A Honey of an Anklet

Bright red

David Gorsline — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:08:17 +0000

I’ve been intending to do a more thorough job of documenting the various bus stop signs around the area from the numerous jurisdictions and authorities. Perhaps the spark will come from today’s sighting of one of the snappy new signs for Metrobus, complete with its NextBus stop number. The next N6 is expected to arrive in four minutes.

Good on ya: 7

David Gorsline — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:20:05 +0000

My from time-to-time colleague Linda Ifert, technical director of the CenterStage theater in the Reston Community Center, is the cover story for the current issue of RA’s magazine.

Close enough

David Gorsline — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:02:23 +0000

When reality gives way to art: somewhat fanciful behavior is pictured in a splendid poster (ca. 1926) by Oscar Rabe Hanson promoting commuter rail service in Chicago, part of a long article by J. J. Sedelmaier. The ducklings following the adult Wood Duck would more likely be single file, and more closely bunched. More critically, the little ones would be following a hen, not a drake.

No Tang for the 600,000

David Gorsline — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:51:21 +0000

Martin Austermuhle pulls a screen capture from Stephen Colbert’s recent “analysis” of Newt Gingrich’s plans to enfranchise 13,000 Moon colonists, prospectively granting them statehood.

On deck: 9

David Gorsline — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:31:05 +0000

Well, I knew that Kent Minichiello’s Conservation Philosophy class would have a lot of reading, but I’m not sure that I planned for quite this much. This is the reading list, including my two book report books, but missing Santos’ prohibitively priced Managing Planet Earth (loaner copies will circulate) and various offprints.

My presentation on the Cooper is in two weeks. Too bad I don’t have a long commute to carve out reading time for me.

Warning! Warning!

David Gorsline — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:15:33 +0000

Dick Tufeld, voice of the Robot in TV’s Lost in Space (the only character who sounded remotely grounded in reality), has passed away.

(News via Leta.)

Not in the percents

David Gorsline — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:46:30 +0000

“But to-day, for instance, Mr. M’Choakumchild was explaining to us about Natural Prosperity.”

“National, I think it must have been,” observed Louisa.

“Yes, it was.—But isn’t it the same?” [Sissy] timidly asked.

“You had better say, National, as he said so,” returned Louisa, with her dry reserve.

“National Prosperity. And he said, Now, this schoolroom is a Nation. And in this nation, there are fifty millions of money. Isn’t this a prosperous nation? Girl number twenty, isn’t this a prosperous nation, and a’n't you in a thriving state?”

“What did you say?” asked Louisa.

“Miss Louisa, I said I didn’t know. I thought I couldn’t know whether it was a prosperous nation or not, and whether I was in a thriving state or not, unless I knew who had got the money, and whether any of it was mine. But that had nothing to do with it. It was not in the figures at all,” said Sissy, wiping her eyes.

“That was a great mistake of yours,” observed Louisa.

—Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854), book 1, ch. IX

Upcoming: 30

David Gorsline — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:27:05 +0000

Artomatic 2012 will take place in the Transwestern Presidential Tower on Clark Street in Arlington, as announced by the Crystal City BID. The unjuried, free show celebrating local artists of all kinds runs 18 May to 24 June.

Hasn’t happened yet

David Gorsline — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:28:51 +0000

NAHUM: Euh—if I were bothered by vomit, I would not work in the theater.

—Slings and Arrows, season 1, ep. 5

And yet more changes

David Gorsline — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:25:07 +0000

The street name sign that I saw in Dupont Circle two summers ago doesn’t appear to match the new signs spotted by Mike DeBonis on Capitol Hill recently. I rather like these newest signs, judging, at least, from the posted shadowy cellphone image. It’s a pity that the street number modules bolted on at the bottom still look so chintzy.