November 23, 2017

Happy Thanksgiving !



Turks !



Spectrum was down since last night. Luckily, I had the DVDs of The Hollow Crown available.



BBC-A has the original Star Trek on all day

November 24, 2016

Happy Thanksgiving !



Thanksgiving breakfast. Burger King 89¢ pancakes, coupon hash browns, French toast sticks and topped with a McDonald's Egg McMuffin.



Local Starbucks in the spirit.



Salvador Dali street art on 35th street.



Finally did a Black Friday sale. Ordered a Cast Iron pan and two ties. Having it shipped (free over $50) to my job to beat the crowds.



BBC-A has a Star Trek marathon.The second episode ("Where No Man Has Gone Before") has Mark Piper (Paul Fix) as the ship's doctor.

Kirk's middle initial is given as "R." in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and is seen clearly on the gravestone fashioned by Mitchell for Kirk; subsequent episodes use "James T. Kirk". His middle name was revealed to be "Tiberius."

August 27, 2016

Lunch the other day, pretty good stuff.



The Maltese Falcon available on-demand. I've seen it countless times but keep going back. The book has an interesting side-trip of no value to the plot except the insights it gives to Sam Spade: referred to as The Flitcraft Parable.

"The life he knew was a clean, orderly, sane, responsible affair. Now a falling beam had shown him that life was fundamentally none of these things. He, the good citizen-husband-father, could be wiped out between office and restaurant by the accident of a falling beam. He knew then that men died at haphazard like that, and lived only while blind chance spared them."



Bush and Stockton. Where Miles Archer was shot.



More specific: Burrit Alley, just off Bush Street above the Stockton Tunnel.



Star Trek Beyond is on tap for tonight. First two were watchable.

June 29, 2013

Heard this in a friend's office yesterday. This one is a great collection. Includes the only live version and several alternate takes.



I used to see the Con Ed Building from my bedroom window when I was growing up.



This new sculpture, which replaced the silver Andy Warhol, reminds me of the Star Trek Guardian of Forever.



No corn yet, hoping next week. Sunflowers still look good. Picked up some Weakfish Fillets from P.E. and D.D. Seafood.
















From the Barnes and Noble Starbucks Cafe.

September 8, 2012

Guinness Black Lager is the weekend beer.



Google's Star Trek Doodle was great. Takes you on a little adventure with sound effects. Each screen gives you three options, Tribbles in the transporter room overhead compartment in the second screen

Scroll over the "I'm feeling lucky" button and it changes to one of several options: "I'm feeling trendy" ,"I'm feeling wonderful", "I'm feeling Hungry" and "I'm feeling puzzled.



There are now two sellers of White Corn. This is the best of the season.



Flowers still all over the market.

October 24, 2010

"Shatneresque" as an answer in yesterday's NYT crossword led me to my personal library which has the above book. The original script for "The City on the Edge of Forever" by Harlan Ellison.



Here's Harlan Ellison explaining why his version and especially his ending was best.



Keith Richards autobiography Life comes out this week. CBS Sunday Morning did a nice piece on the roll-out of the book. Here is Keith Richards on Snorting Dad's Ashes. Book is on the must-read list.



The The Paris Review’s author interview series is now on-line. I always loved the one they did with Don DeLillo.
"Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them. Maybe I wanted to find more rigorous ways of thinking."



A re-boot of Holmes in modern times will debut tonight: Sherlock. Opening episode is A Study in Pink, in contrast to A Study in Scarlet. Wonder if Mormons and RACHE come into play.



Today’s quote of the day in The Big Picture Blog is too good not to share:
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks], will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." -Thomas Jefferson

Here's another:
"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction."

December 25, 2009

Started reading it, have to listen to some
of the songs mentioned.



My boys received books. I will, of course,
read them.



All about Lebron's High School team.



Received this as a gift DVD. Zombies are hot !



Looking forward to this one. I am a big fan of the
original Star Trek and missed seeing this one.



Had this one in the collection but this Special Edition
had a lot of interesting additional features..