May 10, 2020

Happy Mother's Day. I toast you all with a Mimosa.



Shakespeare and the plague was a pertinent article.



$17 win with two free plays.

July 16, 2019

Happy Father's Day!



Shaft was a mixed bag. Some good lines but mostly uneven. Hey, there's Titus Welliver , he was Silas Adams in Deadwood.



Mimosas!

May 12, 2019

Happy Mother's Day! My early start: Mimosas.



Shakespeare in the Park starts with Much Ado About Nothing.I'm re-reading it and I have begun watching the Globe production. Eve Best and Charles Edwards make a fine pair.



Going deep into Much Ado About Nothing. Nothing and Noting throughout the play, being homophones at the time. No thing, Nothing was a euphemism for vagina back then. My first take is how similar the speeches of Beatrice and Benedict are to the usual jester set-pieces. Jesters in love, speaking truth, wise fools.

January 1, 2019

2019 looks to be a year of major changes. May not have a job by the end of the year. All is good, my landing will be fine.



Mimosas! With leftover Champagne.



Knish Nosh Dogs and Knishes are a yearly tradition.



So is Hoppin John, this year with Shrimp and Bay Scallops.



French director Robert Enrico’s memorable 24-minute film adaptation of Ambrose Bierce’s short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge originally aired on the CBS network on February 28, 1964, during the fifth and final season of Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone.”

Ambrose Bierce was last heard from in a letter to his secretary and companion, Carrie Christiansen — dated December 1913, and bearing a Chihuahua, Mexico, postmark — writing to her:

“If you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican wall and shot to rags, please know that I think it’s a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico — ah, that is euthanasia.”



Sterling Hollaway, the voice of Pooh and  William Demarest in What's in the Box.

November 22, 2018

Happy Thanksgiving!



Wall art, 13th street off of Third Avenue.



9:00am, Channel 11: The March of the Wooden Soldiers. A Thanksgiving tradition.



Mimosas!

December 24, 2017

Andre's Hungarian Bakery is nearby. These Marzipan creations looked too good to pass up.



Mimosa in my new Christmas glass.



Get Out is now on cable. Will give it a try. Really good movie. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner meets The Stepford Wives. At first, I thought Karl Malden made an entrance, but no it was Richard Herd.

Since football looks like a snooze today, Scrooge with Seymour Hicks is on the agenda.



Another holiday beer.

May 14, 2017

Mimosas in honor of Mother's Day. My mother and wife are gone but they will be sharing this with me today. Was sick from a new brand of antibiotics last night. Was taking it after a tooth extraction. I hear carbonation helps settle the stomach. Also, drinking a lot of liquids will flush out the medicine.



$5 coupon, no cooking today.

January 1, 2017

Mimosas with left-over champagne.



Box calendars for my colleagues, a yearly tradition. 50% off on January 1.

December 18, 2016

Not quite re-gifting but I do some questionable things. Like: reading the books I give as gifts, hint - be careful and read it without leaving traces; getting Starbucks gift cards and accumulate points for free coffee for myself, hint - you have to purchase the gift cards via your registered Starbucks card.

Am I wrong for doing this ?



Alastair Sim returns ! TCM has A Christmas Carol on December 22nd at 11:30 p.m. With Alastair above is Mervyn Johns, the father of  Glynis Johns, who I remember from the  Dead of Night (1945.)

The Reginald Owen version is on at 9:00 a.m. today.



My youngest received a Rosé Champagne bottle at his Christmas party. He doesn't like champagne. I do and that means Mimosas.



Another $10 win.

January 3, 2016

Leftover Champagne from New Year's = Mimosas !



"There has been an awakening. Have you felt it?"
―Snoke to Kylo Ren



Hat from the movie set in New Zealand. That's Gollum crawling across the top.



DVR'd Forum last night.



On demand just in time for my reading of the Sinatra biography. Sinatra lost to Ernest Borgnine's Marty for the Oscar.

May 12, 2012

R.I.P. NY Knicks. Still, a very exciting and watchable season. A flawed team but lots of fun to watch.

Survivor One World Finale tomorrow night. Looks like Kimsanity rules. Probably Chelsea and Sabrina in final Three.

Mother's day in this house starts with Mimosas and Godiva Truffles. Beautiful day in store.

Wild, attention-grabbing cover. Just in time for Mother's Day. Skål!

Still my favorite Magazine cover of all time. I have the original. Playdead's interview of Dan Blocker was hilarious.

February 14, 2012

Started the day with Amo, Amas, Amat in the NYT Crossword. Finished with Mimosas and Godiva truffles.



My guilty pleasure, Survivor, starts tomorrow.



It's St. VaLINtine's Day ! Jeremy Lin wins game with one second to go.

March 12, 2011

A long weekend to celebrate Daylight Saving time. Bloody Marys for Sunday, Mimosas for Monday



Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, picked Caine from The Caine Mutiny. Now, I'll have to pick up his previous Autobiography What's it All About .



In the book, he talks about the original The Italian Job . Now, I have to get it. Any movie with Michael Caine , Noël Coward and Benny Hill has to be watched. I did see the new version and it was OK.



Oliver Sacks is very readable and the stories he tells are fascinating. In this one, he includes his own problems.



Great games so far. This one by Princeton was a great buzzer-beater. Also, the A-10 has been turned upside down. U-Conn - Louisville game was as good as College Ball gets.