Divers and Sundry

The Baron Arizona is a 1950 Samuel Fuller western starring Vincent Price, a fictionalized account of a true story of a man who almost succ...

Ecce Homo : by Bartolomeo Manfredi , c/1612, oil on canvas. This is on permanent display at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art . from t...

4/2/2018 edit: Privacy Badger was the culprit. Comments I leave on my own blog and on others are disappearing.  In the meantime, if yo...

Tulips are not my favorite flower but every year here I am wandering through the Dixon Gardens display of gorgeous tulips ...

13 Ghosts is a 1960 horror film directed by William Castle. A sweet family (husband, wife, son, daughter) inherit a haunted house. Margaret...

High Point Pizza is a neighborhood pizza parlor that opened in the High Point area in Memphis in 2007. You can  see their pizza menu her...

Two days ago I participated in the Memphis march that was part of March for Our Lives . The main rally was in Washington, D.C., but there ...

The Annunciation (1520-1525): by Andrea Previtali . This was a gift to the Brooks Museum of Art by the Kress Foundation . The Feast of t...

These cherry trees are all along the road between the Audubon Park golf course and the Memphis Botanic Gardens. They don...

My Cousin Vinny is a 1992 comedy starring Joe Pesci, Ralph Macchio, Marisa Tomei, Mitchell Whitfield, Fred Gwynne (in his last film before ...

Chasm City is a 2001 award-winning science fiction book by Alastair Reynolds. I found it fascinating, a real page-turner, with intriguin...

Armored is a 2009 heist film starring Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, and Laurence Fishburne as armored car drivers who decide to steal 42 million ...

Dino's Grill is a Memphis restaurant that has been around a long time, but we had never eaten there. I enjoy going places I've nev...

The Baker's Wife is a 1938 French film directed by Marcel Pagnol. It's a comedy about a baker whose young wife leaves him for a han...

Somebody's getting creative with the light poles on this street.

Highway 61 : sung by Sunnyland Slim . He was born in Mississippi in 1906 and moved to Memphis in 1925. He moved to Chicago in 1942 and ...

The Shape of Water is a 2017 award-winning fantasy film directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Sally Hawkins (Mrs. Brown in the recent...

A recent trip to the Botanic Gardens showed that our unwillingness to go there in the cold, dreary rain made us miss the height of the da...