Tag: books
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Memorial for Dick
This was an off-hand memorial put together by his friends from his record store. The location was on Market Street at a bar I’d never been to. It was scheduled for 6 pm. The cab and I arrived way too early. Isaac, the driver asked why I was going there? I told him about the…
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Horse pills
That’s what I call two pills that are one, a multi-vitamin and two, oyster shell calcium that I take twice a day along with the other supplements. I don’t understand why they have to be so big. My former multi-vitamin was about 1/10th the size of a finger nail. This is a pharma mystery. In…
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Once again
Myra came to the rescue. My screen here had frozen and I couldn’t get it out of Zoom. That’s a relief. Ready for tomorrow’s sister zoom and now I know how to unfreeze it. Whew! Also, I got things straightened out with Netflix, which was too boring to go into detail about. Then I sat…
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Cooking
I have to remind myself not to bother making a recipe I see in a cooking magazine. Lots of work for an eggplant. It came out pretty well, but it took me close to four hours to make. More left overs. What was fun was watching a special on Dick Van Dyke. He is 100…
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And along comes Dodi
OK, I’m done wth watching the Crown. Princess gets her divorce from Prince on her conditions, which sets her up for life. She is, nevertheless, sad and lonely. They skip over the part where she goes to Bosnia to remove land mines. A Ballet lover, Princess meets Al Fayed, Sr. At the ballet, Swan Lake.…
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Change of Cast
These series draw you in and you find yourself watching more than however much time you have allotted for TV viewing. That is their job. It’s up to me to look at the clock and say ‘enough’. I’ve been caught up with viewing ‘The Crown’. Most of the story line, allowing for Artistic license, is…
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Movie sense
Production people who are responsible for impossible or unlikely scenes to work, must employ ‘tricks’. One movie I was watching, whose name was something like “Falling for Christmas”, Was about an heiress who goes skiing, goes over a cliff, bumps her head and has amnesia. She doesn’t know her name and a doctor tells her…
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Endurance
My dance partner, Dick Vivian, died. I just found out. A D.J. Devoted an hour on KALW to his achievements and importance, especially to musicians. It’s true. Dick’s record store on Haight was a source of more than 45’s. Dick knew everything about music from the 50’s and 60’s. There was a brief mention of…
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27 Nights – anti agist film
I had a day today that made me question if not my sanity, then why are public institutions so cumbersome? So, I was ready to relax with a dandy salad, a cup of tea and this film on Netflix, “27 Nights”. Set in Argentina, an 83 year old wealthy woman is incarcerated in a mental…
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Cezanne et moi
I’ll make a deal with my iPad. I’ll figure out how to use accents over vowels if the iPad stops messing with my spelling. For example, I just wrote peut (French for first person ‘could’) and my computer turned it into Pete. So, Cezanne doesn’t have an accent over the first ‘e’. You know who…
