Haikus: August 2014

HAIKUS: August 2014

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

These haikus were written as exercises in mindfulness—
an attempt to catch the fleeting moment in my daily walks,
while reading, listening to music, and pondering about life.
(Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.)
This web page best viewed with Times font size 14.

Friday, August 1, 2014, 1:00-3:10 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuela Ave);
Brian Percival directs "The Book Thief" (2013) with
Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Ben Schnetzer, Nico Liersch, Barbara Auer, Levin Liam,
Roger Allam; (YouTube: Trailer, Geoffrey, Sophie,
Nico, Ben, Emily, Author Zusak, Behind the Scenes,
Interview, Nélisse); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Book

Despite Nazi atrocities,
the love of books and
people transcends evil. Friday, August 1, 2014, 11:53-4:45 pm
(After seeing "Book Thief" film Rudy gave it a 10+)
Mountain View Senior Center: Born August 1—
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744); William Clark (1770);
Francis Scott Key (1779); Richard Henry Dana (1815); Herman Melville (1819); Jerry Garcia (1942); Claudius (10 BC); Robert Todd Lincoln (1843);
Torii Hunter (1975); Events on August 1 (1936);

100,000 saluted Hitler
on his entrance at
opening of Berlin Olympics.

Saturday, August 2, 2014, 12:30-3;45 pm
Los Altos Library: Born August 2:
Pierre-Charles L'Enfant (1754); Elisha Gray (1835);
Ernest Dowson (1867); John French Sloan (1871);
Myrna Loy (1905); James Baldwin (1924);
Wes Craven (1939); Tim Wakefield (1996);
Events on August 2 (1923);

Warren Harding dies suddenly
of stroke in San Francisco;
Calvin Coolidge is President. Saturday, August 2, 2014, 4:45-7:00 pm
Cupertino: Bluelight Cinema (21275 Stevens Creek Blvd) Gareth Edwards directs "Godzilla" (2014) with
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn, Richard T. Jones; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Military can't subdue
MUTO monsters that were
killed by Godzilla's fiery breath.

Sunday, August 3, 2014, 2:23-6:30 pm
Mountain View: Born August 3:
Joseph Paxton (1803); Elisha Otis (1811);
Stanley Baldwin (1867); Rupert Brooke (1887);
Ernie Pyle (1900); Maggie Kuhn (1905); P. D. James (1920); Tony Bennett (1926), Martin Sheen (1940), Martha Stewart (1941); Tom Brady (1977);
Events on August 3 (1958)—

Nuclear-powered submarine
Nautilus became first vessel
to cross North Pole underwater. Sunday, August 3, 2014, 7:30-10:30 pm
Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: George Cukor directs
"My Fair Lady" (1964) with Audrey Hepburn
(Marni Nixon's singing voice), Rex Harrison,
Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Jeremy Brett, Theodore Bikel, Mona Washbourne, Isobel Elsom, Queenie Leonard; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Electrical spark in her eyes—
Audrey singing with ecstasy
"I Could Have Danced All Night".

Monday, August 4, 2014, 12:07-6:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born August 4:
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792); Russell Sage (1816);
Walter Pater (1839); Louis Armstrong (1901);
Osbert Lancaster (1908); Glenn Cunningham (1909);
William Schuman (1910); Raoul Wallenberg (1912),
Roger Clemens (1962), Barack Obama (1967);
Events on August 4 (1914)—

Britain declared war on
Germany while United States
proclaimed its neutrality. Monday, August 4, 2014, 7:00-9:30 pm
Stanford University: CEMEX Auditorium
Stanford Repertory Theater Festival; Orson Welles directs "Chimes at Midnight" aka Falstaff (1966)
with Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, Marina Vlady, Fernando Rey, Alan Webb, Walter Chiari, José Nieto;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Life ambition of Welles
was to play Falstaff and turned
the project into a successful film.

Tuesday, August 5, 2014, 12:08-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born August 5:
Guy de Maupassant (1850); Conrad Aiken (1889);
Erich Kleiber (1890); John Huston (1906);
Wassily Leontief (1906); Robert Taylor (1911);
Neil Armstrong (1930); Wendell Berry (1934),
Loni Anderson (1945), Patrick Ewing (1962);
Dates: August 5; Events on August 5 (1963)—

U.S., Britain, & Soviet Union
signed treaty banning nuclear tests
in atmosphere, outer space, & underwater. Tuesday, August 5, 2014, 6:00-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Campus, Gym B
Donna Frankel teaches World Dance (DANC 5) &
Dance Conditioning (DANC 14)— 6 women, 5 men
in class; learned circle mixer: salsa, cha cha, waltz—
[YouTube: New York, NY (1); Pata Pata (1); Hong
Kong: Waves; Salsa Rueda (1); Cha Cha Rueda (1);
Waltz circle mixer (1); Doudlebska Polka (1)]

Donna went to Stockton Folk Dance
Camp and learned several salsa
rueda to teach us today.

Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 9:50-10:00 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Gordon Hunt plays oboe in
"Elevazione for Oboe, Cello and Strings" (1715)
by Domenico Zipoli, Listen, CD,
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); 10:11-10:39 am—
Claudio Abbado conducts Joseph Haydn,
Symphony #101 in G major "The Clock" (1787)
(Listen), CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

The Clock ticks off time,
but Zipoli's Ascension
lets us feel eternity. Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 12:33-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born August 6:
Alfred Tennyson (1809); Andrew Taylor Still (1828);
Alexander Fleming (1881); Louella Parsons (1881);
Lucille Ball (1911); Ronald Duncan (1914);
Richard Hofstadter (1916); Robert Mitchum (1917),
Andy Warhol (1928), M. Night Shyamalan (1962);
Events on August 6 (1945)—

U.S. drops atomic bomb
on Hiroshima, Japan,
killing 66,000 people.

Thursday, August 7, 2014, 11:55-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Wrote Poem:
"Robert Wise Honors Marni Nixon in The Sound of
Music" as "Time Magazine" called her "The Ghostess
with the Mostest" as Marni Nixon sang for the stars
in "The King and I" (1956), "West Side Story" (1961),
"My Fair Lady" (1964) & the high notes for Marilyn
in "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (1953)

Robert Wise casts Marni Nixon
as Sister Sophia in Sound of Music for
Sophia means "wisdom" embodied by Wise.
Thursday, August 7, 2014, 11:55-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born August 7:
John Heathcoat (1783); Mata Hari (1876);
Louis Leakey (1903); Ralph Bunche (1904);
Nicholas Ray (1911); Abebe Bikila (1932);
Garrison Keillor (1942); John Glover (1917),
David Duchovny (1960), Charlize Theron (1975),
Mike Trout (1991); Events on August 7 (1974)—

Philippe Petit walked a tightrope
strung between the twin towers
of New York's World Trade Center.

Friday, August 8, 2014, 2:20-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center— Born August 8:
Charles Bulfinch (1763); Charles Dana (1819);
Emiliano Zapata (1879); Marjorie Rawlings (1896);
Ernest Lawrence (1901); Arthur, J. Goldberg (1908);
Dustin Hoffman (1937); Connie Stevens (1938);
Keith Carradine (1949); Roger Federer (1991);
Events on August 8 (1974)—

President Richard Nixon resigns
after Watergate scandal
Gerald Ford to be President. Friday, August 8, 2014, 5:55-7:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Alfred L. Werker
directs "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (1939)
with Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce), Ida Lupino,
George Zucco, Alan Marshal, E. E. Clive,
Terry Kilburn; (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, full film); Sherlock Holmes;
2nd of 14 Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series)

Professor Moriarty diverts
Sherlock Holmes while he steals
crown jewels from Tower of London.

Friday, August 8, 2014, 7:30-8:00 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Spencer Gordon Bennet & Thomas Carr direct "Superman" (1948 Serial)
Chapter 1: "Superman Comes To Earth" Kirk Alyn (Superman), Nelson Leigh (Jor-El), Ed Cassidy (Eben Kent), Virginia Carroll (Martha Kent), Mason Alan Dinehart (Young Clark Kent), Noel Neill (Lois Lane), Tommy Bond (Jimmy Olsen); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Kirk Alyn played Superman
and Clark Kent in 1948 before
George Reeves & Christopher Reeve. Friday, August 8, 2014, 7:30-8:55 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: H. Bruce Humberstone directs "Charlie Chan at the Opera" (1936)
with Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke,
William Demarest, Guy Usher, Margaret Irving, Nedda Harrigan, Gregory Gaye, Frank Conroy, Tommy Bond; Music for onscreen opera Carnival
is by Oscar Levant (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(YouTube: full film, full film 2)

Considered best Warner Oland
Charlie Chan film due to
the co-acting of Boris Karloff.

Saturday, August 9, 2014, 4:59-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Stephen Addiss, "Haiku Garden:
Four Seasons In Poems And Prints" (1996) (bought
$16.95 for $2); Hashin winter haikus: "No heaven,
no earth— / the snow / keeps falling." (p. 12); Issa: "Stickily stickily / clinging to everything— / spring snow." (p. 20); Santoka: "Snow / falls on snow— / silence." (p. 94); Ian Freer, "Movie Makers: 50 Iconic Directors from Chaplin to the Coen Brothers" (2009) ($15 for $4); Must-see William Wyler films (p.63)—

Jezebel, Wuthering-Heights,
Mrs. Miniver, Best Years of Our Lives,
Roman Holiday, and Ben-Hur. Saturday, August 9, 2014, 4:59-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Born on August 9:
Izaak Walton (1593); John Dryden (1631);
William Morton (1819); Leonide Massine (1896);
Jean Piaget (1896); P. L. Travers (1899);
William A. Fowler (1911), Robert Aldrich (1918);
Bob Cousy (1928); Rod Laver (1938);
Sam Elliott (1944); Melanie Griffith (1957);
Deion Sanders (1967); Gillian Anderson (1968);
Events on August 9 (1945)—

U.S. drops atomic bomb
over Nagasaki, Japan, killing
39,000 people instantly.

