Elephante Blanche by Bijou O’Keefe

Tag: writing

  • Memorial for Dick

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    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…

  • Horse pills

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    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…

  • Once again

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    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…

  • Cooking

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    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…

  • And along comes Dodi

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    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.…

  • Change of Cast

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    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…

  • John Lithgow

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    I started watching “The Crown” on Netflix. I thought it might be another rehash of the Diana story. But no. It takes on the history of the British royal family in the 1930s and 40s, roughly. But what stood out was how John Lithgow has really cornered the Winston Churchill character. Churchill has always stood…

  • Thank you notes

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    I have a whole lot of people to thank. So, I got some thank you notes. I think receiving a card in the mail is more personal than emailing them. But, I’m old fashioned. Next I’d like to tell Anthony Robert, who reads my blog, that his writing is very good. Keep at it as…

  • Movie sense

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    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…

  • Endurance

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    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…