So, I don't want this to become my photo-blog but....DEER!

So, I don't want this to become my photo-blog but....DEER!

More pictures from my bike ride this morning.

More pictures from my bike ride this morning.

I got a little fascinated by the froth in a an outlet stream today.

I got a little fascinated by the froth in a an outlet stream today.

Lots of turtles on the trails today.

Lots of turtles on the trails today. Aside from this charming young woman laying her eggs right in the middle of the trail (which will probably be moved soon by the ranger who alerted me to it), there were also a bunch of canoes drawn up a little further down the road because they were organizing a mass release of Blanding's Turtles, an endangered species they're working to protect here.

Jason Riek “Let me tell you about this business,” Adam Vega, a thickly muscled, heavily tattooed Mister Softee man...

Jason Riek “Let me tell you about this business,” Adam Vega, a thickly muscled, heavily tattooed Mister Softee man who works the upper reaches of the Upper East Side and East Harlem, said on Wednesday. “Every truck has a bat inside.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/nyregion/a-king-of-ice-cream-a-renegade-upstart-and-a-simmering-turf-war.html

Hey!

Hey!

May is over and June has started and that means that if you're part of ad hoc book club, it's time to start talking.

So if you read Sex with Shakespeare this month -- start talking about it! I've left my basic thoughts here, but I'm happy to explore more.
http://bluegargantua.livejournal.com/631003.html

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I just came up with a better ending for Captain America: Civil War.


Spoilers ahoy!



OK, so in the movie, Zemo shows Stark the footage of Bucky killing his parents and goes ham on Bucky leading to the fight between Iron Man, Cap, and Bucky. The problem is that it's such a weak ploy. Stark knows that Bucky was basically a zombie assassin and not terribly responsible for any of his actions. Further, it's such an obvious ruse to get a rise out of Stark that he, a super-wealthy, super-genius, industrialist should see right through it. In fact, until Cap confirms it, Stark might believe it was faked -- after all, Zemo is good at faking stuff.

So with all of that, the motivation for that end fight seems incredibly weak.

So my better ending is thus: Stark is pissed as hell, but he's pissed at Zemo for going through all this effort to manipulate him. Sure, he can still be mad at Bucky and Cap, but he knows that's what he's being pushed to do and he resents that even more. So he starts burning through the blast shield to get at Zemo. Perhaps he even gets close to killing Zemo. Cap and Bucky have to step in to stop him and then we get that final fight. Hell, if they even just talk him down from killing Zemo that might be a better ending than a three-way fight.

My 2-cents anyway.