... enjoy your Sunday morning.
ADDED: The post title is based on the title in the magazine on the table: "The Actual Hollister/A California town and its name." It's a nonfiction piece by Dave Eggers. You need a New Yorker subscription to read it. Excerpt:
The rise of the Hollister brand has been especially strange to me, because it was my great-great-grandfather T. S. Hawkins who helped found the town of Hollister. Growing up, I was confronted daily by his white-bearded face, in an old photograph that hung in our living room in Illinois. A few feet away, his rifle, which he carried from Missouri to California, rested over our mantel.Love the double "L" in "travelled."
The real story of Hollister begins in Marion County, Missouri, twenty miles from Mark Twain’s home town of Hannibal, in 1836. This is when T. S. Hawkins was born, the eldest of nine children, his parents farmers, their people having travelled from Ireland and England and Scotland to the early Virginia settlements.
The Hawkins family lived in two adjoining log cabins with one roof covering both. The boys of the family slept in the attic, near the clapboard roof, and listened to the tapping of the rain in the summer. “The boards made a good roof to turn off the rain,” Hawkins wrote in his autobiography, “Some Recollections of a Busy Life,” self-published in 1913....
Is it possible to get "Some Recollections of a Busy Life"? Maybe!
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That photo screams: White Privilege!
I bought that book by Zinsser, On Writing Well, after reading the discussion about it here. I have to say, I was not impressed. His examples of good writing often did not follow his own precepts. All his examples of good writing came from a certain ideological slant or writers who are known for their ideological slants. All examples of bad writing came from the opposite ideological slant. Did I imagine that?
I hope Jordan Spieth wins the British Open. Only one player has won the first three of golf's majors in the same year.
67,000 fans at Lambeau honoring Favre. Impressive.
The Hollister Ranch is an exclusive and privately held parcel of land north of Los Angeles that holds some of the best surf spots in America - Drakes, Little Drakes, San Augustine, Rights and Lefts, Governments, Cojo and other spots. You can walk in below the high tide line or boat in and anchor but the land itself is parceled out exclusively for wealthy people - many of them surfers who take a very dim view of the hoi poloi showing up to surf "their waves". The surfing exclusiveness of the Hollister and adjacent Bixby "Ranches" paved the way for the exclusive Hollister line of clothing which is, on reality, anything but exclusive. The acts of surfing terrorism by locals to outsiders in legendary in the surfing world and media. But that terrorism has kept the waves and spots from being over run by the hordes of Los Angeles. Said terrorism is this permitted to exist with a wink and a nod. The waves there are lovely. I have surfed it twice in my 62 years.
From "The Actual Hollister":
Then, in the sad silence of the dormant building, there was a sound. A thumping. I followed it down the hallway to a door. A floor mat in front said “Eli’s Chop Shop,” alongside a tricolored barber pole. Voices could be heard amid the hip-hop, and for a second I was so happy to know that there was someone in this building that I thought about going inside. But instead I left.
I read that and thought "Racist." Then I read on and discovered the author went back. And somehow manages to convince himself that nothing suspicious was going on in that shop after all.
Favre, along with Walter Payton and Rice, is a great football player who transcended his position. No QB will ever have so many consecutive starts. He was extremely tough.
Addendum- pardon my typing and auto-correct. My phone is to damn small.
Time Magazine has an article on the recently "uncovered" deposition of Bill Cosby from the 2005 civil lawsuit brought by one of his victims. How was it uncovered you ask? Through aggressive investigative reporting? Nope. It was never under seal and the court reporter provided a copy to the NYT when asked. One wonders why none of the hundreds of media working on the case over the past months never thought of that before now.
As one wonders why the press never thought it worthwhile to pursue the Cosby story over the past ten years.
Alert: the Scots Irish are among us.
"the press never thought it worthwhile to pursue the Cosby story "
I'm sure this makes me a sexist but I think a lot of those women were pursuing careers and he seemed to be a way to get there.
His wife was an injured party but I'm not sure about a lot of those women. Has anybody ever read, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again ?
If you think Althouse is a meanie you should read Mark Twain's hilarious take-down of
James Fenimore Cooper.
Why did you love 'travelled'? It'so the standard spelling in English, as you probably know, but I can't see what's lovable [English: loveable] about it!
How many of the MSM Sunday shows covered the Planned Parenthood fetal organ sales expose?
If you guessed zero, you would be right. Yawn.
Monty Python 90 second film clip covers transgenderism 36 years ago. Absolutely hilarious. Then a sense of sadness for me.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/07/life_imitates_monty_python_.html
CBS led the Evening News last night with 4 minutes on l'affaire Cosby. Why?
Also yesterday, a Black minister and a bunch of politicians of pallor of an unnamed party demanded the removal of the Civil War cannon (reproductions, but there is a story behind these), plaques commemorating the defeat of the Confederate invasion of New Mexico and the high-water mark of the Confederacy in 1862, and the Confederate flag ("Stars and Bars": not the battle standard) displayed as one of the "Five Flags over New Mexico" (Spain, Mexico, U.S., C.S.A, and State of N.M.).
One wonders if these clowns wishes the Civil War never happened and that slavery was still legal in this country.
... wish....
(The way my brain is wired, I tend to add an s for something ongoing, rather than pay attention to the number of subjects.)
And also, sorry:
That should be "Five Flags over Albuquerque." There is no claim that the Confederates ever conquered New Mexico Territory.
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