April 2, 2017

The buds are out, the Yankees open in Tampa, the Mets open tomorrow in NYC. It is Spring !



"I will look upon death or upon a comedy with the same expression of countenance." Willie Nelson quoting Seneca on Sunday morning.



David Huddleston in The Big Lebowski: “Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate…?”



Ecclesiastes 1:4 in The Bible: "One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth abides forever."

December 5, 2010

Today is Repeal Day. Celebrating the end of Prohibition on December 5, 1933. To honor the day, Celebration Ale.



Read the Playboy Interview of Frank Sinatra from 1963. Lots of Cold War talk and the following which is prescient:

"I'm betting that within the next decade the Russians will be on the credit- card kick just as we are. They're going to want color TV, their wives are going to want electrified kitchens, their kids are going to want hot rods. Even Russian girls are getting hip; I've seen photos of them at Russian beach resorts, and it looks just like the Riviera. They're thinning down, and I see they're going the bikini route. When GUM department store in Moscow starts selling bikinis, we've got a fighting chance, because that means the girls are interested in being girls and the boys are going to stop thinking about communes and begin thinking connubially. I've always had a theory that whenever guys and gals start swinging, they begin to lose interest in conquering the world. They just want a comfortable pad and stereo and wheels, and their thoughts turn to the good things of life -- not to war. They loosen up, they live and they're more apt to let live. Dig?"

I had a friend who was a big Sinatra fan and sometimes we listened to Saturday Night with Sinatra on the Radio. Made me appreciate the full range of his work. Sinatra ,like Bing Crosby, had phrasing down pat and still delivered the emotion.



Finally got around to viewing The Big Lebowski. Hilarious !

The Big Lebowski: What makes a man, Mr. Lebowski?
The Dude: Dude.
The Big Lebowski: Huh?
The Dude: Uhh... I don't know sir.
The Big Lebowski: Is it being prepared to do the right thing, whatever the cost? Isn't that what makes a man?
The Dude: Hmmm... Sure, that and a pair of testicles.

January 19, 2010

As predicted, Davros is history. Wild show last night.
Fire-ax to chest, wrist cut with saw and we are just getting
started. Also, an incredible beat-down of Jack Bauer by a P.O.
played by Domenick Lombardozzi,who was previously in
The Wire as Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk.



The NYT in late December had an article about
Academic Studies of The Dude. Since I never saw it, and I
like Bridges ,Goodman and Coen Brothers fims, I decided
to give it a try.



Received this as a Birthday present, the 3 disc collection
includes the two other Falcon films: Satan Met A Lady with
Bette Davis and the 1931 Maltese Falcon starring Ricardo
Cortez as Sam Spade and Bebe Daniels as Ruth Wonderly.



Currently on TWC Free Movies on Demand from
Turner Classic Movies. A John Sturges classic.
Only today learned that the screenplay was co-written
by James Clavell who was himself a prisoner of war in
Changi prison in Singapore.