My Old Ass (2024)

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My Old Ass (2024): A teen celebrates her 18th birthday with a mushroom trip and meets her 39 year-old self, who offers her a problematic warning about her future. A light-hearted drama that packs a wallop, a lesson not only for the teen, but for her older self as well. B-

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Replanting Richardson on the Down-Low

Someone informed me of some landscaping changes on Main Street in downtown Richardson. The trees in the median were reportedly ripped out and replaced by shrubs. Someone said it's the second time. That can't be, I thought. The trees were just planted. The Main Street redevelopment project was just celebrated in October, 2021. Sad to say, the news appears to be true, as the photo above shows.

POTD: The Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia

"Mosques stand side by side.
Minarets pierce clouds with grace.
Blue domes kiss the sky."

— h/t ChatGPT

From 2024 05 06 Istanbul

Today's photo-of-the-day is of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul. The Blue Mosque was completed in 1616. It was designed as an imperial show of strength. If you think the Blue Mosque is old, look next door at the Hagia Sophia, completed over a thousand years earlier in 537 CE. Hagia Sophia was a Christian church until 1453, when it was converted to a mosque. It was the world's largest building for nearly a thousand years.

A photo of Hagia Sophia is after the jump.

POTD: First Stop, Istanbul

"East and West embrace,
bridging time and continents.
Istanbul welcomes."

— h/t ChatGPT

From 2024 05 06 Istanbul

Today's photo-of-the-day is from Istanbul, Turkey, one of the world's great cities for 2,000 years. It's the gateway between Europe and Asia, between East and West, between modernity and history. Travel there from the West and it feels exotic. Arrive from the East and it feels like you are back in familiar surroundings. It's chaotic and wonderful at once.

A bonus photo is after the jump.

Two Days, Two Presidents, Two Value Systems

Two social media posts in two days.

One President with some Girl Scouts, pitching a documentary about our oceans.

One pitching guitars for $1,500 (or, if autographed by the Grifter-in-Chief himself, for $10,000).

I miss one of these guys.