Sunday, August 10, 2014, 3:45-5:55 pm
Los Altos Library— "OP-ED: Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain" (We watch an average of five hours of
television per day. For every hour of YouTube video
you watch, there are 5,999 hours of new video just
posted!) (By Daniel Levitin, NY Times, 8-10-2014)

We consume 174 newspapers'
worth of information daily,
five times more than 1986. Sunday, August 10, 2014, 3:45-5:55 pm
Los Altos Library— Born on August 10:
Jay Cooke (1821); Charles Keene (1823);
Aleksandr Glazunov (1865); Herbert Hoover (1874);
Douglas Stuart Moore (1893); Leo Fender (1909),
Rhonda Fleming (1923); Events August 10 (1962)—

Marvel Comics superhero
Spider-Man made his debut in
issue 15 of "Amazing Fantasy".

Sunday, August 10, 2014, 7:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: William Wyler
directs "Roman Holiday" (1953) starring
Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Eddie Albert,
Hartley Power, Harcourt Williams, Margaret Rawlings, Paolo Carlini, Claudio Ermelli,
Tullio Carminati, Paola Borboni; (YouTube:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Audrey Hepburn wins
Oscars; Eddie Albert
should have won too. Sunday, August 10, 2014, 9:40-11:20 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Rouben Mamoulian
directs "Queen Christina" (1933), with Greta Garbo,
John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone, C. Aubrey Smith, Reginald Owen, Elizabeth Young; Mamoulian;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 78 photos), (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Queen Christina; Fact & Film Fiction;
Herbert Stothart: Composer for "Queen Christina"

Garbo caressed the whole
room to engrave it in her memory
for it is here where she fell in love.

Monday, August 11, 2014, 2:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View Seni or Center— Born August 11:
Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778); James Bryan Herrick (1861); Hugh MacDiarmid (1892); Louise Bogan (1897); Lloyd Nolan (1902); Alex Haley (1921);
Hulk Hogan (1953), Viola Davis (1965);
Pablo Sandoval (1986); Events August 11 (1965)—

Deadly rioting and looting
broke out in black Watts
section of Los Angeles. Monday, August 11, 2014, 7:00-9:30 pm
Stanford University: CEMEX Auditorium
Stanford Theater Festival; Orson Welles directs
"The Trial" (1962)— Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider Akim Tamiroff, Elsa Martinelli, Suzanne Flon, Paola Mori, Arnoldo Foà; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Josef K is not a sheepish victim
but as complicit in his
own convoluted fate.

Tuesday, August 12, 2014, 6:00-9:45 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Campus, Gym B
Donna Frankel teaches World Dance (DANC 5) &
Dance Conditioning (DANC 14)— 6 women, 6 men
in class; learned country-western Cotton-Eye Joe &
other mixers— [YouTube: Pata Pata (1); Hong Kong:
Waves; Korobushka (1); Hawaiian Hukilau (1);
La Bastringue (1); Salsa Rueda (1); 'T Smidje (1);
Cross-Body Waltz mixer (1); Cha Cha Rueda (1);
Cotton-Eye Joe (1, 2); Road to the Isles (1);
Greek Syrtos (1); Hora Dragostei?; Believe (1)]

Donna taught Greek Syrtos,
Ukrainian Hora Dragostei,
and Scottish Road to the Isles. Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 1:30-3:30 pm
Mountain View: Help friend buy four gallons of Arrowhead spring water special @74¢/gallon;
Rudy takes me shopping at Sprouts Farmers Market
(630 San Antonio Road) (Red grapes @98¢, cluster tomatoes @98¢/lb, raw wheat germ $1.09/lb, French vanilla almond granola @$1.99/lb, green bell pepper 2 for $1, hulled raw sunflower seeds @$1.99/lb, raw mixed nuts @$5.99/lb); Milk Pail (2585 California St) (Blackberries $1.49/12 oz, green onions 49¢,
Coupon Special: four cantaloupes for 99¢)

Rudy met me at Sprouts
to buy fruits, seeds, and nuts,
and to Milk Pail for cantaloupes.

Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 4:49-8:40 pm
Mountain View Senior Center— Born August 13:
Lucy Stone (1818); Sir George Grove (1820);
Felix Adler (1851); Annie Oakley (1860);
George Luks (1867); Alfred Hitchcock (1899);
Salvador Luria (1912); Fidel Castro (1926);
Bobby Clarke (1949); Events on August 13 (1961)—

East Germany seals border
with West Berlin to block
more refugees escape. Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 4:49-8:40 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room:
Rare opah catch might be a world record
(Joe Ludlow's catch of a 181-pound opah has been
submitted to the IGFA for record consideration;
it exceeds the current record weight by 18 pounds.)
(By Pete Thomas, Yahoo! News, 8-13-2014)

After 30-minutes fight,
he caught giant 181 lbs
moonfish for world record.

