Monthly Archives: July 2024

January 7, 1987 – Everglades City – Journal

July 31, 2024 – 9:51 pm

Tomorrow a winter storm will be hitting the Gulf Coast and late afternoon I left Sarasota Miami bound. Storm clouds westrising over the western horizen and I thought about stopping for the night. Pam Vaughan, my hostess on Siesta Key, had holidayed at the Rod and Reel Club and suggested staying the night at a […]

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A HERO OF OUR TIME by Mikhail Lermontov

July 30, 2024 – 2:55 pm

Written 2016 Mikhail Lermontov wrote A HERO OF OUR TIME in 1839. The short novel romanticized the life on the frontier of the Caucasian kingdoms. Lermontov was a troubled soul and spent two exiles with the Army of the Don fighting the rebel mountaineers. Lermontov painted and drew scenes from his service. A world lost […]

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A Bacchanalian Mirage

July 30, 2024 – 12:23 pm

Associated Press – Paris Olympics organizers apologized to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ during the glamorous opening ceremony, but defended the concept behind it Sunday. Da Vinci’s painting depicts the moment when Jesus Christ declared that an apostle would betray him. The scene during Friday’s […]

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Jesus Everywhere Even Paris

July 30, 2024 – 12:22 pm

According to the Baltimore Cathecism of my youth, God is omnipotent, all-knowing, and omnipresent, so that Christians seek to see their God everywhere, as happened in the Dionysius tableau on the Paris bridge for the Olympics Spectacle. They saw blasphemy, instead of recognize the Last Supper as miracle, although they see Jesus everywhere. Believers in […]

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Off With Their Heads – Marie Antoinette – Olympic Opening Spectacular

July 30, 2024 – 12:20 pm

One more from the opening ceremony of the Olympics 2024 in France The author and translator Bérengère Viennot had the final word. “This ceremony married classical and popular culture, atrocious taste and High History, wokeism and unchecked humour, technical prowess and the genius of Piaf – and has succeeded in provoking a terrific argument,” she […]

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