I finished all of my magazines pretty early this month. The only article that really stood out, this month, is one of the first ones that I read. It was a little profile piece on Usain Bolt. It was awe inspiring and depressing, all at once. Apparently Bolt doesn’t really even try as hard as he can. He is just that good.
As a result burning through the mags so quickly, I had to resort to some heavier literature during the commute. Reagan’s parents (knowing how I love historical literature) gave me a copy of Jon Mecham’s “American Lion.” For Christmas. I started into it, this week. So far, I have really enjoyed it.
Here come the other useless tidbits:
- Reagan’s cousin is going to be in town this weekend. We will be attending the first baseball game of the season with him, this Friday night.
- Since we are going to baseball, we will be missing the NYC premier of Banksy’s movie (we will probably catch it Saturday night, if you wanna come). If you are a fan, and you are in NYC, you should check it out, Friday. There was all kinds of hooplah at the LA premier. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are similar antics planned for Friday night.
- Running has been going ok. I did a 26:26 4mi race last Sunday, then took the last 2 days off to give my knees/blisters a break. I’ll be back on it, later tonight.
- It is allergy season. I have always had really bad allergies, since I was a little kid. Occasionally so bad that I found myself in the insta-care waiting for an adrenaline shot, with my eyes swollen shut. I moved to Brazil for two years, came back and my allergies have practically been gone ever since. It is weird to not be the one sneezing my face off, anymore.
- I did some spring cleaning last night, in my home office (I still have a long way to go). I kicked up enough dust that, even w/o allergies, I went to bed with a tickle in the back of my throat. Incidentally, I carried out 4 trash bags of old law school outlines and shredded docs.
- Piper seems to be in great spirits, these days. I was cracking up at the photos that Reagan took during her visit, yesterday.
- Speaking of photos, I launched a Facebook photo page, today. If you read this blog, then you have probably already seen all of the content on there.
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2 responses to “Current Subway Read, and other useless tidbits”
For some reason, this post reminded me of two things I’ve been meaning to tell you that are completely unrelated, except that you mention a biography and movie in your post.
1. My BFF Julie Merten (Reagan knows her well)’s sister Jennilyn Merten has a movie in Tribeca this year. It’s on the Lost Boys (from the Polygamy communes). Jenni is a U of U graduate in Western Studies. (Possibly you know her? She’s about your age so would have been there at the same time as you.) Anyway, maybe you and Reagan will want to check it out if you can. If you do, tell Reagan to keep an eye out for Julie, who is coming in from Texas for it. http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/sons_of_perdition-film30655.html
2. Have you ever read any of Chernow’s books? He writes narrative biographies of prominant banking figures, incl. a fabulous Alexander Hamilton biography, a fascinating history of the Warbergs (German Jewish bankers who also were prominant on first Federal Reserve and on British and Russian banks, thereby feeding the Hitler Jewish Bank conspiracy), and House of Morgan. All three books are very good reads for a Wall Street lawyer with a long commute.
@Kelvis: I haven’t read anything by Chernow. Awesome, Kel. Thanks for both of the suggestions.