For a business event, I stayed for one night at the Tree House Inn in Sunnyvale, Calif., a delightful and playful boutique hotel with a rustic theme, like an upscale Catskills resort with a sense of humor. Every room has a crate of old records in it. Though I was at the hotel for only 13 hours, I took some time to photograph every album in the crate in my room.
When I was checking out, the desk clerk told me that guests could request a record player and play the records.
Japanese architect Tadao Ando designed and donated a floating children’s library.
In a letter to the children, Ando writes: “I hope they will travel around the world aboard a ship of hope, equipped with the knowledge and imagination to do so. I hope that, by reading many books aboard the Children’s Library: Hon no Mori-go, children will discover a special book of their own, cultivate the ‘strength to live,’ and joyfully spread their wings from the Seto Inland Sea toward the great ocean of the wider world.”
I took Minnie back to the vet to check on the progress of her ulcerated eye and find out if we can stop giving her eyedrops and take the cone off her. The vet tech took her in back and I sat in the waiting room until they were done.
Two women came in with a chihuahua-terrier, who took one look at me and jumped up on the bench next to me. I gave him head-skritches and he curled up pressed against me at my side as if we had known each other our whole lives.
His name is Bear. I am now a king. Bear says so.
As for Minnie: Alas, she needs another week of the eyedrops and cone. We’ve only been doing the eyedrops-cone routine for a week. It took me a few days to get the hang of the eyedrops – it was a struggle getting her into position and I got more of the fluid on the side of her face than in her eye. I got good at it after a few days, but then I had to go out of town overnight and Julie had to start from scratch.
As for the cone: She only seemed interested in scratching at her eye occasionally, so we kept the cone off her when she was supervised. However, I think she was scratching her eye when we weren’t looking. So we will enact tighter cone discipline and take advantage of my exceptional eyedrop skills and hopefully all this will be behind us soon.
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Attack of the Night People [Cautionary Tales/Tim Hartford]: ‘If you tuned in to late-night WOR radio in 1950s New York, you’d enter the secret world of Jean Shepherd. Shepherd’s nonconformist style, off-beat humour and love of pranks gathered a small but loyal following. These “Night People” loved being in on the joke, while the oblivious “Day People” were often the butt of it. Shepherd’s show is long gone, but his spirit lives on in corners of the internet. Today, though, Night People go by a different name.”
“Starship Stormtroopers:” Writer Michael Moorcock writes about the prevalence of fascist themes in science fiction and fantasy. This 1977 essay is extremely relevant today. libcom.org/article/s…