Thursday, August 14, 2014, 2:30-9:30 pm
Palo Alto: Middlefield Lab— Born August 14:
Ernest Thayer (1863); John Galsworthy (1867);
Arthur J. Dempster (1886); Max Klein (1915);
Russell Baker (1925); David Crosby (1941);
Steve Martin (1945); Danielle Steel (1947);
Gary Larson (1950); Magic Johnson (1959);
Halle Berry (1949); Mila Kunis (1926);
Tim Tebow (1987); Events on August 14 (1945)—

Japan surrendered
unconditionally,
ending World War II. Thursday, August 14, 2014, 2:30-9:30 pm
Missed 1:59 pm Bus #35 to Mountain View after
picking up Daily Post, Mountain View Voice, and
Epoch Times; caught 2:07 pm Bus #35 to Palo Alto
Found Foothill Middlefield Computer Lab open—
Campus Supervisor Kristina Chang gave me ride home; Formatted 14 World Dances taught by Donna; Uploaded photos of Eagle Trail Hike (7-4-2014) &
Pamela Drive Palms (3-1-2014); Favorites—

"Seagull & Flaming Clouds",
"Majestic Palm Tree",
Loop Tree Pamela Drive.

Friday, August 15, 2014, 2:15-4:45 pm
Mountain View Seni or Center— Born August 15:
Napoleon (1769); Sir Walter Scott (1771);
Ethel Barrymore (1879); Edna Ferber (1887);
Louis de Broglie (1892); Bil Baird (1904);
Robert Bolt (1924); Mike Connors (1925);
Stephen Breyer (1938); Linda Ellerbee (1944);
Princess Anne (1950); Ben Affleck (1972);
Events on August 15 (1947)—

India & Pakistan
became independent
after 200 years of British rule.. Friday, August 15, 2014, 2:15-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center— Donna Frankel's 8/15 email of World Dances taught in Gym B— Ruedas: Salsa Rueda, Cotton-Eye Joe, T'Smidge, La Bastringue, Ba La-cha cha, Cross Step Waltz, Big Mamou, Jiffy Mixer, Korobushka, Troika, Pata Pata , New York, New York, Waves; Hukilau, Brazil, Road to the Isles, Miserlou, Greek Syrtos, Moldavian Hora Dragostei; Believe, Swing, Waltz, Meringue

Donna taught 23 World Dances
this summer at Foothill College—
Will try to find links to them.

Saturday, August 16, 2014, 11:50 am-4:50 pm
Los Altos Library— Victoria Lynn Schmidt, "45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters" (2001) (bought $19.99 for $2); 808.397Schmidt (Male & Female Heroes & Villains, Supporting Characters, Journeys); Laurie Lamson, Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (2014)808.3876Lamson; Ann Coombs,
"Trees of Los Altos" (2004) ($12 for $2)

144 trees with photos
and location on the streets
and parks in Los Altos. Saturday, August 16, 2014, 11:50 am-4:50 pm
Los Altos Library— Born August 16:
T. E. Lawrence (1888); Jules Laforgue (1860);
Wendell Stanley (1904); Ernst Schumacher (1911);
Menachem Begin (1913); Fess Parker (1924),
Ann Blyth (1928); Frank Gifford (1930);
Tony Trabert (1930); Lesley Ann Warren (1946); Kathie Lee Gifford (1953); James Cameron (1954); Madonna (1958); Events on August 16 (1977)—

Singer Elvis Presley died
at Graceland Mansion in
Memphis, Tennessee, at 42.

Sunday, August 17, 2014, 1:52-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library— Returned Joe Drape (Ed.), "To The Swift: Classic Triple Crown Horses and Their Race for Glory" (2008) 798.4009Drape; "The Triple Crown: Five Views from the Saddle" By Joseph Durso (Eddie Arcaro, Whirlaway, 1941 & Citation, 1948; Ron Turcotte, Secretariat, 1973; Jean Cruguet, Seattle Slew, 1977; Steve Cauthen, Affirmed, 1978) (pp. 265-267); "Triple Crown Insiders Share Success Recipe" By Joe Drape (pp. 265-267)—

Last three Triple Crown winners
had all raced at Belmont Stakes track
several times before, so it feels like home. Sunday, August 17, 2014, 1:52-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library— Born August 17:
Pierre de Fermat (1601); Thomas Stothard (1755);
Davy Crockett (1786); Mae West (1893);
John Hay Whitney (1904); Hazel Bishop (1906); Maureen O'Hara (1920); Jean Poiret (1926);
V.S. Naipaul (1932); Robert De Niro (1943); Guillermo Vilas (1952); Belinda Carlisle (1958);
Sean Penn (1960); Dustin Pedroia (1983);
Events on August 17 (1969)—

Woodstock Music & Art Fair
concluded as 300,000
leave Bethel, New York.

Monday, August 18, 2014, 12:10-6:00 pm
Mountain View Seni or Center— Born August 18:
Virginia Dare (1587); Antonio Salieri (1750);
Meriwether Lewis (1774); Marshall Field (1835);
Leo Slezak (1873); Rosalynn Carter (1927);
Roman Polanski (1933); Roberto Clemente (1934);
Robert Redford (1937); Martin Mull (1943);
Madeleine Stowe (1958); Timothy Geithner (1961); Events August 18 (1963)—

James Meredith became first
African-American to graduate
from the University of Mississippi. Monday, August 18, 2014, 7:00-9:30 pm
Stanford University: CEMEX Auditorium
Stanford Repertory Theater Festival; Sir Carol Reed
directs "The Third Man" (1949) with Joseph Cotten,
Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard Bernard Lee, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Erich Ponto, Ernst Deutsch, Siegfried Breuer, Paul Hörbiger; (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); Museum; Tour; Locations; Anton Karas plays "Third Man Theme" on zither

Great film noir with
tilting cinematography
and haunting zither music.

Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 12:18-6:00 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill Middlefield Lab— Born August 19:
John Flamsteed (1646); Bernard Baruch (1870);
Georges Enesco (1881); "Coco" Chanel (1883);
Ogden Nash (1902); Gene Roddenberry (1921);
Jill St. John (1940); Bill Clinton (1946),
Tipper Gore (1948); Mary Matalin (1953);
Kyra Sedgwick (1965); Events August 19 (2004)—

Internet search engine
Google goes public
with IPO at $85. Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 6:00-8:20 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill College Room J-7: Donna Frankel shows hour video in Room J-7 of "7/24 World Dance Performance" at Channing House; Nine students met in Gym B as Donna taught Tzadik Katamar (Israel); Planned to teach: Bohemian National Polka; Reinlander (Germany); Hole in the Wall (England); Finland dance; Regency French Quadrille; Maxixe

Donna ends class early
because of poor sound system
and mosquito bites in Gym B.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 1:08-8:45 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill College Middlefield Lab
Formatted 36 photos (March 1-9, Mountain View) (Pamela Drive Apts), Palo Alto (Foothill Middlefield Campus), & Los Altos Hills (Foothill Krause Center); Composed web page Pamela Drive Palms in Backyard & Foothill College Trees & Clouds—

Loop Tree in Backyard,
Pink & Yellow Blossoms,
Seagull & Flaming Clouds. Wednesday, August 20, 2014, 1:08-8:45 pm
Los Altos Library— Born August 20:
Benjamin Harrison (1833); Eliel Saarinen (1873);
Edgar Guest (1881); Salvatore Quasimodo (1901);
Eero Saarinen (1910); Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913);
Connie Chung (1946); David O. Russell (1958);
Todd Helton (1973); Events on August 20 (1968)—

Soviet Union invades
Czechoslovakia to crush
"Prague Spring Uprising".

Thursday, August 21, 2014, 12:20-3:45 pm
Palo Alto: Foothill College Middlefield Lab
"Let's try a little education in Ferguson"
(By Leonard Pitts Jr., SJ Mercury News, 8-21-2014);
Updated Interesting News & Nature Walks 2014; Formatted 8 photos taken on Friday, May 23, 2014, 6:46-7:00 pm, from LeRoyKingCarousel at Children's Creativity Museum, San Francisco; Some favorites—

Children's Creativity Museumm
White Carousel Horse,
Carousel Lion. Thursday, August 21, 2014, 5:00-8:55 pm
Took Bus #35 & Bus #40 to Los Altos Library—
Born August 21: St. Francis De Sales (1888);
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725); Aubrey Beardsley (1872); Roark Bradford (1896); Count Basie (1904);
Friz Freleng (1906); Kenny Rogers (1938);
Clarence Williams III (1939);
Events on August 21 (1959)—

New flag shown as Hawaii
becomes the 50th state
of the United States.

Friday, August 22, 2014, 3:15-4:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center— "ART & DESIGN: Two Silent Men, Deep in Conversation" ('Men in Armor': El Greco & Pulzone at Frick Collection)
(By Roberta Smith, NY Times, 8-22-2014)
"ART & DESIGN: In Redesigned Room,
Hospital Patients May Feel Better Already"
(By Michael Kimmelman, NY Times, 8-22-2014)

When moved to new room,
patients also asked for
30% less pain medication. Friday, August 22, 2014, 6:10-7:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Roy William Neill directs
"Sherlock Holmes & the Secret Weapon" (1943)
with Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce), Lionel Atwill,
Kaaren Verne, William Post Jr., Dennis_Hoey,
Holmes Herbert, Mary Gordon; (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); (YouTube: 1, 2, full film color subtitles); Sherlock Holmes; 4th of 14 Sherlock Holmes (1939 film series)

Professor Moriarty competes
with Sherlock Holmes unlocking
secret code of the dancing men.

Friday, August 22, 2014, 7:30-8:00 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Spencer Gordon Bennet & Thomas Carr direct "Superman" (1948 Serial)
Chapter 3: "The Reducer Ray" Kirk Alyn (Superman), Noel Neill (Lois Lane), Tommy Bond (Jimmy Olsen), Pierre Watkin (Perry White); Carol Forman (Spider Lady); Herbert Rawlinson (Dr. Graham);
(Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3)

Clark Kent gets job
at Daily Planet after
writing on mining disaster. Friday, August 22, 2014, 8:00-9:10 pm
Palo Alto, Stanford Theatre: Eugene Forde
directs "Charlie Chan in London" (1934)
with Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Ray Milland,
Mona Barrie, Douglas Walton, Alan Mowbray, George Barraud, Paul England, Madge Bellamy, Murray_Kinnell; (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(YouTube: trailer, full film)

Charlie Chan finds real killer
and frees innocent man
to be executed in three days.

Saturday, August 23, 2014, 1:30-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Lordier finds beauty in California landscape (Bonny Zanardi, SJ Mercury News, 8-23-2014) (Kim Lordier's "Chasing Beauty" exhibit (through Oct. 19, 2014) at James J. Rieser Fine Art in Carmel— "A Day of Grace, Pt. Lobos"); Garden as Art (Jay Bala: "I really like the symmetric patterns in the stamen area of this awesome, large blossoming sunflower in my garden."; photo)

Kim Lordier's painting
"A Day of Grace, Pt. Lobos"
brings peace with nature. Saturday, August 23, 2014, 1:30-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library— Born August 22:
Louis XVI (1754); William Ernest Henley (1849);
Arnold Toynbee (1852); Edgar Lee Masters (1896);
Jonathan Wainwright (1883); Gene Kelly (1912),
Vera Miles (1930); Barbara Eden (1931); Pete Wilson (1933); Sonny Jurgensen (1934); Shelley Long (1949); Rick Springfield (1949); Queen Noor (1951); Kobe Bryant (1978); Events on August 22 (1926)—

Silent film idol
Rudolph Valentino
died at age 31.

Sunday, August 24, 2014, 2:37-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library— Daniel Jones, "Love Illuminated: Exploring Life's Most Mystifying Subject (with Help of 50,000 Strangers)" (2014) ($26 for $5) 152.41Jones;
Peter Jones, "Spirit Wars: Pagan Revival in Christian America" (1997) ($2) (Anti-Christian prejudice: new spirituality, goddess worship, witchcraft; WinePress); Eben Alexander, "Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife" (2012) ($24.99 for $4) 617.4809Alexand;

Death is not the end;
Consciousness not in brain;
We are immortal. Sunday, August 24, 2014, 2:37-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library— Born August 24:
George Stubbs (1724); Charles Follen McKim (1847);
Max Beerbohm (1872); William F. Gibbs (1886);
Malcolm Cowley (1898); Jorge Luis Borges (1899),
Graham Sutherland (1903); Mike Shanahan (1952); Gerry Cooney (1956); Cal Ripken Jr. (1960);
Reggie Miller (1965); Rupert Grint (1988);
Events on August 24 (79 AD)—

Mount Vesuvius erupted
and volcanic ash buried
city of Pompeii.

Sunday, August 24, 2014, 2:37-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library— Books for Sale: Leigh Montville, "The Big Bam: Life & Times of Babe Ruth" (2006) ($26.95 for $3) 796.357Ruth.Montvil (Sultan of Swat, Caliph of Clout, Wizard of Whack, The Bambino); Killian Jordan (Ed.), "Legends: The Century's Most Unforgettable Faces" (1997) ($29.95 for $3) 779.2 LIFE (p. 74: Marlene Dietrich on Orson Welles: "When I have seen him and talked with him, I feel like a plant that has been watered." p. 148: e.e. cummings: "Love is the whole and more than all."); Sam M. Intrator & Megan Scribner, "Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead" (2007) ($19.95 for $3); p. 240: Robert Frost's "Directive"—

Here are your waters and
your watering place. Drink and
be whole again beyond confusion. Sunday, August 24, 2014, 2:37-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Bookmarking stories from New York Times: "MOVIES: Richard Attenborough, Actor, Director and Giant of British Cinema, Dies at 90"
(By Benedict Nightingale, NY Times, 8-24-2014) (Attenborough won Academy Award in directing Gandhi); "BUSINESS: John F. Akers, 79, Dies; Led IBM as PCs Ascended" (By Rick Rojas & Steve Lohr, NY Times, 8-24-2014); OP-ED; Black, White and Baseball (By Frank Bruni, NY Times, 8-24-2014)
(A 13-year-old Mo'ne Davis captured the country's hearts at the Little League World Series);
OP-ED: Order vs. Disorder, Part 3
(By Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times, 8-24-2014)

Preserving and expanding
the world of sustainable order is
the leadership challenge of our time.

Sunday, August 24, 2014, 7:30-9:25 pm
Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli
directs "Gigi" (1958) starring Leslie Caron,,
Louis Jourdan Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold,
Isabel Jeans, Eva Gabor, Jacques Bergerac, John Abbott; (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)

Maurice Chevalier's song
"I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore"
is lovely waltz music to dance to. Sunday, August 24, 2014, 9:25-11:01 pm
Stanford Theatre: Vincente Minnelli
directs "The Reluctant Debutante" (1958)
starring Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon,
Sandra Dee, Angela Lansbury, Diane Clare,
Peter Myers; (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4);
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3); Rudy liked "Gigi" more

Sandra Dee plays daughter
reluctant to go to debutante
in love with drummer John Saxon.

