Bill's Big Blog-o-rama

2011 in review

dobee — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 01:07:44 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,200 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Another Poem by that Longfellow Guy

dobee — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:51:20 +0000

A Psalm of Life

Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world’s broad field of battle,

In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Act, – act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints on the sand of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solenm main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,

Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

I Designed a T-Shirt

dobee — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:39:17 +0000

A Route of Evanescence…

dobee — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:43:45 +0000

A Route of Evanescence
With a revolving Wheel
A Resonance of Emerald
A Rush of Cochineal
And every Blossom on the Bush
Adjusts its tumbled Head…
The mail from Tunis??
Or a look from [rhymes with Tunis].

JFK Biographer Nigel Hamilton is coming to the Nixon Library

dobee — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:02:44 +0000

It should be a very interesting evening.

Arizona Bound

dobee — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 01:24:55 +0000

Produced by Scott R. Dunlap

Watch “Arizona Bound” starring Buck Jones and Tim McCoy at the Internet Archive, or download an MP4 or AVI copy for yourself.
http://www.archive.org/details/ArizonaBound

Orlando ♥’s Rosalind

dobee — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:05:42 +0000

But it’s really complicated…

Sail on, O Ship of State…

dobee — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:18:24 +0000

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy keel,
What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
‘Tis of the wave and not the rock;
‘Tis but the flapping of the sail,
And not a rent made by the gale!
In spite of rock and tempest’s roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee.
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o’er our fears,
Are all with thee, -are all with thee!

–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I’m Getting Close…

dobee — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:00:59 +0000

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Why Can’t Love Ever Just Be Easy?

dobee — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:16:05 +0000