The Hall of Fire

Yes, I have Cornwell's book in my studio also.

Ripperologists quibble with it over many points, but I think that's because they want to keep the mystery alive. It's a hobby for them, like the JFK assassination is for others. The last thing they want is for the fun to be over.

You never need my permission for anything.

It is indeed a seascape by Whistler. People in general know little about Whistler because he takes a bit of study to understand. Such artists as Degas, Monet and Van Gogh have long overshadowed him. There is no movie about him. Most people don’t know much about him at all, except that he painted his...

Note: Some of this material has been cut and pasted from the "Daily Nature Pics" thread, in which Voronwë dared somebody to post pictures of oil refineries. Of course I had to do just that, and because people agreed that the pics had an odd beauty, we decided to begin a new thread about ho...

I see we’re already touching on the question of whether man-made structures are acceptable in these settings. I say yes, absolutely. I have never subscribed to the extreme view that man is an aberration, and that a human structure should automatically be called a rape of nature while anything create...