Death Valley National Park is experiencing its first major superbloom in a decade as of March/April 2026, driven by record winter rainfall (1.7 – 2.5+ inches) that transformed the desert landscape with vibrant carpets of yellow, pink, and purple flowers.
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It is very hard to capture the past. Its essence. It’s emotional flavor. It is vital to somehow catalog a time that existed before our devices. This is what I endeavor to do. Even if AI is the reminder….
The Bad News Bears turns 50 today.
This movie zigged where most kid-sports films zag: cynical, un-Disneyfied, a gritty 1970s antidote to the usual underdog uplift. And Walter Matthau never once feels like he’s “acting with kids.”
"Auggie Busch traded me to the last-place Phillies over a $5000 salary dispute.
I was mentally committed to winning 25 games with the Cardinals and now I had to re-think my goals.
I decided to stay with the 25-win goal and won 27 of the Phillies' 59 victories".
Steve Carlton
Cardinals' owner, Auggie Busch had a temper tantrum because Steve Carlton wouldn't agree to the club's contract terms.
Ordered by Busch to trade Carlton, GM Bing Devine dealt him to the Phillies for another pitcher, Rick Wise, 1972.
"Steve Carlton had a way of elevating everyone’s game, even the year we were horrendous.
He was never indecisive on the mound.
Before the game, he’d go over the hitters and say, ‘This is how I’m going to pitch and this is where I want you to play him.’
He had a game plan of how to pitch to each hitter and he stuck to it.
And he wanted you in a certain spot, and if they didn’t hit it there, it was his responsibility.
That’s how he wanted it."
Larry Bowa.
"Steve Carlton was not your normal guy.
Communicating with him was not always easy.
On the mound, he would tune out all distractions.
Off the mound, he did the same.
If he considered you the distraction, he'd direct at you an icy stare.
Teammates considered him to be a recluse.
He refused to talk to reporters for long stretches at a time.
He pissed people off with his stand-offishness and his arrogance.
Steve Carlton was also the finest left handed pitcher of his generation."
"The Spirit of St. Louis".
Peter Golenbock.
Steve Carlton was 27-10 with a 1.97 ERA, for a last-place Philadelphia team.
🎶✨Vincent - Don McLean (1971)
Starry, starry night… Don McLean’s tribute to Vincent van Gogh paints his life, his suffering, and his misunderstood brilliance through the lens of The Starry Night — a swirling sky born from observation, memory, and emotion during his time in the asylum.
Barack Obama’s ICE chief received an award for 920,000 removals.
Donald Trump’s ICE chief was called a Nazi.
It’s the same person: Tom Homan.
In 2012, Obama deported 409,000 people.
In 2025, Trump deported 290,000 people.
The difference is mainstream media brainwashing.
We don’t have any footage of Beethoven or Mozart writing their masterpieces. We do, however, have Paul McCartney writing Get Back. And that’s even better.