with these sources, but rather put faith in … Continue reading
RADIO FOLKS IN THE MOVIES
GIVEN MY DUAL APPRECIATION OF old-time radio (via SiriusXM “Radio Classics”) and old-time movies (via Turner Classic Movies), it’s not surprising that I find occasional delight in the latter containing … Continue reading
RESIDING IN THE THIRTIES, SORTA PART 2
YESTERDAY WHAT A WIDOW! was identified as a first of 1930s’ movies with architecturally significant set design. Today in Part 2, Donald Albrecht’s book Designing Dream: Modern Architecture in the … Continue reading
RESIDING IN THE THIRTIES, SORTA PART 1
THANKS TO TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES, part of me seems to reside in the 1930s. Recently, I’ve enjoyed Dinner at Eight, 1933; Transatlantic Tunnel; 1935, and Broadway Melody of 1936, 1935. … Continue reading
CELEBRATING JIM FRENCH’S MEETING OF THE MINDS
I RECENTLY ENJOYED (YET AGAIN) A PARTICULAR HARRY NILE adventure, one of Jim French’s Imagination Theatre productions out of Seattle. These radio programs were originally broadcast 1976–2010 in a variety … Continue reading
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