~Tuesday~ What started as a conversation back in the first week of February of this year, I received a recommendation to watch two movies: Picnic and Bus Stop. I watched Picnic a week after that, and I enumerated my thoughts and observations about it in my February 8 blog entry. Tonight, Bob and I watched … Read more
~Saturday~ My friend Bob and I had the pleasure of seeing this original adaptation of interviews with former slaves from North Carolina. The program featured excerpts from The Slave Narrative Project1 in the late 1930’s, and was actually “staged” on Horton Grove Plantation—the plantation holdings of the Bennehan-Cameron families were among the largest in pre-Civil War … Read more
~Friday~ Back in Wednesday’s entry, I mentioned I’d finished the first book in the 27 Must Have Queer Summer Reads, We the Animals, and that I’d share my thoughts on it in a later post. Well this is it. So, this is the introduction to the book in Wikipedia: We the Animals is the debut … Read more
~Thursday~ Synopsis: Is all fair in love—even murder? Self-absorbed Arlene is married to blundering car salesman Paul, who adores her. Arlene’s lover Mitchell, a dentist who fancies himself an irresistible ladies’ man, joins her to plot the murder of her husband. But wait—a betrayal shifts the alliances and the intended victim. A rambunctious suspense comedy … Read more
~Wednesday~ Several weeks ago now, I came across 27 Must Have Queer Summer Reads, undoubtedly pointed to on the feed of one of my Facebook friends or Twitter friends. Now, I know people who have committed to read lists of books, the most impressive by far, being my friend Glenn Hunt, who has this note in … Read more
~Monday~ As I would recommend you do if you don’t already, I have a Google Alert set up on my name—both on John Martin and nematome—and once a week I get an email report from Google telling me how and where I’m being talked about on the web. According to this week’s report, at any … Read more
~Friday~ Jen and I participated in Triangle Restaurant Week, having dinner at Rey’s in Cary. I arrived at her house at 6:00, where I said hello to Nala, and had one bourbon and diet before we headed out for our 6:30 reservation. Triangle Restaurant Week is described as follows: Triangle Restaurant Week (TRW) is a … Read more
~Friday~ I received my annual appraisal today, which didn’t contain any surprises, which means the process is working. Any surprises should have come in my interim appraisal back in December, in order to give me time to address any problem areas. I provide a “Weekly Highlight Report” to my boss in which I list the … Read more
~Thursday~ My friend Bob bought me a ticket to join him to see LeAnn Rimes, who performed tonight with the North Carolina Symphony in the Maymandi Concert Hall at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts. I cried during five of her songs, and this blog entry is about trying to get my head … Read more
The Iron, 78, passed “Gone” on Sunday, May 26, 2013 after passing “Go” for the last time on February 6, 2013 as a result of a forced retirement after a long and lustrous career with Parker Brothers. Making a smooth entrance onto a board already monopolized by a number of other tokens, Flatiron, as he … Read more