Glory movie trailer

I just watched this 1989 movie for the first time. It's particularly powerful given all the Confederate statue controversy going on today. Denzel was masterful. I'm going to watch Philadelphia next.

Visiting the Duncan collection?

We are going to K's high school reunion next month in Richmond, Virginia. Just a short three hour drive away is the Duncan collection. You may remember Jalopnik featuring it recently? The one with dozens and dozens of Figaros? The owner and his assistant both emailed me back, welcoming me. I just have to rent a second car and take an entire day by myself to visit the cars. Is it worth it? Here is the inventory.

Pyongyang street corner

Future posts about northern Minnesota

We had a wonderful vacation along the shores of Lake Superior last week. But with the baby and work, I am simply too exhausted to write anything cogent.

For example, I deleted two drafts of a post about race and the two diners I visited. Race is a sensitive subject and I don't talk about it much, so I wanted to make sure the blog post came out clear. It's a work in progress. Maybe this weekend.

We stayed in a cabin north of Duluth. Duluth is an absolutely foreign place. With its no-nonsense industrial port and Soviet apartment blocks, it's more Siberia than Upper Midwest.

I spotted a couple of Travco Dodge RVs on my way to get some smoked fish.

And here's a view from our porch. Lake Superior holds 10% of the world's fresh water.

Here's grandpa holding Tamerlane Jr at the Split Rock Lighthouse, once the most visited lighthouse in the United States.

A view from the lighthouse.

Panda eating bamboo

This is mesmerizing.

Unusual and creative art project for German train passengers

Peruvian TV airing programming in Quechua

Other than Paraguay, indigenous languages in Latin America have been marginalized and looked down upon. This is changing in Peru, as the new-ish president is promoting Quechua and other languages with TV and radio programs in those languages. Here's an ad promoting Quechua programming. You can read more about this positive development in this Economist article.