Wildlife: Migrating ducks -- mostly Mallards, but there's far fewer males than I've ever seen before. That Bald Eagle is still soaring over Middle Foy's Lake.

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Weather: Still nice -- sunny, but not hot, with pleasant temperatures at night. This full-moon cycle has been spectacular too. We smelled smoke just after dark last night, but I suspect it might have been somebody's ill-advised campfire at the west end of the lake.

Media Watch: ANOTHER book about J.R.R. Tolkien -- Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship by Colin Duriez. This one's about his long friendship with C.S. Lewis and "The Inklings," their small literary circle. I have read better books, but it's short, and tells a little more about Lewis' move to Cambridge than others.
David Byrne's movie True Stories on TRIO Network last night. It introduced me to the awesome talent of John Goodman almost twenty years ago, even though he'd done some other films at the time. The late "Pops" Staples had a small, but important role, and Spaulding Gray (RIP) played a powerful businessman with a tenuous perception of reality. The great Tejano accordianist Flaco Jimenez played a song too.
Other highlights -- Wild Wild Life done a a lip-synch in a nightclub. Love For Sale as a step-removed cable TV ad among many TV ads. (These segments had the other Talking Heads - Jerry Harrison, Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth, in them.)
From Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth's website Tom Tom Club :

For three years Chris and Tina took time off from Tom Tom Club to concentrate their efforts on their Talking Heads career. In March 1984 they performed what would be the Talking Heads' last concerts, headlining summer festivals in Australia and New Zealand with The Eurythmics, Simple Minds, INXS and The Pretenders. While waiting for Talking Heads to regroup after the tour, Chris and Tina took an invitation from the B-52's to guest with them on a tour of New England in December 1984. In early 1985 they flew to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to perform with the B-52s for the first "Rock In Rio," a national ten-day televised concert series with a live audience of 360,000. Chris and Tina returned from Rio to join Jerry and David in New York to make Talking Heads' Little Creatures (1985) and True Stories (1985 -1986). True Stories the album was finished in spring of 1986 in Los Angeles where David was making his True Stories the film, which also featured videos and music of the band. Between projects in September of 1985 and unable to bear any longer the heatless nights of winter in their commercially-zoned Long Island City loft, Chris and Tina had moved with their small son, Robin, to a fully-heated barn of a home, Cock Island, in nearby Connecticut. Their second son, Egan, joined them there in August of 1986. Their loft had been Talking Headquarters since 1976, and it was there that Chris, Tina, Jerry and David once again sat down to write for Naked (1988) in the spring of 1987. In June the band flew to Paris to record what was to be their last studio album. When they returned to New York in September, Chris and Tina were asked to produce Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers' Conscious Party album, an offer that would be repeated for One Bright Day (Virgin) in early 1989.
A pretty good fan page -- Jerry Harrison Page
Another page from the same energetic fan, it's about the original quartet and the ubiquitous David Byrne -- Francey's TALKING-HEADS.NET
The best (and FUNKIEST) version of the Talking Heads included Adrian Bellew, Steve Scales, Nona Hendryx, original Bride of Funkenstein Lynn Mabry, and my friend Bernie Worrell: .: BernieWorrell.com :.