by Sam Juliano
Wishing all our Jewish friends a Happy Passover and hoping those celebrating Easter had a happy and soulful Sunday. Lucille and I attended the 10:30 mass at Our Lady of Grace Church in Fairview.
After two years of cancellations brought on by COVID concerns, my school system will again running the 8th grade Washington trip from May 4th to the 6th. I will again be attending as a chaperone, and am wondering how many of the usual landmarks will be open and will be permitting tourists. In any case, the outdoor memorials are always fair game.
I would have liked to write more during the present extended break, but I found myself diverted and needed to spend some time obtaining facts from some of those living people who are being represented in the narrative. Still I made some modest progress and will resume in the coming days.
Many thanks to all who have submitted a ballot for the French Film Polling. About 55 ballots have been submitted, and the project will run until early May.
Wishing everyone a wonderful week!
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Happy Easter to you and your family, Sammy! Hope y’all had a beautiful day. The bluebonnets and other wildflowers are ablaze here in Texas, as is the sun… 94 at our house this week. Spring lasted about 2 days 😉
Hello my great friend and Lone Star namesake! Trust you and your own family had a great Easter!! Wow, 94? That is a bit too torrid for my tastes, but the flowers blossoming is real nice! I know you are used to the high numbers, and as the years go by they are inching higher sad to say. The best always!
Happy Easter, Sam. We didn’t celebrate Passover this year, but we did watch “Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream,” about the Streit’s factory on NYC’s Lower East Side (very interesting). I’ve been doing a tremendous amount of birding since retiring, and Saturday was a banner day as spring migration begins, perhaps capped with a siting of a lone sandhill crane in a cornfield fragment. Shane and I will be in San Francisco for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival – the first time at that festival for both of us. Should be good. I hope your trip to D.C. allows you to do everything you really want to.
Marilyn, in behalf of Lucille and the rest of the gang, many thanks for the Easter wishes! That documentary you saw sound quite interesting, and of course for us has a particular relevance, focusing as it does on a region in our midst. “Birding” is for sure a rewarding hobby, and I must say I envy you on that. We have a large cage where eight parakeets reside, and still own a nearly 40-year-old amazon parrot, which we had inherited from my late brother. I am assuming then, that you take many photos of your observations, and yes this has to be the most fulfilling time of the year for it. Now the SF silent film festival is a fabulous annual event. I have never even been close to attending, but I follow their schedules and have even purchased some DVDs like “The Peach Girl.” I’d love to hear about it from you and am wishing you and Shane an awesome trip! Thanks too on your nice words about the coming, albeit brief D.C.school trip! Have a great week!
RIP crushworthy Robert Morse. I had the great good fortune to see him on Broadway in “Tru.” He was brilliant, of course. Have a great weekend everyone.
Yes indeed Mark. A theater icon, and I do envy you for having seen him in “Tru” my friend. Trust you too are enjoying the weekend.
Hey, is that Madison Cawthorn auditioning for the role of Martin in the imminent redo of Visconti’s Götterdämmerung?
(And get off the Wayback machine, Lady Peabody. 2014 was only eight years ago.)
Hahahahahahaha Mark! It is between him and Taylor Greene as the biggest cretin in American politics, methinks And yes, eight years indeed on your other contention.