Monthly Archives: March 2021

and James Cagney in one of his best-ever roles as an underground rebel/university professor. Featuring Glynis Johns, Cecil Cusack, Richard Harris, and many other English character actors.

The Luck of the Irish (on DVD, shown above) A hilarious comedy with Tyrone Power in one of his best roles, playing a writer who discovers a leprechaun in Ireland, who later comes back to New York with the leprechaun … Continue reading →

Green crème de menthe pie! A St. Pat’s wonder! Second-best: Green crème de menthe parfait (creme de menthe over vanilla or oreo ice cream)! Simply decadent.

Chopin’s Piano Sonata no. 3 in B minor op. 58. 4 mood-full movements played by Maurizio Pollini. Which I listened to after Sunday lunch. Great stuff!

There is a cast of thousands that influence/d one and made us what we are today as individuals. Parents. Siblings. Grandparents. Aunts and uncles. Cousins. Guardians. Have a long think about that one. The kids we grew up with and … Continue reading →

What a person reads is what s/he is. Sensibility, ideas, beliefs, career. To say nothing of depth of empathy, sympathy, understandings about human nature and life, and appreciations of characters/others.

Leave something behind, he said. Tracks, traces, or vapor trails, better brief than not. The idea of marking spring somehow. Kilroy and all that. The traffic hum and snow melting in the yard. At long last coming up for air. … Continue reading →

the sexism and misogyny of an olde boys’ club? Wonder what announcer Dottie Pepper has to say about that.