June 21, 2020

Happy Father's Day ! It's hard getting Corona, They stopped production in April. I was able to get their Brown version. Production resumed June 1st.



Speaks for itself.



Yesterday was Summer Solstice. A few showed up.



Today, I went with a mix. Not bad. a little too much salt but quite good.



Lots of street art in Manhattan.



Watched the Battle of the Bulge. A hot mess and full of inaccuracies. A long movie, it even had an opening orchestra and intermission. The best parts: Telly Savalas as "Guffy", the Panzer youngsters singing Panzerlied (frightening in how youth can be indocrinated and Robert Shaw re-enacting Red Grant as a Nazi.






A visit to Times Square. A ghost town.

June 16, 2017

For my Minneapolis trip, my cousin lives near the Fitzgerald home in St. Paul.



Time to re-read The Great Gatsby. The echoes of the Midwest flow through the narrative:

"That's my middle-west--not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow. I am part of that, a little solemn with the feel of those long winters, a little complacent from growing up in the Carraway house in a city where dwellings are still called through decades by a family's name. I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life."



"In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year....Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it."
The Great Gatsby - Daisy
Chapter 1

On June 21st in NYC it will be 15 hours and 6 minutes of daylight.

June 20, 2016

What is the Strawberry Moon?

It is a full moon, which occurs in June, named by early Native American tribes. It is a full moon like any other, but marks the beginning of the strawberry season. The two events coincide once every 70 years.

June 21, 2015

Summer Solstice starts today at 12:38 p.m. Over 15 hours of sunlight for NYC.



Ties for Father's Day. Both will go well with some of my suits. The card from my boys said I was awesome AF.

June 20, 2012 - Summer Solstice

Summer Solstice. Picture from Bing.com.



Too true, The Zebras have not been fair. Miami has made their big shots though.

June 21, 2011

Today is the Summer Solstice: the annual moment at which the sun is the highest it ever gets in the sky – occurs today at 1:16 p.m. ET. This time also marks the beginning of astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere..



Stonehenge was crowded this morning.

June 21, 2010 - Summer Solstice

Summer solstice arrived in the northern hemisphere on Monday, June 21st at 7:28am (EDT). Sol + stice derives from a combination of Latin words meaning "sun" + "to stand still."



"In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year....Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it."
The Great Gatsby - Daisy
Chapter 1

June 21, 2009 - Summer Solstice - Happy Father's Day !

Father's day gifts were Godiva Chocolate Pretzels,
new Gym shorts, and a $25 Barnes & Noble Gift card.
Outliers and Conquest of Gaul were bought.
Big breakfast and Mimosas on tap, Beer to follow shortly.
NYCgo.com has a good Local Summer Beer Slide Show.



Stonehenge Solstice.


Credit: Ivan Ghezzi

The rise of the sun is seen at a 2,300-year-old structure
in Peru, between Tower 1 and Cerro Mucho Malo at the June
solstice, 2003,viewed from the western solar observatory.
The sunrise position at the solstice has shifted to the right
approximately 0.3° from the year 300 BC.

Our planet is tilted 23.5 degrees on its spin axis. On June 21
this year (some years it's June 20), the North Pole is pointing
toward the sun as much as is possible.


Photo by Joan Marcus

Playbill has some great production photos of Twelfth Night.
Above is Jay O. Sanders and Julie White. Today's
NYT has a nice article on the female leads. Interesting
that Shakespeare's wife was named Anne Hathaway. Hathaway
married Shakespeare in November 1582 while pregnant with the
couple's first child, to whom she gave birth six months later.
Hathaway was 26 years of age; Shakespeare was only eighteen.



Bo Diddley was referring to this song when he said
his last words. I was at a funeral once when this was
played. An outstanding Gospel piece.



In the Hall of the Mountain King: Peer Gynt Suite.
Both music pieces inspired by today's NYT crossword.



MIT has an online course with videos on GEB.