September 30, 2018

The same company (Roebling's Sons) manufactured the cables for the Golden Gate Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge.

September 29, 2018

RIP Marty Balin. Listened to After Bathing at Baxter's this morning. Baxter was their code for LSD.

September 27, 2018

Watched The Naked and the Dead, I had read the book ages ago. The use of "Fug" was amusing. The movie was good but the flashbacks were jarring. Directed by Raoul Walsh. Aldo Ray, Raymond Massey and Joey Bishop were excellent. Hey Max Showalter! I recognize you from It's a Good Life, Twilight Zone. Max was also known as Casey Adams.

September 23, 2018

Nice Thirties comedy on TCM this morning. Roland Young is great as "Sahib." Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is also engaging. Fairbanks had an incredible WWII record.



No more peaches, alas corn about to stop. Silver Queen is preferred. This was a good year.



Books on my bed mean currently being read or about to be read.

September 22, 2018

Autumnal Equinox here is at 9:54 pm EDT.



Cornucopia.



$65 win!

September 21, 2018

Picked up Fear by Bob Woodward. Scary and fascinating.

September 19, 2018

$672 win! Have to go to a Lottery Center to pick up the money. In Queens, it is at Resorts World on Rockaway Boulevard. Taxes are due for anything over $600.



New Park Pizza is still top-notch.



The John Lennon stamps came with a nicely designed layout,

September 17, 2018

The colors were interesting in this shot.



Madison Square Eats: Truffle Cheesesteak and Maduro Brown Ale.

September 16, 2018

Staten Island, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.



View of harbor from Ft. Wadsworth.



Measure for Measure in the Wild West.



Goats.



Wall Art.

September 15, 2018

Groping for trout in a peculiar river: A Shakespearean joke used in Measure for Measure, where groping describes a method of fishing by feeling for them in the water with the hands; peculiar was already in use to describe a mistress, much in the same way a cat or an owl might be a witch’s peculiar.



LUCIO

Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo,
And let him learn to know, when maidens sue,
Men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel,
All their petitions are as freely theirs
As they themselves would owe them.

September 9, 2018

Carolyn Johnson-White, Jimmy Carter(89-year-old from Blind Boys of Alabama), and J.D. Steele were great and such wonderful voices.



A little rain but well worth sitting through it.

September 8, 2018

In my change at the supermarket.



The Gospel At Colonus tickets at the Marcy Library.



Attack cat while waiting.


Oedipus cursing Polynices, with Ismene & Antigone

OEDIPUS: Dear son of Aegeus, to the gods alone
Is given immunity from old age and death;
But nothing else escapes all-ruinous time.

September 4, 2018

http://www.johndorish.com/ - John Dorish

At the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit. I used to be a Janitor at PS3. I would see this every day. It's still there.

September 3, 2018

Happy Labor Day!



Annual Tanger-Riverhead shopping trip with the grandkids. Bought a shirt and underwear.



Rod Taylor is excellent as the time traveler. William Tuttle handled the make-up for the movie.



Sugar thefts and formic acid. What took them so long to figure out it was ants?

September 2, 2018

Finally saw To Have and Have Not. I agree it is sort of Casablanca lite. One big difference: Bacall and Bogie are white-hot, where Bogie and Bergman just act. Dan Seymour as the "heavy" is not quite French but wears a beret to try and pull it off.

September 1, 2018

$30 win!



Just finished The Annotated Big Sleep. Now the movie is on TCM Demand. Carmen Sternwood's(Martha Vickers ) role in the book is quite different as is Vivian Rutledge.