The book I’m reading now is taking a while, so what shall I say to you tonight? Went out for a walk this morning and exchanged a few words with a neighbor I barely know. That counts as a major social event these days. Alert the Society columnists!
Went out for lunch (the daily deal at Red Lobster), and then stopped on the way home to do my civic duty and get my flu shot.
Consumer report: I preferred the nanorobots they included in last year’s vaccine. Those gave me dreams of the University of Timbuktu, and produced a compulsion to vote for the Green Party, though it was an election off-year. So far this year’s nanorobots have only turned my toenails teal, and I think I detect the beginnings of a vestigial tail, for which I can think of no good practical use.
I streamed an old movie, “In a Lonely Place,” with Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. It’s about a screenwriter with homicidal inclinations, who may or may not be preparing to kill his fiancée at the end. I can’t say that it matches my own experience in the film industry, but my participation has been limited so far. Once I start doing power lunches with producers, I may see more action.
I owe my youngest daughter a movie date to watch Casablanca… she has not seen it yet. Last one I introduced her to was 3 Days of the Condor. But thanks for the reminder.
My youngest daughter recently mentioned she had never seen Casablanca. It used to be an annual tradition in our house. I’m slowly introducing her to the classics by recently viewing The Matrix and Men In Black. Casablanca will have to be next on the list.
How nice to be able to discover it for the first time.
It’s been many years since we’ve had broadcast TV in our house. We’ve used the twenty bucks a month we would otherwise have spent on cable to buy DVD’s. Of course the most minutes per dollar are old TV shows so we’ve corrupted out children with all TV shows of our youth such as Star Trek, McGyver, A-Team, Brady Bunch, and Partridge Family, along with old British TV like Good Neighbors, To The Manor Born, Rumpole of the Bailey, Wooster and Jeeves, All Creatures Great and Small, Poirot, and others.