Divers and Sundry

Valerie is a 1957 Western starring Anita Ekberg, Anthony Steele and Sterling Hayden. Not your typical Western, it's Rashoman-in-the-Wes...

spotted at the Memphis Botanic Gardens , where I've been spending a lot more time since The Husband bought that membership for me.

Lately, I've been looking in antique shops specifically for appealing cups and saucers, especially blue ones, without much luck. This o...

The Wabash Cannonball : sung here by Roy Acuff . I remember my daddy playing guitar and singing this when I was little.

" Watercolors by Bill Branch " is the current art exhibit at the Memphis Botanic Gardens . The artist has a website here . There i...

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski : read by Tom Waits . Here's the text: your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed int...

There is a magnolia trail towards the back of the Memphis Botanic Gardens. The trees are huge, and the flowers smell like heaven.

Open Culture has the list of books Ernest Hemingway recommended to a young man who wanted to be a writer: The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane ...

Crime and Punishment is a 2000 animated short retelling of the Dostoevsky novel with the same name. It's directed by Piotr Dumala , a P...

The Daughter wanted to go out for Indian food, so I found a place that has a buffet: Mayuri Indian Cuisine . I had never had Indian food be...

When I went to the Memphis Botanic Gardens to see the hydrangeas, there was a lot more to see. The lilies looked beautiful. My favorites ar...

Cauldron is a science fiction book by Jack McDevitt, the 6th novel in the Priscilla Hutchins series. If you liked the others, you'll l...

Originally released as part of the Grindhouse double feature, Planet Terror is a 2007 horror/dark comedy written and directed by Robert Ro...

Cheyenne is a 1947 Western film directed by Raoul Walsh ( The Big Trail with John Wayne, High Sierra with Humphrey Bogart, The Thief of B...

If you like a high of 96 degrees Fahrenheit and lots of sunshine (I do) then choosing this afternoon to see the hydrangeas at the Memphis B...

A long time ago, we enjoyed Earl Grey tea. We were partial to a blend we bought by mail order from Upton Tea . At some point the bergamot f...

Spiders is a 2013 horror/science fiction film about giant spiders that mutate from samples that survive the crashing of a piece of Soviet s...

Flavorwire has a list of 10 Forgotten Fantastical Novels You Should Read Immediately : Phantastes, George MacDonald Masters of Atlantis, Ch...

One day when they were out together, The Younger Son found this 42 and The Husband took a picture of it for me.

The Big Sleep is a 1946 Howard Hawks film noir starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, Elisha Cook, Jr. and Dorothy Malone...