Where did you get that hat

It has been so cold here, in the 20's. While looking for a hat to wear, shivering at the thought of going outside. This little ballad came to mind. I think it is from either 1880's or early 1900.

 
George Eastman House

The way I came to wear this hat
Is very strange and funny,
Grandfather died and left to me
His property and money.
And when the will it was read out,
It told me straight and flat,
That if I had the money,
I must always wear this hat.

Chorus

Where did you get that hat,
Where did you get that tile,
And isn't it a nobby one,
And what a proper style.
I should like to have one
Just the same as that;
Where'er I go they shout, Hulloa,
Where did you get that hat.

     I think I may have ended up looking very much like this:

     The Library of Congress

Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival

For additional photographs of this extremely impressive Winter Wonderland look at the following website.

http://rtoddking.com/chinawin2009_hb_if.htm

No Pants - No Not Me

A New Approach To China

I have never been to China, but I have some Google news:

"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

Google Inc. said it has begun talks with the Chinese government about the company’s plan to stop censoring results from its search engine, after saying it may quit the country because of cyber attacks.

 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&sid=aREgM8FvboOM

"Here’s hoping Google Inc. makes good on its threat to quit China.
It’s time someone in the U.S. stopped coddling the Chinese police state. The American government can’t, or won’t."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=ahCnUgr3zDwI

An edible replica of China's Great Wall was built entirely from solid chocolate bricks

R&B Great Teddy Pendergrass Dead at 59 After Cancer Battle : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily

R&B Great Teddy Pendergrass Dead at 59 After Cancer Battle : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily:
Teddy Pendergrass, one of the most successful R&B singers of the 1970s and ’80s, passed away yesterday after a battle with colon cancer. He was 59. Pendergrass was diagnosed with cancer last year and had a difficult time recovering from surgery; he died at Bryn Mawr Hospital outside of his native Philadelphia, ABC News reports."

What Will My Blog Be About?

I AM ME OR WHO I AM

“I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me.  Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone chose it -- I own everything about me: my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or myself. I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears. I own my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes. Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me. By so doing, I can love me and be friendly with all my parts. I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know -- but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and ways to find out more about me. However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me. If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought, and felt turn out to be unfitting, I can discard that which is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded. I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do. I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me. I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.”

- Virginia Satir