Stayed up late last night and watched a show on PBS that is on all week long. It is called Carrier and is about the people on board the USS Nimitz. This is a documentary but very well done. I added some music to the ipod this weekend so let’s see what comes up. Daddy [...]
Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn; 2007; Atria Books, New York, NY; 403 pages; 978-0-7432-7041-0; 4/19-4/21 Mitch Rapp is back for another adventure, with this decades villain d’jour, the Iraqi’s. Things are going along quite well, until the director of the CIA meets with an Iraqi minister of something and is kidnapped. Mitch is given [...]
Cheek to Cheek/Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong/Forever Gold. The gravel in Louis’s voice is matched by the sweetness in Ella’s. These two friends recorded at least two albums of material together and this is one of my favorites. Louie, Louie/The Kingsmen/The Very Best of the Kingsmen. The unofficial rock anthem of the Pacific Northwest. This [...]
Education for Extinction, American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 by David Wallace Adams; 1995; University Press of Kansas,Lawrence, KS; 396 pages; ILL from University of Portland; 0-7006-0735-8; 4/9-4/19 We need to awaken in him wants. In his dull savagery he must be touched by the wings of the divine angel of discontent. Then [...]
Where are you, Caboy? Our head wrangler at Young Life’s Woodleaf was Pat Day, whom we called Caboy, not Cowboy, but Caboy. All of us cowboy and cowgirls were posers except for Pat. He handled the horses and all the rest of us around the horses real well. He and the other wranglers would take [...]
