Recently I read an amazing article in the February issue of the Simithsonian magazine about the Monuments Men – soldiers assigned to reclaim the treasures stolen by the Reich during WWII. “Ettlinger’s Nuremberg assignment evaporated without explanation, and he was plunged into a thoroughly unexpected sort of war, waged deep in Germany’s salt mines, castles, [...]
I’ve been poring over copies of a great survival horror comic ‘The Walking Dead‘ over the last month or so. Amazing stuff — it’s taken a bit to get the collected copies – I’m on number 7 out of 8 (each collects six or so of the original comics). Can’t wait to read the last volume. It’s a [...]
At Target this weekend (I guess everyweekend), my daughter and I went by the toys to see what was new. Apparently we’d missed the best new Legos. There are now some excellent looking Indiana Jones sets. There was a shelf display with several of the kits set up including the ‘LEGO Indiana Jones Temple Escape‘ – yup [...]
Ok – not the old song, but while randomly viewing a bit of TV in the down time this weekend, caught a bit of Texas Hold’em tournament on the tube. While most of it was what you would expect, a moment of the inane commentary gave me pause. The commentator called out that: ‘…sometimes a good fold [...]
Ah – was able to have some great soft serve ice cream this weekend – brings me back to my childhood. And while while my daughter can’t wait for the new self-serve multicolor sprinkle machine – I think my favorite part of Carvel are the cakes. Gotta have the “Fudgie the Whale” cake - truly makes the occasion [...]
Well I was catching up on my fine cinema viewing… really catching up — not so much on the fine part. Caught ‘Saw II‘ on HD — disturbing as usual, but a line in the final moments caught my ear – “What is the cure for Cancer, Eric? The cure for death itself. The answer [...]