April 29, 2018

Flowers at Union Square.



$25 win!

April 23, 2018

I don't really watch new series, don't have the patience or time. But, Westworld seemed right up my alley. It was. Binge-watched episodes 1-8 yesterday, will be caught up by tonight. AI and a theory of consciousness: thought-provoking stuff.



Saw Ready Player One. Too long and too busy. But, look at many things I missed: Easter Eggs.




Lots of similarities, besides the haircuts, shared by the character F'Nale Zandor played by Hannah John-Kamen of Ready Player One and  Luv played by Sylvia Hoeks in Blade Runner 2049

April 21, 2018

Vince Ricardo: What do you think will happen when they run off this dough... and there's trillions of extra dollars, francs, and marks floating around? You've got a collapse of confidence in the currency. People are gonna panic. There's gonna be gold riots, atonal music... political chaos, mass suicide. Right? It's Germany before Hitler. You can see that. Jesus, I don't know what people are gonna do... when a six-pack of Budweisers costs $1,200. That'll be awful.

April 14, 2018

Bullfighting, Opera, Prostitutes, search for sexuality: this sounds like The Sun Also Rises on steroids.



The Decker building: Andy Warhol had his Factory on the sixth floor of this building from 1968 through 1973.



The flowering pear trees are in full bloom.



$30 win!

April 13, 2018

New books ordered.

April 10, 2018

Spring is officially here! Baseball, 70° and now the Forsythias are in bloom.

April 9, 2018

Perfect score!



Starz on demand has the LOTR trilogy. The Fellowship of the Ring with closed captions lets you discover tidbits of dialogue that are easily missed. LOTR in the news lately with Amazon's anticipated new series. Perhaps room for Tom Bombadil?

April 7, 2018

Villa Manor in Brooklyn is a great old-school place. Their onion rolls are sublime.



Was in the area, a must visit. Their ribs are the best in NYC.



Yoda clock added to my Star Wars kitchen.

April 1, 2018

Happy Eastover and April Fool's Day. Starting with chocolate and Bloody Marys.



I did two ESPN brackets: one has Virginia winning, the other Vilanova. The losing bracket is in the 90%, the Villanova 74%. This will change if Villanova wins. I am also in a pool and I have Michigan. Guess who I am rooting for to win.