minutiae

bear_left, Eric and Eric and I - went to see Jonathan Demme's A MAN FROM PLAINS last evening. I love documentary film-making as an art form. It's such a different movie watching experience. You really felt like you'd spent some time with Jimmy Carter - but the dissapointing side of the film is that it repeats itself a lot - as it follows Carter through the controversy around his book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid." He spends time carefully answering rebuffs - but - we hear the same answers six or seven times in a two hour film. The group consensus was that Demme probably had hundreds of hours of film - and got fixated rather than presenting a more balanced film. It was lusciously filmed - and is a great show - but it's a little limited in scope.

The next Eric³ outing with Bob? SF Symphony on the 23rd of November (Haydn, Barber and Elgar)

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Skipped the gym this morning to have a lovely conversation over morning coffee with bear_left - - - it was really fun having him around in real time. He's at the house hangin' with the Kateydog before heading East Bay for his conference over the weekend.

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I have to cancel my trip to New Orleans for Thanksgiving. The airlines let me cancel thank god (the seat was bought with airmiles so I wasn't sure it was cancelleable). Work decided that I'm a 'must-have' employee for the day before thanksgiving and the Monday after (even though we're closed the Friday between TurkeyDay and the weekend). AND - my current pocketbook 'situation' around paying Kateydog's medical bills makes it less attractive - who wants to go on a vacation - even if it's a working one - with no greenbacks in their wallet... certainly not me. so I'll be stayin' home for Turkey Day.