Nightmares and Burgers

Today we went up to the University of Utah's Kingsbury Hall and saw a children's theater production of Nightmare in My Closet. My two grandsons enjoyed it. It was cute. Afterwards we frequented Hire's Big H in SLC on 4th South and 700 East. More enjoyable than the food was observing the family next to us. Three cute teen age daughters, a younger son and the mom and dad. The mother had this porcelain white skin, the father olive skin. What was fascinating was watching the back and forth in conversation between all of them. There were no cell phones out, nothing like that. I don't know about you but I enjoy watching people, looking at parents and their children, seeing the genetics passed on from one child to the other. Two of the girls had the same white skin of their mother and the middle girl had olive skin with her mother's face. I'll never see this family again but really enjoyed sitting next to them.

Hell's Angels Anyone?

Here is a collection of photos taken by a photographer for Life Magazine in 1965. They have never been published.

Stiff

I am not terribly squeamish when it comes to the human body. Unless of course it is my body with blood coming out of it or suffering some kind of pain. We all have an understanding that eventually all living things on this planet eventually go through the unavoidable gate we call death.

I was introduced to this book Stiff by Mary Roach via a friend. It was published some years ago but is still a fresh examination of the many different ways a human being experiences life (can I say that?) after he or she dies.

It talks of medical research, education, forensics, death facts and fables, ancient practices with the dead, new ways of handling the deceased and all at times in an amusing and entertaining way. Would you like to be fertilizer for and apple tree. This books explains the easiest and best way to do that. I recommend this book and give it at least 3 out of 4 stars.

Odds and Ends

Via Instapundit. 1937 advice on wives and how they should get ready for bed is visibly displayed here. It is pretty interesting.

Along those lines there is this. "Why does a woman always want to change a man?"--Rooster Cogburn.

Update: Vox Day throws this out too. Maybe the eternal ethos and pathos of man and woman will always exist, one way or another.

Critical Race Theory

I watched a clip of Joel Pollak being interviewed on CNN by Soledad O'Brien. They discussed a clip released by Breitbart.com with Barack Obama as a law student talking about Derrick Bell. It relates to something that I, frankly, had never heard of--critical race theory. This gives a pretty good synopsis for the lay person.