Shadow of a Doubtful Foreign Correspondent
When Mary's mom was in town this past weekend, we watched two old Hitchcock films: Shadow of a Doubt and Foreign Correspondent. I'd never seen either. Both of these were made well before Hitchcock really hit the height of his talents, but each have all the same undercurrents of his future films. Shadow of a Doubt was just plain creepy. A character driven piece, it was a "psychological thriller" (or, as much of a thriller as a film can be from 1943). There are elements of future films–the sexual creepiness of Vertigo, the woman under cover, in danger, and with Read more…
What a dinner!
So when a friend calls you up and says, “Would you be interested in going to a sake night at Two Koi? Oh and it’s already paid for!” here’s my advice: say yes!! Our friend Aaron called me just two hours before the 7-course 7 sake meal started and asked if we wanted to take his place for reservations for 2 that he couldn’t use. It turned out to be an incredible dinner, lasting 4 hours. I learned so much about sake. 3 sake masters from Japan were on hand to share their sakes. And the pairings! What wonderful cuisine. Read more…
Remaking the bills
Here's an interesting collection of some proposals to remake the bills. My favorite is the "cultural" figures. Though Lady Liberty looks pretty great too.
Less Reader, more Twitter
I’ve noticed that I spend less and less time in Google Reader. I made sure to hit some of my favorite feeds and political bloggers, the comics that come in via RSS, a couple tech blogs, and whichever of my friends has posted something recently. But generally I’m most of my inbound interesting links from Twitter these days. Reader has been pretty great for archiving though. I often search for a phrase or a name and find out what people I follow have written about it. It makes for a pretty powerful “personal library.” Anyone else find they’re seeing more Read more…