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Wordless Wednesday - Stormy May

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Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday - Yesterday in Norway

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Wordless Wednesday Constitution Day

Yo, Adrian!

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35 years ago I saw "Rocky" for the second and last time—until now. I am surprised at how much I've forgotten about the movie, and what I did remember no longer matters. So many icons came out of this movie: The trumpet fanfare of the theme song, the personal triumph run up the front steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rocky's "Yo, Adrian!", manual meat-tenderizing. My 15-year-old self thought Carl Weathers was gorgeous and his character Apollo Creed fantastic. She liked Rocky himself, and his turtles, but didn't much care for any of the other characters, except for Adrian. The scene where Rocky drinks five raw eggs got loud "eww"s in the movie theater. The girl herself only freaked when watching Rocky for the second time, from the front row because the scene where they cut Rocky's eye lid to ease the swelling and the blood squirts out got a little too bloody when seen 10 feet away from a big screen. 35 years later, the movie is at

Wordless Wednesday - From inside the concert hall

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Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday - It's cherry blossom time again

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Wordless Wednesday