Author: Jon Herrera
Writer, Photographer, Blogger.
Does a blogger need ideas to blog?
I’ve been blogging in a not too serious fashion for a couple of years now. I’ve been writing off and on forever. I used to listen to talk radio and read the editorials in the local papers and these were often all I needed to get a good head of steam up. Somewhere along the line I just stopped caring about most of the stuff they talk about in these places. I mean, it’s like Howard Stern, once you’ve heard one show, by god, you’ve heard them all. I don’t care who killed Kennedy. Whining about the war isn’t going…
Annie Leibovitz and The Queen of England
BBC One is a television station in Great Brittan. The Brits love tabloids, I mean, they really love them. Even the normal newspapers have regular gossip sections and nudie photos. So anything that is scandalous is what sells. Throw in the Royal Family, and whamo!, big bucks. So BBC One was running a teaser that showed an unhappy Queen Elisabeth storming out of a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz. It seems Annie asked the Queen to remove her crown for a photo or two and the Queen was not amused. That was the tease.“The BBC would like to apologise to…
But my Fine Art Print Dinner Plate Hibiscus
Dinner Plate Hibiscus
Stem Cells More Good News
Slusho, Cloverleaf and Why do we care?
Slusho is an odd little page that reminds me of the scene in Firefly where the crazy girl goes crazy after seeing an odd ad on TV. The Slusho ad says you can’t drink just six and has one filled cup and eight empty cups on one side and three filled cups and five empty ones on the other. It has a vaguely anime feel to it and an upbeat little tune that likely has a certain number of notes that mean something. Having been a fan of Paul is Dead with the beatles, it’s easy to see all kinds…
Notes on a Scandal-Judi Dench Cate Blanchett
Ripped from the headlines story of a pretty blond schoolteacher having sex with a fifteen year old student. Sort of. The real story is about the old woman who lusts for a new friend, but we are never really sure what kind of a friend it is she lusting for. Judi Dench is the slightly mad, or totally mad, teacher who is near retirement age and doesn’t want to die alone. Cate Blanchett is the object of her desire, as well as the desire of the fifteen year old stud muffin. Nothing good comes from all this lusting.It is a…
Buildings-Great, Small and Favorite
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram had an interesting article about America’s favorite architecture, a website that lists all the usual suspects of buildings in our fair land. North Texas was left a bit wanting on the list, so the Telegram listed it’s own favorite buildings, the number one spot going to the Kimbell Art Museum designed by Louis Kahn. For those not familiar with the museum, let’s just say that Hitler would feel right at home in this shrine to concrete. So it is no surprise to me that Fort Worth’s famous bomb shelter didn’t make the list of favorite buildings.…
God Bless Tiny Tim
Never hit your grandma with a shovel,It makes a bad impression on her mind. -Tiny Tim It’s hard to image a stranger person than Tiny Tim hitting the big time, but he did. He became an icon of the sixties when he got married on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show and he was a one hit wonder with Tip Toe Through the Tulips. I found this LP when I was in high school and a huge fan of The Beatles. There was a story that Tiny Tim was mad at Capitol records for signing the Beatles and not signing him. He…
The perfect cup of coffee
Ok, maybe not perfect, but pretty close to perfect. I use a French Press, one of those cool little glass dodads with a mess plunger on the end. You start by grinding your own coffee, fresher is always better. About a tablespoon for a cup of coffee, or two if your a junkie like me. Give it a few small grinds in a kind of pulsing buzz-stop-buzz-stop until it is a nice coarse ground, about four to six seconds should do it.Run some hot water from the tap and rinse the insdie of the French Press. Put the fresh ground…