February 2012
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January 2012
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strobehearted asked: This is regarding your grandfather, whose autograph book you featured, was he an illustrator, as well? (sidenote: I love this post because my husband is a comics critic and has a series of books of artists sketches -- autographs of their kind, I guess.)
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djgagnon replied to your photoset: New Year’s 1953, Kingston, Ontario Photos taken…
Nice!
Thanks! And Happy New Year!
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December 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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scout1222 replied to your photoset: Would you take sex advice from this man? I should…
I can’t wait. Idiot child left to die! What a headline.
I know, right? The article’s pretty depressing actually, even with the paper’s obvious sympathy for the “idiot child” and her sinfully single mother. Boy 1950, you sure were judgy!
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djgagnon replied to your post: What you have to get over
Nice photos!
Thanks! They’re from the winter before last - an astrophysicist from Queen’s assured us that the freeze-thaw-wind-freeze conditions had been perfect for safe skating out on the Lake. We started out at the Yacht Club and skated about 3/4 the way to Wolfe Island - smooth sailing most of the way!
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What you have to get over
Stumps. Railroad tracks. Early sicknesses, the blue one, especially. Your first love rounding a corner, that snowy minefield.
Whether you step lightly or heavily, you have to get over to that tree line a hundred yards in the distance before evening falls, letting no one see you wend your way,
that wonderful, old-fashioned word, wend, meaning “to proceed, to journey, to travel from one place...
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Hahaha! Never!
djgagnon replied to your photoset: Something to ponder while munching your Corn…
Dr and Mrs Kellogg really had their fingers on ‘the pulse’ … but … indecent jests and allusions … on Tumblr??
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Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the...
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“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make...”
– Pearl S. Buck (via bookmania)
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djgagnon replied to your photo: This is a sexier cover than you usually see for…
Intercolonial Railway facilities right at the harbour! More train pictures! … Wonder if this, Cruel Sea, Two Solitudes are still taught in high school.
Yes! More train pictures! I have no idea what the current high school reads would be, but now I’m curious … must find teenager types and ask.
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ummsomeone replied to your photo: “What’s agitating about solitude is the inner…
bit of a hopper fan, are you? do you like pollock?
I do like Pollock now, but didn’t always. For years I found his work too chaotic - really the polar opposite of Hopper’s realism and clean lines and themes of aloneness. But he (Pollock) has grown on me somehow. Maybe the chaos better reflects my...
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“Fifteen to eighteen percent of girls under twelve now wear mascara, eyeliner and...”
– “How To Talk To Little Girls” by Lisa Bloom
BE BRAVE! JOIN THE REVOLUTION!
(via stophatingyourbody)
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djgagnon asked: We are steeped in corvette history here. I'm pretty sure my father taught "The Cruel Sea" in school and I have read it and we watch the DVD here every six months or so. There was also a Canadian wartime movie (K-225?) which ran on PBS years ago. My father also built a (1:72?) model of a corvette after he retired. Placed on top of a standard kitchen stove, the ends would probably...
djgagnon asked: Neat cards and explanations. Was your grandfather in the Merchant Marine?
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