Weather: Getting almost hot for this place -- high humidity makes it feel worse. The wind damn near blew away the Summer Theatre last weekend at the college. Today it's clouding over -- virga dangling everywhere, but no rain hitting the ground -- makes sense, they'd be squalls then, wouldn't they?

Wildlife: Eagles in the morning, the cries of Loons at daybreak, Greibes fishing all day, and various families of ducklings coming ashore to graze beneath the hanging feeder in our back yard.

Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need

Media Watch: Yeah, we're tuning into Jeopardy to watch that guy from Salt Lake City shoot for a million bucks too.
Speaking of Salt Lake City -- John Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven gives an accurate, if slightly over-heated, history of the Mormon Church. It ain't a peaceful, mainstream religion folks. Believing that stuff can't help but play tricks with your mind!
I finished reading David Bodanis' History of E=MC^2
Author's website: David Bodanis : the official site
Here's a blogger who's read it (I think he's Dutch): alextreme's weblog
We're culling our collection of Bollywood flicks -- the grossly violent or uncaptioned stuff's gotta go! We'd never watch it anyway. However there are a few crime and war movies we're keeping, because they're well-made.
Speaking of crime movies: Little Caesar was on TCM. It made Edward G. Robinson a star in 1931. (Al Capone was still operating at the time.)
Mickey Spillane was PLAYING Mike Hammer in The Girl Hunters from 1963 on FMC. It wasn't bad, either -- a minor B&W Cinemascope film noir -- it wasn't great art by any means, but what do you expect from Mickey Spillane?