These things I like.

Never too many oysters.

“The safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”

C.S. Lewis

Flags from American history

The Sorrows of Gin.

A few old birds.

The Sorrows of Gin.

To this day, the Sports Ilustrated cover following USA’s win over the Soviets is the only cover to run without a headline.  No caption was needed.

The Sorrows of Gin.

Blue Nude III by Henri Matisse (1952)

The Sorrows of Gin.

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October 27, 1858: President Theodore Roosevelt Is Born

On this day in 1858, Teddy Roosevelt was born in New York City. 

Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were the most prominent members of one of the most important families in American history. Theodore and Franklin occupied the White House for nineteen of the first forty-five years of the twentieth century, years during which much of the modern world – and the modern state – was created. They shared an unfeigned love for people and politics and a willingness to defy class prejudices to help create a true democracy of equal opportunity.

Along with Eleanor, Theodore’s best-loved niece and Franklin’s wife, all three overcame personal obstacles as they independently – and collectively – transformed the model of a nation’s responsibility to its citizens and the wider world.

Take a look at a timeline of key events during Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt’s lifetimes using photos, quotes, and clips from Ken Burns’s The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.

Image: Official White House portrait by John Singer Sargent

Head of an Apostle, George Romney

Hooper

This.

Fridays are for Fish.

I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.   Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.   In time the curtain-edges will grow light.   Till then I see what’s really always there:   Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,   Making all thought impossible but how   And where and when I shall myself die.  

Aubade by Philip Larkin  

William F. Buckley

Amen, Mr. Buckley.