Showing posts with label Veterans Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Veterans Day. Show all posts

Saturday, November 11, 2017

November 11, 2017



Next year is the 100th Anniversary of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect.



My trip to the Whitney museum was fine until I was told that George Bellows' Dempsey and Firpo was no longer on display.



Unusual settings.



Lots of Hopper including : A Woman in the Sun.



Jimmie Durham's exhibition was thought provoking.



Criterion collection was 60% off at Barnes and Noble. Bought The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. is a terrific Ashe.



Richard Burton gives an understated yet powerful performance as Alec Leamas.




Thanksgiving on the way, cranberries abound.

Friday, November 10, 2017

November 10, 2017



Today is Veterans Day observed. Lots of Vets in my family.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

November 11, 2015



Veteran's Day.



William Howard Taft was a fan of waterboarding. The "so called water cure," he admitted, was used "on some occasions to extract information."

Thursday, November 11, 2010

November 11, 2010 - Veterans Day



The United States government has declared that the attributive (no apostrophe) rather than the possessive case is the official spelling.



Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda will be released on November 16th. On the to-read list.



Irish Dry Stout 3.70% ABV . This is a real good brew. I prefer a little more kick, but the flavors and freshness make this a winner. Made by Victory Brewing Company in Pennsylvania.



Blue Point Toxic Sludge :Black IPA / Cascadian Dark Ale | 7.00% ABV.

Blue Point will donate 100% of net proceeds from Toxic Sludge to Delaware-based Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research to fund their Spreading Our Wings Campaign and long term efforts to build a Wildlife Response Annex.

I toast the Blue Point Brewery for such a great idea. Ironic, that the initials for the Brewery = BP.



Ernest Hemingway, The Art of Fiction No. 21, The Paris Review.
Interviewed by George Plimpton
INTERVIEWER
Well, perhaps it would be better put this way: Graham Greene said that a ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system. You yourself have said, I believe, that great writing comes out of a sense of injustice. Do you consider it important that a novelist be dominated in this way—by some such compelling sense?
HEMINGWAY
Mr. Greene has a facility for making statements that I do not possess. It would be impossible for me to make generalizations about a shelf of novels or a wisp of snipe or a gaggle of geese. I’ll try a generalization though. A writer without a sense of justice and of injustice would be better off editing the yearbook of a school for exceptional children than writing novels. Another generalization. You see; they are not so difficult when they are sufficiently obvious. The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.