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[calimac]

1. A new grocery market has opened in our neighborhood, a branch of one from San Jose. I ventured over there today to check it out. Très yuppie. I wonder if it will last. It does carry a few things I usually have to go much further to find - my preferred brand of whole-wheat pasta, my favorite kind of polenta. I didn't need to do shopping today, but I bought a few items for too much money.

2. Speaking of food, does anyone know what to do with this? I bought a couple jars on impulse at the yuppie grocery in Palo Alto that was closing up shop. (According to employees, it had been doing fine, but the company was from another state and, like the Russians in Alaska, felt overextended.) Apparently it's to be used as a relish substitute, in dips, or in tuna salad, but we never eat any of those things.

3. Started watching the dramatization of Wolf Hall. Got bored and quit. Is Masterpiece Theatre just not what it used to be, or is it me?

4. Stopped watching John Oliver. He's discussing serious topics, but he's supposed to be funny, so he interrupts himself every 25 seconds to make a lame joke on an irrelevant subject. It's just too irritating.

5. I'm going to be away two of the four weekends in June, and otherwise occupied at least one day in the third, so my chances of getting to the Art Widner memorial to be held that month do not look good.

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I'm gone the last two weeks of June. I was hoping it might be held before then, but I don't have a source of information on that unless Alan has heard more.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

If it's not worth querying Alan about specifically by e-mail (he probably knows no more at this point), I will be seeing him this weekend and can raise the question in conversation.

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

Re Wolf Hapl, have you read the movels? I have, and i believe the adaptation would be nearly incomprehensible and posdibly boring if one has not.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the novels. I didn't have any trouble comprehending the storyline - knowing the actual history helped - it was just boringly told.

[irontongue.livejournal.com]

I am not bored by the story-telling, so perhaps having read the books helps.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Or liking that kind of story, which is probably the bulk of it.

Forty years ago, I used to like the kind of historical dramatization they put on on Masterpiece Theatre (remember The Six Wives of Henry VIII?), but I have never generally found historical novels to be appealing, no matter how interested I am in the period.