one thing today

           using my knife sharpening stone and rivaling Cy Tombly

  watched  Dog Day Afternoon  last night  ... sizzlin'summer in the city '75 ... Attica ... al pacino is at his short guy fireplug self mid 70s American majesty  ... busting open a flower box and almost falling down trying to manage a skinny rifle. carol kane is one of the tellers. her husband calls her and wants to know about his dinner, when she's comin' home and kane says to al ... "he wants to know when you're gonna be finished " ... btw all the bank workers know al will not harm them ... and Pacino does one of his priceless turkish taffy motion mugs and says to her ... "girlie, please." so smart  & priceless.  they just don't make 'em that tight and right anymore -------------------------- stranger's quote of the day  -  It always moves me when I see a woman doin' push ups 

  ... for Olympic athletes is nothing new, but when the supply runs out  before the first week of the Games, it is bound to make headlines. S upplies in the Olympic Villages were “temporarily depleted due to higher-than-anticipated demand.  Additional supplies are being delivered and will be distributed across all villages. They will be continuously replenished until the end of the Games to ensure continued availability.”  The complimentary condoms distributed inside the Olympic Village in Cortina were gone in three days. 10,000 were made available. There are 2,871 athletes in Italy for the Winter Games. At the Paris Olympics there were a little more than 10,500 athletes competing. Organizers handed out approximately 300,000 condoms.  “Yes, we provide free condoms to athletes in the Olympic village . If this seems strange to some, they’re unaware of the established Olympic practice. It began in Seoul 1988 to raise awareness among athletes and young people about ...

                                                                                                       couples do Valentines Day                                         singles celebrate                                                      Palm Sunday              

  I n   Quentin Django Unchained , the main character Django, a freed slave, chooses to wear an outfit similar to that worn by Gainsborough's subject in   The Blue Boy . In a 2001 episode of  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire  the exact contents of the painting was the subject of a $500,000 question. It inspired the 1980s  Garbage Pail Kids  "Blue Boy George" (fifth series). In 1985, the picture was referenced in the song  Art is for Your Heart  on the  Muppet Babies  episode "The Muppet Museum of Art", with  Gonzo  wondering about the painting and  Kermit  stating the subject's possible preference for green clothing. The painting is seen in the movie  Die Another Day  (2002), where it hangs in a London fencing club, and is slashed by Gustav Graves while dueling with James Bond. The painting is also seen in the movie  Batman  (1989) as hanging in Gotham museum, and again in the  Joker  ...

I remember nights like other lives, coming off a dance floor in a sweat and then the shock of cool dark. I’ve never loved New York more than in the dark, all those electric hearts beating, buildings with lit-up rooms and the rest like knocked-out teeth.  New York was once the city that never sleeps. Now restaurants drop their grates well before midnight. The law still says that bars can let alcohol flow until 4 a.m., but they don’t, whether to be good neighbors or because their patrons are just too tired. Twenty-four-hour coffee shops and diners are dying. The lights are on but everybody’s home, in bed. Some of our minds bloom only after sundown, like those flowers that hold themselves in until the day plants close their petals.