Monday, August 25, 2014, 11:32 am-12:30 pm
Mountain View— 11:32 am Bus #34 to Castro Street;
Photo of "Bronze Lion" (Ristorante Don Giovanni),
235 Castro St.; Went inside Books Inc (301 Castro St) for schedule of Nick Pope's 8/26 7 pm talk on his 2014 book "Encounter in Rendlesham Forest"; Nick Pope talked on Coast-to-Coastam.com "Rendlesham UFO Incident" (6-12-2014); Lancets & test strips at Kaiser Hospital (12:22 pm); Made 12:24 pm Bus 35 (Castro St. & California St.) to Ortega Ave (to help friend)

Rendlesham Forest UFO
encounter in 1980 is better
than 1947 Roswell incident. Monday, August 25, 2014, 1:44-8:45 pm
Mountain View Senior Center— Born August 25:
Ivan lV "The Terrible" (1530); Allan Pinkerton (1819); Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845); Hans Adolf Krebs (1900); Walt Kelly (1913); Leonard Bernstein (1918), Monty Hall (1921); Althea Gibson (1927); Sean Connery (1930); Regis Philbin (1931); Rollie Fingers (1946); Tim Burton (1958); Albert Belle (1966); Rachael Ray (1968); Claudia Schiffer (1970); Events on August 25 (1944)—

Paris liberated
by Allied forces after
four years of Nazi occupation.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014, 12:53-5:00 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room Born August 26:
Robert Walpole (1676); Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740); Antoine Lavoisier (1743); Lee de Forest (1873); Jules Romains (1885), Peggy Guggenheim (1898); Maxwell D. Taylor (1901); Christopher Isherwood (1904); Mother Teresa (1910);
Benjamin C. Bradlee (1921); Ben Wattenberg (1933);
Tom Heinsohn (1934); Branford Marsalis (1960);
Macaulay Culkin (1980); Events on August 26 (1920)

19th Amendment to
U.S. Constitution, guarantees
women the right to vote. Tuesday, August 26, 2014, 7:00-8:30 pm
Mountain View: Books Inc (301 Castro Street)
Nick Pope's talk on his 2014 book "Encounter in Rendlesham Forest" (co-written with U.S. Air Force eyewitnesses John Burroughs and Jim Penniston);
Nick Pope talked on Coast-to-Coastam.com "Rendlesham UFO Incident" on June 12, 2014;
Linda Moulton Howe's Earthfiles.com: May 15, 2014: "British MoD Withholding Secret UFO Documents"; Nick's wife is Elizabeth Weiss, SJSU anthropologist;

Rudy and I listened to
Nick Pope's lecture on
"Rendlesham Forest UFO Encounter"

Wednesday, August 27, 2014, 1:30-4:30 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Born August 27:
Sophia Smith (1796); Charles Dawes (1865);
Theodore Dreiser (1871); Carl Bosch (1874);
Man Ray (1890), C. S. Forester (1898);
Frank Leahy (1908); Lyndon B. Johnson (1908);
Tuesday Weld (1943); Bob Kerrey (1943);
Jim Thome (1970); Events on August 27 (1883)

Volcano Krakatoa erupted
killing 36,000 people in
islands Java and Sumatra. Wednesday, August 27, 2014, 1:30-4:30 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Took 9 pages of notes
of Nick Pope's talk on his "Encounter in Rendlesham Forest" book (YouTube); Aliens Landed in Suffolk Forest (By Tony Rennell, Daily Mail, UK, 4-18-2014); Code; When Nick mentioned time travellers from 8001, I told him about 1008 Upanishads written by Hindu sages (also 1008 Divine Names) (Year 8100?)

UFO Binary Code from
8001 may be 1008 Upanishads
time-travelers— "We are you."

Wednesday, August 27, 2014, 5:15-8:00 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room:
322 Chinmayananda Books at Amazon.com—
Rudite Emir's "At Every Breath, A Teaching: Stories about the life & teachings of Swami Chinmayananda"; Say Cheese: Witty Wisdom by Swami Chinmayananda

Chinmayananda books
at Sunnyvale Library
and Amazon.com. Wednesday, August 27, 2014, 5:15-8:00 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Technology Room:
YouTube Videos of Swami Chinmayananda Talks:
"How to set your goal in life?"; "Chinmayananda Explains Vasanas Through BMI chart"; Hubert Jessup's 1974 "New Heaven New Earth" Interview—

Shut up! Get out!—
Shut up your mental thoughts
and get out of this worldly mess.

