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Come men, can't any of you sing?
Posted by:jegan414 1370 days ago • Discuss • http://www.epicureanhealth.com
I soon got used to this singing, for the sailors never touched a rope without it. Sometimes, when no one happened to strike up, and the pulling, whatever it might be, did not seem to be getting forwa READ MORE ...
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You are what you eat, and maybe that's why I am a dick
Posted by:jegan414 1370 days ago • Discuss • http://www.epicureanhealth.com
The other day I received a comment on the post We are indeed what we eat, and what we eat remakes the world published on my blog Comics Legends and Lore. The comment was "Is that why you're a dick READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: The rhythm of the drummers in the street
Posted by:jegan414 1417 days ago • Discuss • http://www.time-less-image-blog.com
No matter their purpose or cause, once the music starts, marching feet will be pounding out the rhythm of the drummers in the street. READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: If you ban candy tossing at parades, what next?
Posted by:jegan414 1418 days ago • Discuss • http://www.time-less-image-blog.com
For many youngsters, the mad scramble for candy tossed from parade floats is as much of a holiday tradition as family cookouts and fireworks displays. READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: And The Band Played On
Posted by:jegan414 1420 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
The carriage roads which lace through the mountains and valleys of Acadia National Park are an engineering feet. Not, perhaps, in the same line as the pyramids of Egypt, but these roads had to be des READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: The community shows off its patriotism and good humor.
Posted by:jegan414 1420 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
In the United States, Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. On this date, the for READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: The lotus flower represents long life
Posted by:jegan414 1420 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
While cycling the Carriage Trails of Acadia National Park, Maine, I learned a few facts about the lotus flower, or water lily. The lotus flower is an ancient and deep symbol of our planet. READ MORE ...
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He was, in short.............CEREBUS THE AARDVARK
Posted by:jegan414 1427 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
Cerebus is, as some of you know, an Aardvark. Over the years, the author, Dave Sim, has let us follow this odd creature through his adventures as a barbarian, mercenary, drunk, Prime Minister and eve READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: A little more audacity will yield a lot more hope.
Posted by:jegan414 1427 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
The sounds and rumbles of the large tankers often catch me unawares. Momentarily, I may imagine that my little condo will be crushed under the weight of the behemoth. READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: A five toed dragon cost you your head.
Posted by:jegan414 1429 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
Dragons are creatures that are considered mythical, until you run into one. It is contrived that as the Chinese dragon walked South it began to lose toes; hence Chinese Dragons have 5 toes, Korean dr READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: This calls for hyperspeed!
Posted by:jegan414 1431 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
Space Ghost was a character created by Hanna-Barbera Productions and designed by Alex Toth. He started out as a superhero who, with his assistants Jan, Jace and Blip, fought villains in outer space. READ MORE ...
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Quest for the longest poetry meme: A chance to make history
Posted by:jegan414 1433 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
I need your help fellow bloggers! Lets create the longest poem ever known to the meme. READ MORE ...
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The Art Of Seeing
Posted by:jegan414 1434 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
My niece is traveling to Mexico next week. She will be visiting two towns, Cholula and Puebla, which I have always enjoyed for their photographic opportunities. She had asked me if I had any "reques READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: Widget, widget on the blog, who's the prettiest of them all?
Posted by:jegan414 1434 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
A widget is anything that can be embedded within a page of HTML, i.e. a web page. A widget adds some content to that page that is not static. Generally widgets are third party originated, though they READ MORE ...
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Know of any good Midsummer Eve parties?
Posted by:jegan414 1437 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
So it looks like there's still time to plan a Midsummer party. I'm not going to put all my eggs in the pagan basket. I'm looking for a used copy of the original Crockett's Victory Garden. But if READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: Help, my brain is shrinking, not my waist!
Posted by:jegan414 1440 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
How often do you let other people's nonsense or things you can't control change your mood? Do you let traffic delays, poor service in a restaurant, an insensitive comment, or an interruption of you READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: Looks cool out. Better layer with your Cocona.
Posted by:jegan414 1441 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
A few years ago every outdoor company started making anti-microbial long underwear that used nano fibers of heavy metal woven into their fabric to kill bacteria and eliminate funky synthetic underwea READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: Mary, how does your garden grow?
Posted by:jegan414 1442 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
Gardening has always been a matter of personal taste, and often the outstanding works of previous generations are torn down to make way for the style of the next. All are different, and all, like the READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: A painter must have pigments or shades more numerous than the existing names of the colours
Posted by:jegan414 1443 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
Ezra Pound’s In a Station of the Metro, first published in 1913 is considered one of the leading poems of the Imagist tradition. The poem, written in a Japanese haiku style, took a year and a half to READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: See No Evil
Posted by:jegan414 1445 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
A travel tip for those heading to Broadway this summer: If the person next to your $ 100.00 seat is squirming, spitting and farting, don't call the usher. They are actually performing a time honored READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was.
