Going out tonight (Sunday) to celebrate Kevin's passing the IB (International Baccalaureate) exams. These are the equivalent in his school of AP exams. Yay, Kevin!
Enjoyed FILM GEEK (Max) which so encapsulates the years when my kids were growing up in terms of movies. Finished THE BEAR, which never quite recaptured the magic of the first two years but still is better than most anything else right now. POKER FACE is fine but they are too wedded to their concept. Much like COLUMBO, I guess.
Went down to Michigan Central (Detroit's one-time train station) again-this time on a tour. Ford has made a gorgeous building out of what was a complete wreck a few years ago. Now they charge $20 a head for the tour so they will probably come out ahead over time because they have many tours every day. Unlike Grand Central, Union Station and Penn Station no trains will ever come through it again. There are trains that head to Chicago but not via this route.
How about you?
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Congrats to Kevin the Smart!
It's been a contemplative week her. Tuesday was my late sister's birthday. Linda was ind, generous, funny, and had the greatest laugh in the world. Although she has been gone for over twenty years, I still think of her often. Shortly before cancer took her, ny borther and his daughter Julie went to Florida to visit her. At the time Julie had just broken up with her ex-boyfriend, and the three of them were trying to come up with inventive ways to describe the s.o.b. Mu family is great but many of them just don't have a talent for vindictiveness, so they decided to call in an expert and telephoned me, who was thousand miles aways. I told them that Julie's ex was lower than the pus in a pimple on the penis of a protozoa in Patagonia. Linda's laughter came ringing through the phone. She died a few weeks later, but I am glad that my last memory of her was her laughter. The older I get, the more I realize how lucky I am to have come from such a wonderful family.
The Fourth was also a contemplative time for me. I grew up in a small New England town that was steeped with legend and lore. The man who claimed to have fored the first shot at Bunker Hill was from my home town, although I strongly suspect that alcohol was involved in bothe the claim and the shot. We were two towns over from Lexington and concord and in 1776, fourteen-year-old Benjamin Pierce, who lived in the east side of town, farthest from Lexington and Concord, supposed told his mother, "Mother, I hear the shots," and grabbed his rifle and went off into the fray. Piercce would become the father of future president Franklin Pierce. Sometimes it's hard to separate myth from reality, but at its core, we have a people who simply wanted a good life for their families coming together despite their many differences to forge a country -- imperfect, but always improving -- that became a shining model for the world. The challenges today are far greater than those then, but I have faith in the people and that, having seen 249, we will see 250 next year.
Also putting my in a comptemplative mood are the dreadful Texas floods. It is too soon to draw any conclusions, but the fact that the Administration has gutted NOAA may have had an effect on what happened. FEMA, of course, may not he able to respond as effectively now. I suspect there will be plenty of blame to be spread aroun. But Trump is sending Kristi Noem to Tezas. so we can at least expect some dogs will be shot. Ptah!
I statred Season Two of THE GOOD SHIP MURDER, an abyssmally bad show that seems to exist merely as an ego-boost for its star, X-FACTOR winner Shayne Ward, who plays an ex-policeman turned lounge singer on a cruise ship. The acting is terrible, the plots are simplistic, and I rrally don't like Ward's singing, so why am I warching this? Also started watching IRONHEART, the new Marvel television series; it seems more promising than the first episode led me to believe.
Reading. I read two early novels by James Lee Burke -- TO THE BRIGHT AND SHINGING SUN (my FFB) and HALF OF PARADISE. This completes my reading of all of his books except the latest Holland Family novel released last month. I also read David Dodge's THE LAST MATCH, the story of a rogue and coin man and his ongoing relationship with the rich, beautifulk and imperious Hon. Regina Forbes-Jones. JOHN CONSTANTINE, HELLBLAZER: DEAD IN AMERICA was an eleven-issue limited series by Simon Spurrier and Adam Campbell. The graphic novel has a dead John Constantine tasked by Neil Gaiman's Dream (Morpheus) ro retreive a stolen bag of Dream Du; constnative is aided in the quest by Swamp Thing. An ambitious outing fstally marred by confusing writing, poor artwork, and dismal coloring -- a book that should have taken me few hours to read took almost three days.
Have a great week, Patti!
No matter how hard I try, typos seem to appear almost magically. I'm going to be like Denny Crane and blame it on mad cow, rather than senility.
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