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TGIF

Let’s Go Mets!!! Game 3 tomorrow; you gotta believe…

The passing of R.W. Apple of the NY Times – the news stunned me, because I had only recently read one of his articles on travel and food. His writing was great stuff to read and vivid. You could tell that he really enjoyed going places and eating good stuff. A nice article in Newsweek by Julia Reed, with her memories of her colleague “Johnny” Apple.

Bill Moyers on The Christian Conservatives and their relationship with the environmentalist movement – that maybe these aren’t contradictions. Nice move, Moyers!

Slate’s slide show on John Constable’s art – and how it may have influenced those abroad and Impressionism. I liked it.

And the little Mars rovers that could

And, last but not least: the passing of Buck O’Neil, the Negro League great whose legacy is in passing on his knowledge to us and the future.  Like others, my introduction to him was through Ken Burns’ Baseball documentary, where Buck O’Neil was truly something.  Cooperstown should have him there already.

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