by Jenise » Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:35 pm
Oh gosh, thanks everyone! It was a quiet birthday. A cold caught almost two weeks ago morphed into a giant sinus infection causing us to cancel all plans and see doctors instead. I'm on a big gun antibiotic trying to get it all under control before we leave for Europe. My birthday dinner was a bowl of popcorn, a cucumber and tomato salad (when I don't feel good, meat is unappealing) and a bottle of Liquid Farms Chardonnay. Got some presents from the kitties. A book on the cuisine of Japan from Maestro, a book on vegetarian Vietnamese cooking from Marley, and a Global chef's knife from Jailbait with which I'm presumably supposed to execute the other two.
Then we settled in to watch some movies, a Ben Bradley double feature: last year's The Post followed by the 1972 All The President's Men. It was a seamless pairing: The Post ends with a shot of the Watergate Hotel at night shot from across the street, with figures and flashlights roaming around in the dark. Unexpectedly, ATPM opens with that same shot. A line from The Post contained in the Supreme Court ruling that sided with the NYT and WashPo over printing the Pentagon papers really resonated in light of today's White House rhetoric: "Freedom of the press is for the governed, not the governors."
My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov