Showing posts with label good old days. Show all posts
Showing posts with label good old days. Show all posts

2017-06-13

Apparently I'm back.

Coyote sightings on the rise in 2017, says CBC.

...it's so good to be remembered and appreciated...

2010-01-21

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry you wrote Love Story

The New York Times announced this morning that Love Story author Erich Segal has died.

Some of the younger among you won't remember this (extremely) slim bestseller. That is good.

Just take it as a salutary warning that when the inevitable weepy movie appeared in 1970, the world was blessed with Ryan O'Neal and Ali McGraw as nanosecond superstars.

And that, back in the day, Love Story and Jonathon Livingston Seagull almost completely defined the philosophical thought of a, ummm, certain generation.

All of which may explain why many things so often screech sideways, now that this ummm, generation is runnin' things. I'm just sayin'...

2009-02-04

OCTranspo: A streetcar named disaster



Back in the day, we knew how to rebound from a transit disruption [read more]


Newspaper item: New York Times, July 19, 1919; Photo: Wikimedia