January 19, 2020

Being played a lot on Sirius-XM Classic Vinyl. Good song.

Call Me the Breeze
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
Well now, they call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
I ain't got me nobody
I don't carry me no load
Ain't no change in the weather
Ain't no changes in me
Well, there ain't no change in the weather
Ain't no changes in me
And I ain't hidin' from nobody
Nobody's hidin' from me
Oh, that's the way its supposed to be
Well, I got that green light, baby
I got to keep movin' on
Well, I got that green light, baby
I got to keep movin' on
Well, I might go out to California
Might go down to Georgia, I don't know
Well, I dig you Georgia peaches
Makes me feel right at home
Well now, I dig you Georgia…



Harry and Tonto was on-demand. OK movie, nothing special. Although I love Art Carney,(who doesn't?), no way he should have received an Oscar. Carney beat Albert Finney, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson and Al Pacino, for their performances in Murder on the Orient Express, Lenny, Chinatown and The Godfather Part II respectively, for the 1974 Academy Award for Best Actor. Here is one buff's: theories.



Also watched True Confessions on-demand.Joan Didion did the screenplay with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, based on his novel. The dialogue was top-notch and Kenneth McMillan and Charles Durning were outstanding.

June 2, 2018

Short but incisive observations from a great observer.



Randomness, uncertainty, probability-right up my alley.



First visit this year to Smorgasburg. Lots to try, I avoided the long waits.



Grilling the Squid.



Mighty Quinns had a long line. This place had real good brisket.

May 4, 2016

Perfect score !



Books to take to Hawaii. 1. The White Album by Joan Didion:

"I could indulge here in a little idle generalization, could lay off my own state of profound emotional shock on the larger cultural breakdown, could talk fast about convulsions in the society, and alienation and anomie and maybe even assassination, but that would be just one more stylish shell game. I am not the society in microcosm. I am a thirty-four-year-old woman with long straight hair and an old bikini bathing suit and bad nerves sitting on an island in the middle of the Pacific waiting for a tidal wave that will not come."



2. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, recent winner of the Pulitzer prize.




3. From Here to Eternity.



4. Ulysses.

April 26, 2014

Flounder from P.E. and D.D. Seafood topped with Shrimp.



I like his other stuff, why not try his wine ?



My $25 gift card and $3.90 nook settlement bought me this, an interesting read which had me looking up several words.



And this, unusual in that it was 16 oz.