Brad

Apocalypse Now. Still a strange movie.

She went to her cardiologist yesterday and he was quite pleased with her progress; she’s ahead of where he expected her to be. Good news!

A flash sale from NYRB Classics. https://www.nyrb.com/collections/ides-of-march-flash-sale?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYRB%20Ides%20of%20March%20Flash%20Sale%202020&utm_content=NYRB%20Ides%20of%20March%20Flash%20Sale%202020+CID_4d0c1e0cab8148bf16d463680955e2f1&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=Browse%20the%20books

The only thing I was doing in that article (besides going to the grocery store) was going to the gym, which I’ve decided to curtail. We have a lot of walking paths around here so that’s what I will be doing.

I went out tonight to the local Shoprite to see if it was bad. It was. All the produce had been purchased. I was hoping to buy a couple of honeydews but had to settle for a couple of cantaloupes. People had their carts loaded to the gills. I purchased two big bags of rice last weekend from the Chinese food store, just because we were low, so we certainly have enough rice for awhile, come what may. I always complain to my wife that she buys too much of this or that. I ain’t complaining no more.

Your soul collection must be amazing. You’re not the Soul-pope for nothing.

Narcos Mexico 2. Well done. Machiavellian.

That goes double!

Creedence - Willie and the Poor Boys

In times like these, I want to avoid reading books like The Plague or seeing Contagion, which Wesley Morris in the New York Times recently discussed.

I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about it.

Spain’s football league has been suspended for two weeks and Real Madrid players are in quarantine.

Can other sports be far behind?

That’s a good one.

I think they governors have been doing this to make giving aid easier to those who need it. I’m trying to limit going out to places such as the grocery store and as soon as I get back in the car I use the sanitizer.

I can imagine. Stay well, as Chuck said...and be safe.

He has a new one out, Rebel Cinderella, about the socialist and feminist Rose Pastor Stokes. The Unlikely Life of a Socialist Activist Resonates a Century Later

There a couple of other Grateful Dead-related releases for RSD 2020: The Very Best of Jerry Garcia, https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/12201 Buffalo 5/9/77, https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/12391

It probably depends on the food, I suppose. I just cleaned out one of our refrigerators and saw some cheeses and sausage that were two years past the sell date. They actually looked fine but why take a chance. Out they went.

I just finished reading Lord of All the Dead. It’s one of the better books I have read about the Spanish Civil War. The title comes from The Odyssey where Achilles says he would rather be a slave of a penniless laborer than lord of all the dead. Next up is probably this:

Finished watching Altered Carbon.

I’m on my second listen. Excellence supreme.