Thursday, August 28, 2014, 12:15-4:30 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Born August 28:
Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749); St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774); Leo Tolstoy (1828); Charles Stewart Rolls (1877); Charles Boyer (1899), James Wong Howe (1899); Bruno Bettelheim (1903); Roger Tory Peterson (1908); Richard Tucker (1913); William Cohen (1940); Lou Piniella (1943); Scott Hamilton (1958); Events on August 28 (1963)

200,000 in D.C. to hear
Martin Luther King Jr.'s
"I Have a Dream" speech. Thursday, August 28, 2014, 12:15-4:30 pm
Paulson Park Computer Room: Interesting news:
"Mystery of Death Valley's 'Sailing' Stones Solved: Rocks Filmed Moving For The First Time" (Weather.com, 8-28-2014) (Rocks moved by sheets of ice); "Baby elephant attacked after challenging bull buffalo" (By Chris Perez, NY Post, 8-28-2014); "Elephants Dancing to Violin!'
(By Eleanor Bartsch, YouTube, 8-24-2014)

Elephants love Bach
swaying and dancing
as Bartsch played her violin.

Friday, August 29, 2014, 7:30-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: Louis King directs
"Charlie Chan in Egypt" (1935) with Warner Oland, Pat Paterson, Thomas Beck, Rita Hayworth (as Rita Cansino), Jameson Thomas, Frank Conroy, Nigel De Brulier; (YouTube: full film); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

With X-ray machine
Charlie Chan discovers
murdered archaelogish
inside a sarcophagus. Friday, August 29, 2014, 9:10-10:18 pm
Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: Roy William Neill
directs "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death" (1943)
starring Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Dennis Hoey,
Arthur Margetson, Hillary Brooke, Halliwell Hobbes, Milburn Stone, Gavin Muir, Gerald Hamer; (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, full film)

Holmes solves a series
of murders by a chess game
with human players.

Saturday, August 30, 2014, 3:20-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Born August 29:
John Locke (1632); Jean-Auguste Ingres (1780); Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809); Albert Bartholome (1848); Maurice Maeterlinck (1899); Charles Kettering (1876); Preston Sturges (1898);
Ingrid Bergman (1915); Nathan Pritikin (1915);
Charlie Parker (1920); Dinah Washington (1924); Thom Gunn (1929); William Friedkin (1935);
John McCain (1936); Robert Rubin (1938);
Bob Beamon (1946); Michael Jackson (1958);
Events on August 29 (1991)

Soviet Parliament bans
Communist Party activities
ending the old regime. Saturday, August 30, 2014, 3:20-5:30 pm
Los Altos Library: Born August 30: Jacques-Louis David (1748); Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797);
Théophile Gautier (1811); Jacobus Hoff (1852);
Ernest Rutherford (1871); Raymond Massey (1896);
Shirley Booth (1898); John Gunther (1901);
Fred MacMurray (1908); E. M. Purcell (1912);
Warren Buffett (1930); Elizabeth Ashley (1939);
Robert Crumb (1943); Jean-Claude Killy (1943);
Peggy Lipton (1946); Robert Parish (1953);
Cameron Diaz (1972); Cliff Lee (1978);
Andy Roddick (1982); Events August 30 (2005)

Hurricane Katrina kills
more than 1,700 people
and floods New Orleans.

Sunday, August 31, 2014, 3:06-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: Born August 31:
Caligula (12 AD); John Neville Keynes (1852);
Maria Montessori (1870); Queen Wilhelmina (1880);
George Sarton (1884); Fredric March (1897),
Arthur Godfrey (1903); Dore Schary (1905);
Ramon Magsaysay (1907); William Shawn (1907);
William Saroyan (1908); Alan Jay Lerner (1918);
Frank Robinson (1935); Van Morrison (1945),
Itzhak Perlman (1945); Richard Gere (1949);
Queen Rania (1970); Larry Fitzgerald (1983);
Events on August 31 (1997)

Britain's Princess Diana
died in Paris car crash
at age 36. Sunday, August 31, 2014, 3:06-5:50 pm
Los Altos Library: "OP-ED: When Did We Get So Old?" (There are around 77 million boomers, the largest generation in the U.S. population. Someone turns 50 every seven seconds.) (By Michele Willens, NY Times, 8-31-2014); "SCIENCE: Brainy, Yes, but Far from Handy" (Building a Robot With Human Touch; the master manipulator of a DaVinci surgical robot.) (By John Markoff, NY Times, 8-30-2014); "RETIRING: Increasingly, Retirees Dump Their Possessions and Hit the Road"
(By David Wallis, NY Times, 8-30-2014)—

American retirees choose
a life of travel over a life
of tending to possessions.

Sunday, August 31, 2014, 7:30-9:40 pm
Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: Mervyn LeRoy directs
"Random Harvest" (1942) starring Ronald Colman,,
Greer Garson Susan Peters, Philip Dorn,
Henry Travers, Reginald Owen, Bramwell Fletcher, (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, full film)

Superb amnesia acting by
Ronald Coleman forgetting
his marriage to Greer Garson. Sunday, August 31, 2014, 9:50-11:35 pm
Palo Alto: Stanford Theatre: John M. Stahl directs
"Only Yesterday" (1933) starring Margaret Sullavan,
John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke,
Benita Hume, Reginald Denny, George Meeker;
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); (YouTube: 1, 2, 3 , 4 )

Margaret Sullavan's first film
based on Stefan Zweig's novel
Letter from an Unknown Woman.