Random Thoughts by Mark Milliorn

After a career of teaching history, it is so much fun to write about nonsense.

Saturday, November 28, 2020

Bottle Trees

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You’ve seen them, and if you are from the South, you probably know someone who has one in their yard.  Take a tree (preferably a crepe myrtl...
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Saturday, November 21, 2020

About Time to Shove the Cob

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Enema U is an ag school, so I guess technically, I’m an Aggie.  Yeah, I’ve heard all the Aggie jokes.  (Did you hear about the Aggie coyote ...
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Saturday, November 14, 2020

The Queen of Washington D.C.

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As we begin to once again change the occupants of the White House, we are starting to see stories about both outgoing and incoming First Lad...
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Saturday, November 7, 2020

Once Upon a Time In Westerns

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The other night, The Doc and I were watching the new Tarantino movie and I had a hell of time figuring out who was who.  I’m face blind, and...
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Saturday, October 31, 2020

Strange Things I’ve Learned Studying Art

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Now that I’ve been studying art history, I’ve noticed that it is hard to stop being a historian.  I find myself frequently studying the arti...
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Saturday, October 24, 2020

A Day in the Park

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It was a beautiful fall day, and as his destination was only a few blocks past the other side of Central Park, the man decided to forego usi...
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Saturday, October 17, 2020

They Had It Coming

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I love the musical Chicago .  It’s a great play, a good CD for the car, and I even enjoyed reading the play, but none of that compares to wa...
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Saturday, October 10, 2020

The Arnolfini Portrait

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Considering that the Arnolfini Portrait is a world-famous Dutch masterpiece, why is its home today the National Gallery in London?  Though t...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

November 23, 1963

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  Regular readers will be heartbroken to hear that this is not the blog I thought I would write today.  Last night, I had a vague idea that ...
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Mark Milliorn
Now that I'm retired, I'm a student again. I just finished my fifth bachelor's degree and I'm looking for a new major. I make terrible watercolor paintings that I burn so they can't be used as evidence at my commitment hearing.
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