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      • I had a film professor who spent a lot of time explaining that Astaire and Kelly were just two different kinds of dancers, who were aiming for different effects on the audience.

        She did the same with Chaplin and Keaton.

        I had an English professor who did the same with Shakespeare and the rest of the world. Good courses.

  1. John Bardeen, one of the men who invented the transistor, was born May 23, 1908, in Madison, Wisconsin.

    Here in south-central Iowa, it’s a beautiful day, which has been the case all week. That’s a sentence that I can’t type truthfully very often.

  2. Oh, there’s nothing halfway
    About the Iowa way to treat you,
    When we treat you
    Which we may not do at all.
    There’s an Iowa kind of special
    Chip-on-the-shoulder attitude.
    We’ve never been without.
    That we recall.
    We can be cold
    As our falling thermometers in December
    If you ask about our weather in July.
    And we’re so by God stubborn
    We could stand touchin’ noses
    For a week at a time
    And never see eye-to-eye.
    But what the heck, you’re welcome,
    Join us at the picnic.
    You can eat your fill
    Of all the food you bring yourself.
    You really ought to give Iowa a try.
    Provided you are contrary,

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