Born on this day – Dennis McDougal:

Dennis McDougal

Writer

November 25, 1947 – March 22, 2025

Credits:

Books:

Angel of Darkness (1991); Blood Cold (2002); Citizen Wynn: A Sin City Saga of Power, Lust, and Blind Ambition (2024); Fatal Subtraction: How Hollywood Really Does Business (1992); Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times (2008); In the Best of Families (1994); Mother's Day (1998); Operation White Rabbit (2020); Privileged Son (2001); The Candlestickmaker (2011); The Last Mogul (1998); The Yosemite Murders (2000).

Movies and television:

House of Mystery (2020); Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times (2009); Moguls, Millionaires & Movie Stars (2008); Ronald Reagan, un président sur mesure (2017); SCV in the Movies (2014); Sidney Korshak, la face cachée d'Hollywood (2014); The Movies That Made Us (2021); The Playboy Murders (2024); Universal, l'histoire secrète d'un studio (2004); Vanity Fair Confidential (2018); Voices of True Crime Podcast (2020).

Born on this day – Marcia Resnick:

Marcia Resnick

Photographer

Writer

Artist

Actress

November 21, 1950 – June 18, 2025

Credits:

Books:
 

Landscape-Loftscape (1986); Punks, Poets, and Provocateurs: New York City Bad Boys, 1977-1982 (2015); Re-visions (1978); Tahitian eve (1975).

Movies and television:

Chess (2016); G Man (1978); Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock & Roll Stories) (2023); Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos (2024); Looking for Johnny (2014); Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over (2019); Marcia Resnick's Bad Boys (1985); Marcia Resnick's New York City: Photos from 1977 to 1982 (2016); Seduction of Patrick (1979); Story of a Junkie (1985); The Offenders (1980); The Trap Door (1980).

Born on this day – Eileen Bennett:

 

Eileen Bennett

Actress

July 8, 1919 – March 9, 2025

Credits:

Adventure in Blackmail (1942); Back-Room Boy (1942); Cæsar's Friend (1939); Clouds Over Europe (1939); Design for Murder (1939); He Found a Star (1941); Much Too Shy (1942); The Amazing Mr. Forrest (1939); The Outsider (1939); Thursday's Child (1943).

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (or MMIW) Awareness Day (May 5)

May 5, 2025

Honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (or MMIW) Awareness Day and praying for an end to this crisis and peace for those impacted by its devastation.

#MissingAndMurderedIndigenousPersons #MissingAndMurderedIndigenousWomen #MMIW

Dogwood Blossoms Poem by George Marion McClellan.

Dogwood Blossoms

Poem by George Marion McClellan.
 
To dreamy languors and the violet mist
Of early Spring, the deep sequestered vale
Gives first her paling-blue Miamimist,
Where blithely pours the cuckoo’s annual tale
Of Summer promises and tender green,
Of a new life and beauty yet unseen.
The forest trees have yet a sighing mouth,
Where dying winds of March their branches swing,
While upward from the dreamy, sunny South,
A hand invisible leads on the Spring.
His rounds from bloom to bloom the bee begins
With flying song, and cowslip wine he sups,
Where to the warm and passing southern winds,
Azaleas gently swing their yellow cups.
Soon everywhere, with glory through and through,
The fields will spread with every brilliant hue.
But high o’er all the early floral train,
Where softness all the arching sky resumes,
The dogwood dancing to the winds’ refrain,
In stainless glory spreads its snowy blooms.
 

Recommended reading:
Poems by George Marion McClellan.
Video by Jack Kost.
2025.
 
Dogwood Blossom photographs by Jack Kost.
Sound effect credit:
Forest wind and birds
by freesound_community
from Pixabay.

Dogwood Blossoms Poem by George Marion McClellan.

 

Dogwood Blossoms

Poem by George Marion McClellan.

To dreamy languors and the violet mist

Of early Spring, the deep sequestered vale
Gives first her paling-blue Miamimist,

Where blithely pours the cuckoo’s annual tale
Of Summer promises and tender green,

Of a new life and beauty yet unseen.
The forest trees have yet a sighing mouth,

Where dying winds of March their branches swing,
While upward from the dreamy, sunny South,

A hand invisible leads on the Spring.
His rounds from bloom to bloom the bee begins

With flying song, and cowslip wine he sups,
Where to the warm and passing southern winds,

Azaleas gently swing their yellow cups.
Soon everywhere, with glory through and through,

The fields will spread with every brilliant hue.
But high o’er all the early floral train,

Where softness all the arching sky resumes,
The dogwood dancing to the winds’ refrain,

In stainless glory spreads its snowy blooms.

Recommended reading:

Poems by George Marion McClellan.


Video by Jack Kost.

2025.


Dogwood Blossom photographs by Jack Kost.

Sound effect credit:
Forest wind and birds

by freesound_community

from Pixabay.

The Last Word of a Bluebird, poem by Robert Frost:

 

The Last Word of a Bluebird

Poem by Robert Frost.
 
As I went out a Crow
In a low voice said, “Oh,
I was looking for you.
How do you do?
I just came to tell you
To tell Lesley (will you?)
That her little Bluebird
Wanted me to bring word
That the north wind last night
That made the stars bright
And made ice on the trough
Almost made him cough
His tail feathers off.
He just had to fly!
But he sent her Good-by,
And said to be good,
And wear her red hood,
And look for skunk tracks
In the snow with an ax –
And do everything!
And perhaps in the spring
He would come back and sing.”
 

Recommended reading:
 

Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays

 
Video by Jack Kost
2025
 
Music credit:
 
Cold October – Soft Piano Music
by Clavier-Music
From Pixabay
 
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