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Thursday, July 23, 2026
My Suspicions Confirmed!
The real life mermaids of Florida’s Weeki Wachee Springs
This show – which sees women perform athletic underwater tricks in a natural spring – has been running since 1947.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Mea Culpa
Today my email account was flooded with hundreds of comments and spam messages all at once, dating back more than two months! I went through the comments, deleted spam and read and posted each real message. I appreciate the time every one of you has taken to let me know that I am not screaming into a void.
Luciano Pavarotti, James Brown - It's A Man's Man's Man's World
Mr. Nag mentioned this video to me and I thought he was kidding. It's such an unlikely pairing that I had to share it.
Jack Kerouac and Panoramic Maps
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In the summer of 1956, the Beat writer Jack Kerouac ascended the North Cascade Mountains, climbing up through the glacial crests of Washington State to Desolation Peak, where he would assume a summer post as a fire lookout for the United States Forest Service.
“Lo, in the morning I woke up and it was beautiful blue sunshine sky and I went out in my alpine yard and there it was, everything Japhy said it was, hundreds of miles of pure snow-covered rocks and virgin lakes and high timber, and below, instead of the world, I saw a sea of marshmallow clouds flat as a roof and extending miles and miles in every direction, creaming all the valleys, what they call low-level clouds, on my 6600-foot pinnacle it was all far below me. . . . I made bacon and eggs, dug a garbage pit a hundred yards down the trail, hauled wood and identified landmarks with my panoramic and firefinder and named all the magic rocks and clefts, names Japhy had sung to me so often.”
See images of what Kerouac calls his “panoramic”: circular maps custom-made for the fire towers that once dotted the American wilderness like land-bound lighthouses and designed by Archie Norcross.
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
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