Tourists are bunching up near the Rock

The only thing in the modern world we thought was free with the program was Microsoft Word

Last night after watching the moving but very unsatisfactory DUNKIRK I came down to work on inputting corrections to line numbers in CLAREL (a problem if you start with Walt's numbers or if you have trouble getting above 99) and found that my 40-some page file had been frozen and had to be activated if I was to be able to work on it. You have heard the expression to have someone over the barrel?
$99.99 later, with hand held and guided all the way by the disembodied "Michael," I was able to access the file. If I live another 10 years and they don't raise the rates for Office in the meantime . . . .
Having been so terrified, I slept half an hour later than I ever do . . . .

Today, a jaundiced seal

Looking around at noon--South, North, then East up the deep sand to the parking lot

More flyers, frequent ones--3 shots of a happy landing

Fourth of July crowds are coming

Impossible to get gas today and impossible to get checked out at a drug store or grocery store, I hear. I got gas last week and with fewer than 27,000 miles on my 2007 car I am able to escape, any of three possible ways.  That ability to escape is a California thing.

Sabrina's Photo---82 heading fast to 83

Sabrina took this using some kind of zoom in technique

The standing person did not want to be in the picture anyhow.

"Poor color Xeroxes," Sendak said

So many friends and relations are dead.

3 months of Being Pent up in Lath and Plaster on the Library of America HERMAN MELVILLE: COMPLETE POEMS

Now to stand at my lectern on an 8' leaf and check book, canto, and line numbers for several hundred notes on CLAREL, and do other checking.

Well, it looks as if I survived and in a few weeks may get back to pleasure reading. I want to go through all the Shakespeare plays again as I did a few years ago, but now I have to get the power to watch the English range of DVD, for there is a well-reviewed Measure for Measure at the new Globe. The director of the only DVD previously available did not understand the play at all.

There is a lot to do on the Complete Poems volume, but I whiff freedom.

I want to work on ORNERY PEOPLE again. I just saw a day or two ago that the Revolutionary Lipe / Leib brothers are Rudisill cousins, with stories.

An intruder on my private beach

Part of the Rock

Frequent Flyers--9 photos of 9 different Birds

Frolickers at 9 a.m.

Surfers and Sandpiper

Farmer's stretch

Gorgeous day

Northward bound heron

gigantic Morro Rock at 1135 a.m. today

Morro Rock in all its 11 a.m. glory

From the usual standpoint.

Shaving heads of Spanish-speaking children in the tent city in the desert

I understand why Trump put all those non-English-speaking children in tent camps in the desert but I still don't understand why he shaved all their heads. I can't figure that out. Maybe I read some explanation and did not understand it.

Surfer-slicer, Menace to all Marine Life

Reckless, but not reckless enough.

Private Beach

Pelicans

Eric Greitens, Naval Seal--soon to be U S Senator from Missouri

Kevin Costner: "We've been about more, we can be about more

and right now we are acting really small." 19 June 2018

This reminds me of the first time I checked to see if we were kin after seeing that both of us were defying a leading aesthetic principle, Less is More. Notice that Kevin in 2018 is putting "more" in compassionate terms.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Genetics, of course[?]--Kevin Costner and Hershel Parker saying "More is More"

In RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY Autumn 1981 (printed late in 1983) I made a big argument that sometimes "More is More." The Chicago Tribune on 16 April 1989 printed an article in which Kevin Costner declared likewise that sometimes "More is More." On 1 May 1989 I received a clipping of this article from Brian Higgins, who remembered the RALS article and thought it an interesting coincidence. Calling Higgins on several matters, I mentioned that of course this advocacy for "More is More" was genetic, since my mother was Martha Costner. Brian had not known I was a Costner. "Ho ho ho," we laughed. Then I asked my last Costner uncle (Andrew Costner) if he knew anything about one of our Costners becoming an actor and he said, "Sure do, he's one of Uncle Mode's grandson Bill's sons." That is to say, my second cousin once removed.

Now, what do studies of families show about such similarity of attitudes in the descendants of two brothers? To be sure, these two brothers were closest in age and went off from Mississippi together into the wilds of the Oklahoma Territory panhandle and homesteaded there, so that their many children knew only one uncle. The Costner cousins there in Guymon knew no other relatives for ten years or so. How much of the "More is More" attitude, if any, could be genetic reinforced by family tradition?

My mother, one of the children born in Guymon, Oklahoma Territory, in her youth was known as "Bull Head Costner." That sort of thing, plainly, cannot be inherited or instilled.

I am only half joking here, because I want to test the limits of what's inherited and instilled when I write ORNERY PEOPLE, about the American ancestors I have found through the Internet, beginning at the end of 2002.

Kevin Costner speaks out

Kevin Costner on undocumented children being separated: 'I'm not recognizing America right now.... ...

www.kitv.com/.../kevin-costner-on-undocumented-children-being-separated-im-not-rec...

8 hours ago - 'We have to do better,' Costner said. 'We've been about more, we can be about more and right now we're acting really small.

Uncle Mode's great grandson makes all of us proud.

My 2nd Cousin Bill Costner would have been proud today.

Kevin Costner says, "This is a hard thing to say--I'm not recognizing America right now."

I have not watched the news since 8 pm on 8 November 2016, but everyone has to hear what is going on. A Hungarian Jewess I know well is more shaken by the El Paso area concentration camps than anything so far. I read Laura Bush this morning.

I am proud to be the son of Martha Costner today. Well, I am always proud, but today I am proud for her cousin's grandson.

Re-emergence of Eric Greitens, Naval Seal--Soon to be U. S. Senator from Missouri

Peaceful

Normal day near the Rock

From the north

The Re-Emergence of Eric Greitens--U.S. Senator to Be

We thought he was buried, politically, but now it seems that he will run for Senate. I predict he will win and be quite at home with the Republican majority.

HP and Sabrina 16 June 2018

The darker one is my cousin Mike the vet turned genealogist who diagnosed Scalini by Internet yesterday--and his friend John

A hasty blood test yesterday proved Mike right and Scalini has begun treatment already. Bless you, Cousin Mike.

Along the path almost to the parking lot--beach lupine months delayed by drought

From my starting point

Thongs celebrating Father's Day early

Really unpleasant article about Uncle Jim, James Johnston, hero of King's Mountain, in the NCpedia. Tone is, well, snotty.

This is what I just sent to the NCpedia.

Haydon Asbury is a trifle snarky about my uncle Jim, Colonel James Johnston. He was merely "alleged" to have fought at King's Mountain? My GGGG Grandfather Robert Knox (pension application S8803) says explicitly that he, Grandpa Knox, was not at King's Mountain because Johnston (he does not say his brother-in-law) had sent him off, probably back to camp for something--and if you were a little tardy you missed the hour-long battle. It is very clear in his phrasing that Colonel Johnston WAS at the battle of King's Mountain, and it was a sore point at the age of 90 that Robert Knox had missed out because of being sent off to do something or get something.
Asbury should have counted children a little longer. There were several, not 2, and among them Will was a very prominent man with even more prominent sons and grandsons.
You don't want to be snarky in the NCpedia.

A few flyers