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Writings in the Sand

by Ned

Rated: 13+ · Book · Entertainment · #2199980

Thoughts destined to be washed away by the tides of life.

I've been studying my cover photo for a while now, and it seems to me that it is more than just a photo of what is there that can be seen, more than just three white rocks stacked on a beach. It contains an important question about the future, about what happens long after the photographer has gone. What will happen to our pile of stones when the tide comes in? Will it topple or has the architect built this structure at a safe distance?

I don't know what will happen to these words that I stack here on the sand. They may prove safely distant, or they may be swallowed up by a rush of self-doubt. They may be here for a season. They may lose their balance and be scattered by the shoreline, or be hidden away under shifting sands. Perhaps someday, the tides of life will reclaim them.

Or maybe that's just a bunch of poetic, romantic nonsense. After all, this is just a blog.

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Kåre เลียม Enga

about 14 hours ago
In response to "Into the Valley of Rudy"

I agree about the usefulness of youtube. That's how I watch my Thai programs. I also agree that Ed Sullivan was the king of variety shows... kinda like a box of chocolates.

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Cubby

May 26, 2025 at 8:43am
In response to "Where or When?"

Very interesting! And definitely thought-provoking.

Ned

May 26, 2025 at 5:51am
In response to "Where or When?"

Beholden

I can't shake the feeling that I have answered your comment before, so I am not going to do it again.

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Ned

May 26, 2025 at 5:50am
In response to "Where or When?"

Cubby

"timelines that never happened but did"

This is exactly how I view time. It explains how omniscience and free will can exist simultaneously. An omniscient God sees all time all at once, we see one timeline only. We make choices on which path to take, but before we even choose, God sees the end of all possible paths and so knows everything that will happen as it already has happened, but without interfering with our free will to choose.

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Beholden

May 25, 2025 at 4:20pm
In response to "Where or When?"

This gave me the strangest feeling. This has happened before in some strange way. But maybe that's just some weird brain fart or other. I'm far too old to have a déjà vu experience now, aren't I?

Cubby

May 25, 2025 at 8:32am
In response to "Where or When?"

I recently finished listening to the science-fiction thriller audiobook, Recursion by Blake Crouch. I didn't love it or hate it, but it was interesting and somewhat thought provoking.

It explores the idea that déjà vu is actually a remnant memory from a previous timeline, timelines that never happened but did. Confusing? Yes. I'm not explaining it well. The book is mostly about a chair that Helena, a neuroscientist, created that will take one back in time to relive moments or try changing them (her mother had Alzheimer's, which inspired her help others with this disease to retrieve their memories).

‘False Memory Syndrome' is also mentioned, where one has memories that are not true...but are they? Had someone gone back in time and caused new memories that never actually happened in the first timeline?

Yep, like I said...thought provoking, but not really my kind of book.

...though I have experience déjà vu...

Beholden

May 24, 2025 at 12:30pm
In response to "Into the Valley of Rudy"

Now I have to ask myself the question of whether I care enough about hearing someone sing through a megaphone enough to investigate the threads you mention. I really wanted you to do the work.

Ned

May 24, 2025 at 7:43am
In response to "Into the Valley of Rudy"

Amethyst Angel 💐

Well, he's dead now so hes' unlikely to bother her much. Sullivan had no talent, he wasn't good-looking, he was like a stiff bobblehead - but he could get together a variety show like no one else. Where else could you see an opera singer, a magician, an acrobat, Senor Wences and The Rolling Stones all in one television show?

Beholden

There are probably audio versions of those performances but no shorter videos. I think you would have to watch some old movies from the 30s and I know you would see some singer with a megaphone. Maybe a Busby Berkeley movie or perhaps one of those Ziefeld Follies movies?

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Beholden

May 23, 2025 at 9:50am
In response to "Into the Valley of Rudy"

Interesting. I was so hoping you'd found a video of him singing through a megaphone. Well, I suppose two seconds of it will have to do.

Amethyst Angel 💐

May 23, 2025 at 8:13am
In response to "Into the Valley of Rudy"

Cool! My mom can't stand Ed Sullivan

May 23, 2025 at 6:55am

#1089855

Into the Valley of Rudy

The older I get, the stranger and more convoluted are the paths my brain takes from subject A to subject B. The years add more and more trivia, more and more experiences, and every cultural reference can send my mind down a twisting path from which my original thought never returns.

That’s my way of explaining how I got to this video.

The Man was singing Winchester Cathedral which made me sing along because it’s quite catchy, you know? And of course, it was incumbent upon me to pretend I had a megaphone by forming one with my hands and altering the sound of my voice. I thought how funny it was that the style was once to sing into a megaphone. Why that must have been the 1920s. They were certainly the bees knees back then.

Rudy Vallee made the whole megaphone thing popular. Odd to think of someone named “Rudolph” being a pop culture megastar. So, I had to find out when he died because the only movie I remembered Rudy Vallee being in was “The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer” (great movie btw) which was well before I was born. Google told me that he wasn’t named Rudolph at all, but Hubert. Hubert Prior Vallee. Suddenly, Rudy seemed a more reasonable alternative as a stage name.

So, YouTube. YouTube for everything. YouTube for how to assemble that furniture from Walmart. YouTube for finding obscure performances from long-dead entertainers. So, YouTube for Rudy Vallee and of course, we get the great Ed Sullivan, showman extraordinaire!

I know you don’t care but here’s Rudy Vallee.

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