Posted by:jegan414 1447 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride a streak of lightning, sl READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: We are no longer that society
Posted by:jegan414 1449 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
During the month of June, Turner Classic Movies, TCM, looks at Hollywood's portrayal of Asians on the screen in a 35-film festival that includes early depictions starring Anna May Wong to contempora READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: Buy the highest-quality plunger you can.
Posted by:jegan414 1451 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
I happened upon an interesting blog post today. A home repair, a fairly common act of maintenance, almost resulted in domestic violence. Unfortunately we have become an angry society. With the stress READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: Dona Nobis Pacem
Posted by:jegan414 1454 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
What the people of the world want most, and have always wanted, are bread and peace. READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: Man Of Steel. Man in tights. Roaming the planet, looking for fights.
Posted by:jegan414 1454 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
If Dr. Seuss were introducing him on this occasion, he might say: "You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in." You'll can see him up in the sky, like a bird, like a plane. He's been a READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Posted by:jegan414 1456 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) was quoted as saying: "Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them". His works were, and still are, the first encouragement to a child to "think outsi READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: Over hill, over dale, but without the coconuts
Posted by:jegan414 1461 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
This Memorial Day weekend the "family" went to cycle the Berkshires of Massachusetts. We hit the spring green (not dusty) trails, full of confidence that we could master the hills. Unlike the soldi READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: If we are to find our readers, we must be gentle with them
Posted by:jegan414 1473 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
I worried about the tone of my post. Was I too preachy, too I angry, too sarcastic or cruel? In my early readings of the works of Dr. Johnson I was exposed to the Victorian writers' habit of "speak READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: The suffering and destruction of children in Darfur is an obscenity
Posted by:jegan414 1474 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
When we view photographs of war-torn bodies, piled-up corpses, or starving children, are we changed? READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: The Cape Cod Rail Trail follows a former railroad right-of-way for 22 miles
Posted by:jegan414 1475 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
Among the most scenic recreation trails in Massachusetts and a favorite with cyclists and day hikers, the Cape Cod Trail provides access to beaches, fresh water ponds, cranberry bogs and wild wetland READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: The religious art and celebration don’t stay inside the churches
Posted by:jegan414 1479 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
The thousand year old Romanesque Grossmunster Cathedral in Zurich was built on the site of an unusual miracle. In the year 286 Saint Felix, Saint Regula and Saint Exuperantius were decapitated for de READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: The earliest bicycles had pedals mounted directly on the front wheel.
Posted by:jegan414 1490 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
The earliest bicycles had pedals mounted directly on the front wheel. In order to increase speeds in the absence of any practical method of gearing, larger and larger wheels were built, culminating i READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: After the era of woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers came the first settlers
Posted by:jegan414 1491 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
After the era of woolly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and mastodons that roamed these once coastal plains 10,000 years ago, came the first settlers. They were members of more than 30 tribes of the W READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: Momma, they took away my coffee shop, and now they're digging up my back yard!"
Posted by:jegan414 1494 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is considered a "Coffee Lover's Paradise". Those visiting from the Pacific Northwest will still break out in a cold sweat until they get their bearings. Yes, there's a READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: A Tour For A Cure
Posted by:jegan414 1495 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
While not a qualifying ride for the Tour de France, the Tour De Cure is a noteworthy cycling event. All across the United States 30,000 riders become reacquainted with their bicycles. For some, it's READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: They sat on long, narrow paddle boats called dragon boats
Posted by:jegan414 1497 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
The Dragon Boat Festival, Duanwu Festival or Duen Ng Festival is a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar (June 19, 2007 and June 8, 2008). It i READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: See You In September
Posted by:jegan414 1498 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
The early morning sports forums were alive with comments about the results of the Boston Marathon. Robert Cheruiyot won his fourth Boston Marathon. Cheruiyot ran away from the pack to finish in a bli READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: There were as many different ways of producing a batik as there are Crayola crayons.
Posted by:jegan414 1501 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
Yesterday I discussed in length the origins of the term Batik. I have come to realize that there were as many different ways of producing a batik as there are artists working in the medium. Almost as READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: Ever wondered how they got those labels on the crayons?
Posted by:jegan414 1502 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
What does a brand spanking new box of Crayola crayons bring to mind? Ever wondered how they got those labels on the crayons? We didn't have much money in my family while growing up, but I still had READ MORE ...
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Comics Legends and Lore: We are indeed what we eat, and what we eat remakes the world.
Posted by:jegan414 1504 days ago • Discuss • http://time-less-image.typepad.com
Omnivore strictly means one who eats all things (Latin omni: all), but is used to describe those people or communities whose diet is not restricted to either animal or vegetable sources. READ MORE ...
