One of the neighborhood wine and spirit stores is featuring Lillet in the window. The bottle and display are visually attractive, and so I decided to sample this book because of the cover. And what a lovely find it is. Lillet is an aperitif wine from Bordeaux, created in 1887 by the Brothers Lillet. It was part of a whole fruit-and-herbed flavored quinine-based cocktail wines movement. The original,...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Remembering to Remember
I admire the men and women who serve in our Armed Forces. I can only pray and vote to give them leaders who are worthy of the enormous responsibility of their blood.And I can remember those who died in service to this country with some thoughts beyond the weekend barbecue.We say the horror of war. The daily killing machine that is Iraq is a fact completely beyond those feeble words. So I turn to the...
Friday, May 25, 2007
It Was Thirty Years Ago Today . . . .
Here's a salute to all you impassioned fans of Star Wars. I'm not one of you, but I like listening to you. Fans of all degree must go to Edward Copeland's anniversary Star Wars Blog-a-Thon. It is an impressive, interesting collection of essays from that galaxy.I have a tiny contribution to the collective knowledge. I was just watching BBC International, and the newsreader was reporting on the anniversary...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Sopranos Watch: The Wild Ducks at Coole
All the attention to the end of The Sopranos may seem extreme, or ridiculous, or both. But I like to think of it as an updating of the crowds who waited on the dock in Victorian New York to get the next installment of The Old Curiosity Shop. I bet our Victorian antecedents merrily explicated plot points and compared intricate ending scenarios while waiting for the bowlines to be secured and the...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Tony Lays Waste
Three more Sopranos episodes left. There is amazing commentary from Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall, and their cadre of posters. The water looks so fine and interesting, I’m jumping into the exegesis pool myself for the end of this historic, unsettling television creation. *****It must be fun to be David Chase, and get to make very skilled wordplay that crosses aural to visual and back again....
Monday, May 14, 2007
Coke It Is
The Monday morning routine is like any other day, except moreso, because it’s Monday. I cannot eat or drink before I get on the subway, so part of the routine is to pick up a muffin and a can of Diet Coke on the way in to work.Yes, Diet Coke for breakfast. I love the smell of coffee, but I have a strange reaction to it: it makes me deeply thirsty in an uncomfortable way. But Coke—it sparkles and...
Friday, May 11, 2007
Daydreaming of the Bond Men
For Quantum of Solace review, go here.My history with the Bond men is simple: there was Sean Connery, and then it just didn’t matter (with a warm nod to George Lazenby). Roger Moore embodied the seventies in the worst way, Timothy Dalton just didn’t interest me, Pierce Brosnan always looked uncomfortable —-unlike his turn as Thomas Crown, which is a joy to watch.I have finally caught up with the...
Monday, May 7, 2007
Wagner Visible
The sun is low is the sky, but still bright. I make my way through clumps of happy tourists and high schools kids looking for trouble, pass under the watchful eye of the media conglomerate AOL/Time Warner, cross the traffic of a congested city that crawls and honks with frustration. But it all falls away when you emerge onto the campus that is Lincoln Center, and enter a concert hall, where for...
Saturday, May 5, 2007
133rd Derby Day
The three-year-olds are at it again. In honor of the Queen and Prince Philip's attendance, let's say "darby" today. Post time is 6:04 p.m. Post positions are here. And Tim Lavin of the Atlantic is blogging the day here. They say the field is wide open. My imaginary money is on Cowtown Cat, for very...
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
The Wagner of My Year
“In 2006 and 2007, Pluto will align with the Galactic Center three times, ushering in an unprecedented period of cosmic awareness and healing. Pluto’s conjunction with the Galactic Center occurs only once every 248 years. How each of us experiences this transit will depend on our consciousness.” From StarPriestess.comWhich is all by way of offering some explanation for this being the year I take...
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