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Making matching Tie Dye for my toddler’s 2nd birthday!! Casino is a fishing standard deck playing card game based on the traditional Italian game Scopa.    https://whop.com/checkout/plan_srB0tl4dyWlGO?d2c=true

Updates: Just to give Warren Wilson some love, I think they won yesterday. No box scores on the NCAA site or either of the schools’ sites. The stream looks to be a set four ending in 15-13. So, this was the kind of hell I would have had to go through to list the match… Continue reading Tuesday, Sept 30 Match Day!

S. Samek The PBA Tour has announced the winners of several awards for the 2025 season including the coveted player of the year award. The first award was the Tony Reyes service award, and it went to Chris Via. The second award was the Steve Nagy sportsmanship award, and it went to Deo Bernard. Bernard … Continue reading “2025 PBA Tour Award Winners Announced”

Arrigo Barnabé is a prominent Brazilian composer, singer, pianist, and actor, known for his experimental approach mixing classical avant-garde techniques with popular music. Barnabé is best known for an experimental musical style rooted in avant-garde classical techniques — especially dodecaphonism (the twelve-tone technique) and atonalism — blended with popular music, rock, theatrical/performance elements, social commentary, often… Continue reading ARRIGO BARNABÉ – Acapulco

Arrigo Barnabé is a prominent Brazilian composer, singer, pianist, and actor, known for his experimental approach mixing classical avant-garde techniques with popular music. Barnabé is best known for an experimental musical style rooted in avant-garde classical techniques — especially dodecaphonism (the twelve-tone technique) and atonalism — blended with popular music, rock, theatrical/performance elements, social commentary,… Continue reading ARRIGO BARNABÉ – Live on Cena Mu

Director: Ron Oliver Starring: B.J. Britt, Jonathan Bennett, Tyler Hynes A pediatrician and an overseas doctor, meet at a wedding in Philadelphia, but the long distance, family, and their friends may hinder their budding romance. Let’s face it, Hallmark movies are cheesy and the premise often feels like an episode from a daily soap rather […]

The AVCA has released their Top 25 for Week 5. The AVCA has kept La Verne as their first choice for the second straight week as they firmed up their support by getting 6 additional first-place votes. They now have 80 of the 86. ETBU again finished second receiving 4 first-place votes (the same as last… Continue reading AVCA Top 25 (9/30/25)

Today’s new Travalanche posts for September 30, 2025 include ones on director Lewis Milestone, chorus girl Blanche Satchel, actor Frank Lawton (in stereo), and my recommendations for International Podcast Day. Earlier Travalanche posts for September 30 include ones on: The Gabor Sisters Truman Capote Fran Drescher and The Nanny Angie Dickinson and Police Woman Marc […]

Today’s new Travalanche posts for September 30, 2025 include ones on director Lewis Milestone, chorus girl Blanche Satchel, actor Frank Lawton (in stereo), and my recommendations for International Podcast Day. Earlier Travalanche posts for September 30 include ones on: The Gabor Sisters Truman Capote Fran Drescher and The Nanny Angie Dickinson and Police Woman Marc […]

Back in my working days, I often met people for lunch or drinks at the Old Ebbitt Grill. It’s at 675 15th Street, NW, right across 15th Street from the Treasury Department building and a short block from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, an address that will come up again presently. Old Ebbitt has in an ideal location, and I remember a few years back reading that … Continue reading Old Ebbitt Grill, Downtown, Washington, DC

El mito de la Caverna es el texto central de la República y uno de los párrafos mas conocidos y comentados de toda la historia de la Filosofía. Platón se sirve de esta alegoría para exponer su teoría acerca de la realidad (La Teoría de las Ideas) y sus ideas acerca de la educación del sabio, quien es el llamado para gobernar la utópica República. Voy a […]

¿Quién debe gobernar? En su teoría política Platón parte de una serie de ideas psicológicas; el alma de cada persona está compuesta de tres partes, apetito, coraje e inteligencia. En diferentes personas predominan de manera distinta, por lo que unas de ellas tenderán por naturaleza a desarrollar una actividad y otras otra. Para Platón también […]

This International Podcast Day finds me chagrined to report that I have nothing new of my own to share or announce, apart from general intention to create new stuff for The Year of Vaudeville. I was a guest on two or three different podcast shows during 2025, but none of those programs have been released […]

This International Podcast Day finds me chagrined to report that I have nothing new of my own to share or announce, apart from general intention to create new stuff for The Year of Vaudeville. I was a guest on two or three different podcast shows during 2025, but none of those programs have been released […]

S. Samek One of the questions for the incoming offseason for the Pittsburgh Pirates was t if interim manager Don Kelly would be back for 2026. However there won’t be much time for discussion or speculating about it as they have announced an extension for him. The Pirates went 59-65 under Kelly this season with … Continue reading “Kelly’s Contract Extended by Pittsburgh Pirates”

S. Samek The regular season is over, and we now move on to the MLB playoffs. First up is the Wildcard round. Let’s preview the matchups and make some predictions for the winners. Each series is best of three during the round. American League Detroit Tigers vs Cleveland Guardians It’s the battle of the AL … Continue reading “2025 MLB Wild Card Playoffs”

Joy and I went to see A Big Bold Beautiful Journey last weekend, and neither of us were particularly taken with it. But it gave me a good idea. Let’s choose from 3 movies that fall under the subgenre of fantasy romance. … Continue reading →

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Comenzamos nuestro primer día completo de viaje sobre las ocho de la mañana. El plan era visitar la ciudad vecina de Mainz, pero dado que el Hessenticket no se puede usar hasta las 9, antes dimos un paseo por el… Continue reading →