Blake Kirk

If your plans for the evening don’t include getting together with your best friends to dance naked around a bonfire in the glowing moonlight, can you really say you’re putting your best efforts into celebrating the Summer Solstice.

This is the draw in the bluffs behind Omaha Beach, where, on June 6, 1944, soldiers from E Co, 16th Inf, and E Co. 116th Inf, forced the first breach in the German defenses on Omaha. This shot was taken from the US cemetery at Collville-Sur-Mer, which sits at the top of the draw.

Dear FB Messenger, Just because someone on my FB friends list sent me a message does not mean I need to (or will,) look at it as soon as it arrives. Multiple chimes at 10 min intervals are not needed.

No, the two on display outside the IWM are 15-inch guns

If you see this, QRT with a picture you feel pretty in. Not sure "pretty" is the best term, but here's a picture Carol and myself at an SCA event several years ago:

Somehow the National Weather Service warnings seem more threatening in Spanish than in English. A Severe Thunderstorm Watch translates to "Vigilencia de Tormena Severa."

Veal and ricotta meatballs: it’s what for supper.

Part of a healthy, balanced breakfast: cheese omelet smothered in lecso.

Why is my feed full of ads for hair-growth nostrums today? Dammit, I came by all of this decrepitude honestly, through fast living and being rode hard and put up wet. I *LIKE* not having to worry about caring for what hair I have left.

Question for the hive mind: which is the safer way to be an adrenaline junkie: BASE diving or storm chasing?

You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me:

Well, it is the predicted day of the Rapture. Again. And once again I am sorely disappointed that Certain People are evidently wholly incapable of comprehending Matthew 24:46 - “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only”