Archive for the 'General' Category

February
26

Vacquerie Did It

Posted by Reely, on February 26, 2008 at 5:23 pm.
Categories: General

Ah, no wonder that picture looked like Victor Hugo to me - it is Victor Hugo! And actually it’s a photograph that was taken by Vacquerie. There it is on the left.

On the right is (from left to right) Hugo’s son, Francois and Auguste Vacquerie with Hugo (sitting down).
Auguste’s brother, […]

October
17

My Last Duchess - what’s not to like?

Posted by Reely, on October 17, 2007 at 8:15 am.
Categories: General

I happened to notice today that 17% of the total vote for Robert Browning’s MY LAST DUCHESS has been “No” - a lot of people don’t seem to like this poem and that just may be the highest percentage of No votes on any one poem so far. Just wondering if it’s the poem […]

May
14

The Road Not Taken and other Robert Frost Audio Links

Posted by Reely, on May 14, 2007 at 8:41 pm.
Categories: General

Wikipedia used to have a lot more information on “The Road Not Taken” but, evidently, there was quite a bit of vandalism, and they deleted it all. Someone came in and replaced the whole page with the phrase “Reed Ryan has no balls.” Another person keeps adding the clause ‘tells how much I […]

April
13

Governor Corzine seriously injured

Posted by Reely, on April 13, 2007 at 10:49 am.
Categories: General

Wow - I couldn’t believe that the NJ Governor was in a car crash on the way to the Imus/Rutgers meeting. Kinda makes you wonder if they had just had a meeting between the team and Imus in NYC and left Sharpton and all that out of it, would the meeting have ended up […]

April
10

The Keep It Real Don Imus Poll

Posted by Reely, on April 10, 2007 at 10:10 pm.
Categories: General

The Keep It Real Don Imus Poll

I really think

Don Imus’ remarks were stupid and inappropriate, but not meant to be degrading.

it was a deliberate racial attack meant to be demeaning.

it was meant as comedy, but it wasn’t funny

it was meant as comedy and it was funny.

it was offensive because I never talk that […]