Laurel & Hardy - Bonnie Scotland

This my favorite Laurel & Hardy scene. The tune is "Wi' a Hundred Pipers." I hope you enjoy it.

"Heads we win, tails you lose!"

Daily-Jeff.com - Cougar caught on camera near Salt Fork

If you go out in the woods today
You're sure of a big surprise.
If you go out in the woods today
You'd better go in disguise.

If you go out in the woods today,
You'd better not go alone.
It's lovely out in the woods today,
But safer to stay at home.




Daily-Jeff.com - Cougar caught on camera near Salt Fork

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Cartoons from the Issue of October 19th, 2009: newyorker.com

18 mostly funny cartoons from the current New Yorker Magazine

Cartoons from the Issue of October 19th, 2009: newyorker.com

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The (almost) always clever Maureen Dowd on Obama's Nobel Award

An imagined conversation between Bill Clinton and Bush 43 upon hearing Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. An excerpt:

CLINTON: Talk about a fairy tale. This ... is ... just ... wrong! It’s killing me, man. I feel like my head’s explodin’. First I had the vast right-wing conspiracy, and now I have the vast left-wing conspiracy.

W.: I hear ya, 42. As if his head wasn’t big enough. This cat is all cage, no bird. He doesn’t have a clue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/opinion/11dowd.html

Some Favorite Travel Photos

I'm just starting this blog today, and to provide some content I've posted some of my favorite photos from my travels over the past three years.

Church on Spilled Blood - St. Petersburg

Church on Spilled Blood - St. Petersburg, originally uploaded by tseverns.

Because it was built on the spot where Tsar Alexander II was assassinated in 1881, this church is popularly known as the Church on Spilled Blood. (It's also called the Church of the Resurrection, Church of the Savior on the Blood, Resurrection of Christ, Assumption, and Church of the Redeemer. During the Second World War, it was used as a warehouse for vegetables, leading to the sardonic name of Savior on Potatoes. It suffered significant damage during the Siege of Leningrad. After the war, it was used as a warehouse for a nearby opera theatre.

On the Li River

Li River 2, originally uploaded by tseverns.

The Li River or Li Jiang (Chinese: 漓江, pinyin: Lí Jiāng) is a river in Guangxi Province, China. (Also see the Li River disambiguation page.) The Li River originates in the Mao'er Mountains in Xing'an county and flows through Guilin, Yangshuo and Pingle, down into the Xi Jiang, the western tributary of the Pearl River in Wuzhou, its course of 437 kilometers is flanked by green hills. Cormorant fishing is often associated with the Lijiang. Its unusual karst topography hillsides have often been compared to those at Halong Bay, Vietnam.

Caernarfon Castle, Wales

Caernarfon Castle, Wales, originally uploaded by tseverns.

Caernarfon Castle (Welsh: Castell Caernarfon) was constructed at Caernarfon in Gwynedd, north-west Wales, by King Edward I of England, following his conquest of Gwynedd in 1283. Caernarfon Castle is part of the World Heritage site 'Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd'

Wupatki National Monument

Wupatki National Monument, originally uploaded by tseverns.

Less than 800 years ago, Wupatki Pueblo was the largest pueblo around. It flourished for a time as a meeting place of different cultures. Yet this was one of the warmest and driest places on the Colorado Plateau, offering little obvious food, water, or comfort. How and why did people live here? The builders of Wupatki and nearby pueblos have moved on, but their legacy remains.

Brig o' Doon, Alloway, Ayreshire

Brig o' Doon, Alloway, Ayreshire, originally uploaded by tseverns.

The Brig o' Doon is a late medieval bridge used as the setting for the final verse of the Robert Burns's poem Tam o' Shanter. In this scene Tam is on horseback and is being chased by the Nannie the witch. He is just able to escape her by crossing the bridge (over a running stream) narrowly avoiding her attack as she is only able to grab the horses tail which comes away in her hands.