Around The Bend

I Got You, Abe .....Thinking Lincoln at the Brooklyn Museum

“Think Lincoln.” That was the missive that Eugenie Tsai, contemporary-art curator at the Brooklyn Museum, sent out to her colleagues when the museum acquired a recent sculpture by Skylar Fein. The piece, Black Lincoln for Dooky Chase (2010), shows a silhouette of the 16th president superimposed on a menu board offering fried oysters, creole gumbo, and other treats. The board looks like the ones in Dooky Chase, a beloved New Orleans eatery, in olden times, before the restaurant was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. (It was later rebuilt.) Fein, a New York native who has lived in New Orleans since 2005, says he was inspired by a trip a teenage Lincoln took to the city, the site of notorious slave markets, an experience that may have influenced his decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation".
 

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Old geezer: Geezers, cars and style

OLD GEEZER: GEEZERS, CARS AND STYLE....Around the bend!
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"I am not sure this happens to every geezer, but it seems to me, that, as a bloke gets older, the size of his vehicle shrinks along with other parts of his body.

"You see guys like this everywhere – most noticeably at the supermarket. A once proud and confident man, who used to drive to the shops in his Holden, Falcon or Valiant, pulls up in something with a ridiculous name like ‘Vitz’ or ‘Demio’ or ‘Yaris’, and a throbbing 1.3 litre engine. The poor codger then makes sure Mum has the recycling bags and into Countdown they stagger.

"Countdown seems like an appropriate place for Vitzes and Yarises driven by the elderly and infirm, because there ain’t no New World thing going on". MORE

ROB HARLEY IS ONE OF NEW ZEALAND'S TOP DOCUMENTARY MAKERS, AN AUTHOR, AND A HIGHLY INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER. HE’S A WORLD RENOWNED STORY-TELLER, A SOMETIMES HARLEY-DAVIDSON RIDER AND A GREAT KIWI BLOKE.
 
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Hanky Panky.....Around the bend!

As I get older, I still like to say to people "I am still at the age, where I get to dress myself"! I turned 75 a few months ago, and some Sunday's when I am in church, folks will pay me a complement on how I am dressed. (I clean up pretty good). If it is a back-handed compliment, I have a reply ready for that: "I didn't know you guys worked on Sundays"? When they ask "Whaddiamean", I answer "Arn't you the fashion Police"! I've only used that twice... or once.

I learned how to dress from my Dad. He also taught me how to pick my nose with my thumb....but that's another story. Like men of his time, he always carried a clean white linen hanky. Recently, I noticed that my supply of clean white linen hankies (CWLH) was getting low. So I went and bought a new pack of 15 CWLH, and thought I did a SUPER job......until

I decided to collect my old faded white hankies (OFWH) to throw away...... and after finding two, inside my pants hanging up.....

I decided to check ALL my pants in the closets and folded in the drawers.... and found a total of FIFTEEN!

How could I have dropped the ball here?

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Matt Lauer interviews Don Knotts & Andy Griffith on The Today Show March 4, 1996
 
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Cow Cow Boogie - Ella Mae Morse & Liberace

"Ella Mae Morse was the sultry, swinging pop-jazz singer whose 1942 hit, ''Cow Cow Boogie,'' became the first million seller for Capitol Records and helped establish the label. This film clip is from a 1954 Liberace television show".
 
My Mom's Motorcycle: My Rode Reel

Around the bend....."My Mom's Motorcycle" by Douglas Gautraud
"This is a short film about how my mom became the owner of a motorcycle for the My Rode Reel competition. More deeply it is about how people use objects to connect with times, ideas, and people".
 
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The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down

This is not the version of ‘Don’t Let Me Down’ heard on the single but the version from the Let It Be… Naked album – a composite of both versions that were performed on the roof of Apple in Savile Row
 

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