Dr. Demento, Madcap Radio DJ Who Launched Weird Al’s Career, Announces Retirement
End of an era. I can remember passing petitions around my high school to get Tom Lehrer songs into the weekly top ten, way back when we listened to him weekly on the actual radio.
“Lord of All I Survey”
Olympus E-M10 IV with M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/20, 1/200, ISO 800. Shot at the top of Spencer Butte.
“Give Me All Your Nuts”
Olympus E-M10 IV with M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/3.5, 1/4000, ISO 400. Shot at the top of Spencer Butte.
“Pareidolia”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 42mm, f/9, 1/60, ISO 1250. A tree. Also the silhouette of a gorilla. Seen on the French Pete Trail.
#mbjune Day 21: silhouette 📷
“Welcome!”
Olympus TG6 @ 5.4mm, f/3.2, 1/100s, ISO 800. Larkspur on Lowder Mountain.
Finished: Between Dawn and Sunrise, by James Branch Cabell 📚. By some lists this is the final volume of Cabell’s massive Biography of Manuel series. It’s a collection of excerpts from all the other books in the series, chosen and lightly introduced by John Macy. I enjoyed the speed-run, though I probably wouldn’t pick the same selections. Still, it’s a good starting point to see if Cabell’s main writings appeal to you.
Finished: Top Secret, by Ralph Ingersoll 📚. A novel (to me) look at the WWII Allied invasion of Europe from the perspective of a staff officer who served mainly with Gen. Bradley. Much more coverage of politics and bureaucracy than most war histories include. The author doesn’t think much of Eisenhower or Montgomery, and ends with a curious couple of chapters about how the Americans need to keep peace between the Brits and Russians moving forward.
- Judge rejects ‘Duffy Directive’ tying DOT grants to immigration cooperation
- Appeals court allows Trump to keep National Guard deployed, for now
The law giveth, and the law taketh away. I just wish it wasn’t giving us a military dictatorship taking over the country.
Finished: Puppetmaster: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, by Richard Hack 📚. A straightforward history of a man who believed in authoritarian rule and ignoring the law to preserve democracy. There’s a straight line connection from him through Roy Cohn to Donald Trump, too.
“Cafeteria”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 25mm, f/5.6, 1/60, ISO 1600. A spot on the French Pete trail where a squirrel spent time gathering pine nuts.
#mbjune Day 20: gather 📷
“Pom-Pom”
Olympus TG6 @ 18mm, f/6.3, 1/125s, ISO 800. Bluehead Gilia on Lowder Mountain.
“The Missing Dwarf”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 22mm, f/5.6, 1/60s, ISO 500. Along the Quaking Aspen Trail.
“Twinsies”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/8, 1/320, ISO 640. Twinflower along Elk Creek Trail.
#mbjune Day 19: equal 📷
“Yellow”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/5, 1/320s, ISO 160. Glacier Lily in a meadow near the top of Lowder Mountain.
“Split View”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 35mm, f/6.3, 1/100s, ISO 500. Sign at the intersection with Lowder Mountain trail.
“Delicate”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 42mm, f/5.6, 1/50s, ISO 1600. One of the many flower spikes of Coralroot Orchid along the Lowder Mountain Trail.
“Gnarled”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42mm kit lens @ 30mm, f/5, 1/1000s, ISO 250. Shot at the shore of Waldo Lake.
#mbjune Day 18: texture 📷
“Antics”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/5.6, 1/500, ISO 500. At Salt Creek Falls.
“Not a Pine Cone”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/6.3, 1/800s, ISO 6400. This is actually a clump of mushroom caps along the Elk Creek Trail.
“Life is a Struggle”
Olympus E-M10 IV with 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/2.8, 1/3200s, ISO 320. Along the Elk Creek Trail.
