At present, my favorite recipe is for Spanish Rice. You can read about it in this blog post from last year..
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Excitement?
It’s been a long time since I’ve been excited about anything. Probably because I don’t have the money to travel to the places I want to visit. Oh, well, it’s not bad to be on an even keel either.
Top 10
In no particular order:
- John Ford: The Searchers
- Buster Keaton: The General
- Howard Hawks: The Big Sleep
- Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo
- Carl Theodor Dreyer: Day of Wrath
- Jean-Luc Godard: Alphaville
- Jean-Pierre Melville: Touchez Pas au Grisbi
- Yasujiro Ozu: Late Spring
- Kenji Mizoguchi: Sansho the Bailiff
- Federico Fellini: La Strada
Writing
There’s little or no enjoyment in writing. If you want to write, you have to write—frequently. It’s a compulsion. On the plus side, being a writer makes me a better reader.
El Segundo Car Show
Purple 1950 Mercury
Martine and I used to frequent the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo, but were dismayed to find that it had closed its doors earlier this year. Luckily, the City of El Segundo puts on its own car show once a year and closes down its main commercial streets to make room.
Flyer for El Segundo Car Show
Unlike me, Martine is an aficionado of classical American cars, particularly of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. She had a number of conversations with the car owners, two of whom came up to me afterwards and spoke highly of her grasp of the subject. In all, we spent three and a half hours looking at hundreds of cars, most of which were models about which my little girl knew her stuff.
Martine Admiring Soapbox Derby Racer
At the show, we learned of several other upcoming car shows, including one at the Police Academy in Elysian Park sponsored by the LAPD. It looks like we’ll be going to that one, too.
Future
At my age (eighty), it is tempting the fates to have clearly defined goals, other than to live out the remainder of my days with peace and growing understanding.
Emergency
For what? An earthquake? A tidal wave? A volcanic eruption? An alien invasion? Hangnail?
Word
Irregardless
Peace
Above all, stay away from politics and avoid the news like the plague. It’s the arena where the worst shit happens.
Profession
As the son of a master machinist and the brother of a master building contractor, I have the utmost admiration for people who could create with their hands. I, alas, am a bookworm. The only useful thing I can do with my hands is cook (and even there my brother is better).
Tarnmoor 
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