Mary Louise Eklund

Author: Mary Louise Eklund

  • Tuesday Thoughts – Sequels and Remakes

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    The required US legal disclaimer: All images are the property of their owners I reproduce them here under the Fair Use Doctrine of the copyright law for commentary and critique The required US legal disclaimer: All images are the property of their owners I reproduce them here under the Fair Use Doctrine of the copyright law for commentary and critique
    The required US legal disclaimer: All images are the property of their owners I reproduce them here under the Fair Use Doctrine of the copyright law for commentary and critique The required US legal disclaimer: All images are the property of their owners I reproduce them here under the Fair Use Doctrine of the copyright law for commentary and critique

    This summer is yet another summer of sequels and remakes. Now don’t get me wrong, I like many a fangirl look forward to the next episode in some movie sequels. But honestly most would have stood better if left as the awesome first movie they were. As for remakes, I’m at the age now where I’m seeing my childhood shows and movies redone casting the next generation, except Spiderman that gets rebooted what every other year? While some remakes are great fun others pale in comparison. So here’s my take on three from this summer.

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  • Monday Marginalia – Restructuring again

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    Christophorus Parisiensis, ‘Opera’ (in Italian), ‘Lucidarium artis transmutationis metallorum,’ etc. by Chemical Heritage Foundation who graciously shared it under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

    Just as you rearrange your furniture or move to a different house when life changes. This blog is changing a bit again to help me with keeping posts and daily themes. Monday is now Marginalia. (more…)

  • Freaky Fridays – Voynich Manuscript

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    In Freaky Fridays we’ve had a where did he go, a who is he, and an open secret of spies. Today we have a manuscript that leaves us what it is and why it is. It’s the Voynich Manuscript. A lovely manuscript with exotic drawings whose origin is unknown along with what language it is written in, if any. (more…)

  • Thursday Throwback – Charles A Temple

    C A Temple Judge Campaign card 1936
    Charles A Temple my other maternal great grandfather.

    This is my mother’s mother’s father – Charles A Temple. He was born without a middle name so he chose A because it made his initials CAT. Given my love of cats I like that but that’s about all I’ve heard of the man I like. He dominated people getting his way. He played favorites with his children my grandmother being his favorite. He liked to put on a show and leave his wife to do the work at the store. Nothing there endeared him to me beyond an apparent fondness for the word cat.

    He was a judge for part of a term. He was on a jury that determined a claim by a mining company against the Smokey National Park when the park was being established. He died of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

  • Wednesday Wildcard -Cozumel

    In Cozumel Mike chose the Jeep excursion.  It was one where you drove a Jeep about the island in a tour to see ruins, a national park, spent time on the beach, and have lunch.  He was keen on driving but there were four to a jeep.  I cautioned that maybe, just maybe, he couldn’t drive the whole thing.  But we were paired with two lovely ladies, Mary Lou from Michigan and her sister (please forgive men 6 months later I can’t find my notes and the name escapes me), neither had an interest in driving.  So Mike gleefully drove the whole day!  There we enjoyed the sites, had a great lunch, I loved playing in the ocean, and even got me a nice wool blanket. It has the lighthouse of the national park pictured here on the design. The blanket was a must for Wisconsin winters as Mike had taken back the one he’d given me in college.

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  • Tuesday Thoughts – Mapheads by Ken Jennings

    Mapheads by Ken Jennings
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    I think those of us who love books come with an affinity to maps too. (more…)

  • Monday Memories – A Bottle Tune

    Coke bottle player Jamaica 1988
    1988 In Jamaica with Mike and our bottle playing acquaintance.

    Welcome to the late 80s! (more…)

  • Freaky Friday – Number Stations

    Motorola Transistor Radio 1960s Allen flickr 22Jul16
    Motorola Transistor Radio 1960s by Allen on Flickr. Graciously shared under the Creative Common Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic license.

    This Friday I’d like to introduce you to something that isn’t a mystery but is by its very nature mysterious – Number Stations. Have you ever pondered what the world of international spying is like? Do you enjoy glimpses into that world when hearing spies of the past tell their Cold War tales? Would you like to witness a current spying even in operation RIGHT NOW without any danger or consequences? Wouldn’t that be freaky? Well you can with number stations!  Just get yourself a radio that picks up short-wave frequencies and you have a front row seat to current spy operations around the world.

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  • Thursday Throwback – Joseph Berry Bradford

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    Joseph Berry Bradford my other paternal great-grandfather

    Joseph Berry Bradford, my great-grandfather. A very small picture cropped from a group shot of a man who I know little about. First I’ll have to be honest, my great-grandmother was his mistress and later his wife. The group shot is of them with their children. (more…)

  • Wednesday Wildcard – Roatan

    Another stop on our cruise was Roatan, Honduras.  Though there the natives were quick to disassociate themselves from Honduras on the mainland.  They really thought of themselves as different and separate.  Here we did an eco-tree walk in the rain forest canopy.  It was high suspended bridges where we could see both ground and treetops.  The leader of the walk was a local who was very knowledgeable bout flora, not only the botany of it but traditional and medicinal uses too.  It was very interesting, informative, and lovely.

     

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