Riley's Farm Feed Summary June 20-29, 2009
The Timeless Standard
Why It's Difficult to Redeem the Standard in Media June 20, 2009
Your correspondent is not a big fan of the beach, (I'm more of a beatnik, lounge-loving Calvinist) but his kids dragged him down to Newport/Balboa last night for hot dogs and s'mores. The company and the conversation was good, and it was a cold night, so it didn't quite seem as much like the running of the bikini salmon as usual. I marveled to see Ruby's still out there at the end of the Balboa pier. Concept Eateries always seem to change every few years in trendy, high-rent spots and there was the same Ruby's I remember on college trips down to Balboa--clean, polished, stainless steel with homage to swing era Coca Cola advertising. Some of our extended circle of home-schoolers even did a little impromptu swing dancing next to the machine-age appointments, and I took it as proof of my contention that if you adapt some sort of classic standard, family pictures will save you from being memorialized in baggy, prison-inspired beach gear.
My friend, Mike Lewis and I discussed the goal of starting a kind of film academy and center..read more.
Making a Day of it on the Farm (Video)
June 22, 2009
A Restaurant Commercial (Video)
Based on a John Adams Story June 24, 2009
They Just Aren't Man Enough to Say It...
The Anti-Human Agenda of Cap & Trade June 25, 2009
I've written about this before, but the zero population, anti-human, "global village" band of policy freaks know they will never be able to sell what Earth Day baby-hater Paul Ehrlich once tried to pitch when he wrote:
"(We need) compulsory birth regulation... (through) the addition of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired family size."
Only a tenured half-wit, or an S.S. field marshal could write that sort of thing. In practice, the way to keep people from read more
Patriots and Parishioners
June 29, 2009
We had a full public house on Saturday with the Pasadena Patriots and our larger than normal read more.
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