The slow-pitch, gloveless game is synonymous with Chicago — up there in the cultural pantheon with house music, Malört and arguments over which Harold’s is best.
16-inch softball is played in other provinces, sure, but most people have never even seen it done. You've gotta be there.
…people have been standing in line for 400 years to see his plays. They've been produced in every living language, presented in all parts of the world, rendered as operas and films, adapted to every age. How many other writers can make that claim?
And it's doubtful more tickets have been sold for any story of his than that of Romeo and Juliet. Here's an Oscar-winning filmed version directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968.
Rose Dunn, also known as Rose of Cimarron, fell in love with a wild west bandit named George “Bittercreek” Newcomb after being introduced to him by her brothers. In 1895, George was killed by the brothers after they became bounty hunters. Rose later married a politician.
According to Krutskikh, in 2020, the problems that all countries face in the information space are growing like a "snowball". Thus, the volume of illegal content, including terrorist content, distributed on the Internet is increasing, and the implementation of destructive actions of states in the information space is becoming the norm.
I'm so very old I remember Y2K (maybe you remember it too, but you're a lot younger than I am). and the massively overwhelming hysteria that preceded that spectacularly non event. And so some of the panic that pervades this current election season in the U.S. is provoking deja vu.
Nonetheless.
Here's a spritely rendition of the Bard's rowdy rom-com, Twelfth Night; watched it this evening (warning: contains kissing, but at least it comes near the end).
I'm thinking of conducting a personal Shakespeare festival in September and this seemed like an excellent place to start.
…talking about her landscaping misadventures:
"The trouble is, you plant stuff and then it grows."
This is beyond just plain normal weird, isn't it?
NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reported Thursday that it will provide a loop of pre-recorded crowd noise specific to each team's stadium that must be played over the PA system in empty stadiums -- and partially filled stadiums, at least to start the season -- at 70 decibels starting at kickoff.
So many questions.
Also:
Thousands lost power Saturday across the region as the demand caused by the heat strained the system.
Before we try to run everything on electricity we ought to try fixing a distribution system anything seems to break.
