HiddenEntries (A Wholly Owned Cynthia Publishing Company Subsidiary Blog)

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A Sure Sign of Memorial Day Weekend in La-La Land…

Behold the unmistakable jacaranda. It’s in bloom, and that can mean only one thing: we’re approaching the unofficial start of summer. Beautiful. Man cannot improve upon Mother Nature’s handiwork. We should not even try. Continue reading →

Dortmund über alles

All right, all right, ya fútbol fansz! The last meaningful game of your 2012-13 season, and it is a throwback to the old PBS programme called Soccer Made in Germany. Remember that show? Way before Jeff Smith as The Frugal Gourmet, way before I, Claudius. Yup, Soccer Made in Germany on PBS. Remember it now?

So, today it’s the Pride of Bavaria, Bayern München v. Borussia Dortmund. The man in the picture is Dortmund’s manager, Herr Jürgen Klopp. How can you not root for this guy? After all, he is the underdog. After all, he said the unchecked spending going on at Bayern is making that team like “a James Bond villain”. And he’s not afraid to weep soulfully. After all, when one of his top players last year, the Japanese firecracker midfielder Shinji Kagawa, had no option but to accept a move to global giants Manchester United, Klopp admitted, “We cried for 20 minutes, in each others’ arms, when he left.” Continue reading →

Can’t get enough of this one right now; it’s been on a continuous loop here for the last 36 hours. Smooth and uplifting. (No, it’s not a brassiere!)

As always, we are indebted to the ANTHRAX BOUTIQUE (a k a Anthropologie) for turning us on to this artist. Just as only good things happen when you throw the puck into the area in front of goal, so only good things happen when you are forced to spend countless hours in the ANTHRAX BOUTIQUE, a veritable feast for all the senses, right down to the patchouli, not necessarily on the shelves, either! Continue reading →

We don’t normally shill for the Corporate World, but the actress in this commercial should be in many more things on TV & cinema. We’d take her on as a spokesmodel, but probably she is above our pay-grade! Oh, well… Continue reading →

R.I.P., Ray Manzarek. Moonlight Drive always a top Doors song, a rock-’n’-roll tango.

This is a Bunnymen song, concert footage. However, the studio version from their self-titled 1987 album features Mr. Manzarek on the keyboards. You can hear it from the opening riff. Farewell! Continue reading →