Convention report: Kennedys, Troggs, Jim Leach and Kermit the Frog

This blog is mostly going to ignore the Great Mile-High Non-News Event (as it will the Great Twin-Citian Non-News Event). There’s other folks that can take care of that. But listening to Teddy Kennedy talk like a Kennedy tonight reminded me of the 1967 novelty hit (it rose to No. 20 on the pop charts; [...]

Vacation over

I’m back in New York. And while I’d really prefer to be back in bed as well, I figure I ought to signal my return with this shot of the sun setting on the Sweetwater Mountains (they’re on the California-Nevada border north of Mono Lake, we were one range to the west). When Barbara’s in [...]