In 2001 I brought into my life a little kitten, after over a decade of no pets.  I had to be gone during the day, and she was lonely.  Next door there was an old car, and I saw this tiny kitten sunning himself on the hood.  After quite the chase, I captured him and brought him home to be a companion for Jinjur.  I named him after Django Reinhardt but then I found out Jerry Jeff's boy was named that so I changed it to Jango.  I like being original.  He is the sweetest and most retiring cat I have ever met.  He is in great shape and he sleeps a lot, perfect behavior for a cat.  I love him so. Jango is my darling!

The one on the left is Donnie Dunegan, voice of young Bambi.  The one on the right is Captain Dunegan, wounded Vietnam veteran and youngest Drill Instructor in the Corps.  Captain, later Major, lived in fear of one thing and one thing only, that his fellow Marines would discover his acting career. https://youtu.be/5m-8XsfK57A Boris Karloff and Donnie on the set of Son of Frankenstein. Some will recall my post on the tragic Disney actor, Bobby Driskoll.  Dunegan forgot about his Hollywood stint, joined the Corps, and led an exceptional life.  He now lives in San Angelo, Texas.  Somewhere both of these young men made a decision and ended up as polar opposites.   https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/2016/11/bobby-driscoll.html Now in his eighties, this outstanding man is vigorous and active.  He is a Texan to be proud of.  I guess that character will out.  He raised a great family and served thi...

TYME SEFARI INC.    SEFARIS TU ANY YEER EN THE PAST.    YU NAIM THE ANIMALL.     WEE TAEK YU THAIR.    YU SHOOT ITT. "Who won the presidential election yesterday?  The man behind the desk laughed.  "You joking? You know very well. Deutscher, of course!  Who else?  Not that fool weakling Keith!  We got an Iron Man now, a man with guts"!  The official stopped.  "What's wrong"? Eckels moaned.  He dropped to his knees.  He scrabbled at the golden butterfly with shaking fingers.  "Can't we, he pleaded to the world, to himself, to the officials, to the Machine, "Can't we take it back, can't we make it alive again? Can't we start over?  Can't we..."? A Sound of Thunder, 1952. Ray Bradbury So many people trying to bring a butterfly back to life.  

This is the first known photograph of a human.  This is Paris in 1838.  There are two people visible, a man having his shoes polished and a bootblack who is more indistinct.  This photo is reversed to show the view as Daguerre would have seen it, as all daguerreotypes are backwards.   This is the Boulevard de Temple, and in 1838 was known as the Boulevard of Crime because of all the penny dreadful type theaters.  Much of it was destroyed when Baron Haussmann did his thing.  Some have thought the man was standing at a water pump but this apparently is a bootblack at work. Close examination shows other people.  Two women and a pram. Child and dog across the street. Childs face in window.  I got all this off of Mashable, written and curated by Amanda Uren and Chris Wild. http://mashable.com/2014/11/05/first-photograph-of-a-human/ Aujourde' hui.  I started wit...

Two days after Christmas, and I went crabbing in the bay.  I got bored with this like everything else in my life right now so I finished it just to say I did some damn thing creative today.  I also threw all the crabs back.

This superior drawing is known as the "Madonna of Stalingrad".  It was drawn by Lt. Kurt Reuber, a doctor and a protestant pastor.  It measures 3' by 4', and is charcoal on the back of a Soviet map.  It reads, running down the left side, Christmas at the siege, Fortress Stalingrad, Light, Love, Life.  It was flown out by his battalion commander (why was an officer leaving, his place was with his men) on what Wikipedia says is the last flight out but I dispute that.  Could be, though.  Reuber died in a work camp.  He drew another before his death.  The original is on display at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial church in Berlin. The Prisoner's Madonna.  Reuber. The Germans starved their POW's to death, by policy.  The Russians then starved their German prisoners to death, by policy.  Of the 91,000 6th Army prisoners, 6000 would return home a decade later. 'The Eastern Front was the armies of two mass murderer...

The Laguna Madre, I mean Little Bay.  The Laguna is on the other sided of the dark strip in the background. A dog. A boy. Un flambeaux. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah where needed! steve @_livingdog - Instagram