Here's a pop quiz......
Seeing the movie doesn't count, but even if you read the book years ago it does count! Amazingly enough, I got 25 in this one, and I don't read books that much any more.....
The BBC Believes You Only Read 6 of These Books...
The BBC believes that most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books below. How many have you read?
(Tip: The average Goodreads member has read 23 out of 100 books on this list)
p.s: BBC didn't make a declaration. The list is probably based on the average. Also, Narnia and Shakespeare are on the list twice but, they can be a freebie if you prefer :)
(Tip: The average Goodreads member has read 23 out of 100 books on this list)
Eating out
Some good foodie spots in Orlando.......yes five of them are in the theme park area, but there are Winter Park and College Park locations too including our favourite the Ravenous Pig.......from USA Today........
From celebrity chef outposts in the theme park corridor to downtown Orlando hideaways that make you feel like you've been transplanted to Manhattan, here are the city's best restaurants:
1. Luma on Park: Smack dab on the main drag through tony Winter Park (an Orlando suburb), this new-in-2005 restaurant has drawn the likes of Sir Paul McCartney to sample the impeccable menu of small plates and main dishes that are best shared with a group. Local Florida seafood such as Cape Canaveral sword fish and Apalachicola oysters are often on the menu. And Sunday through Tuesday nights host a popular prix-fixe special for $35 with such options as tomato shitake soup and Idaho rainbow trout among the three course extravaganza.
2. Ravenous Pig: Pressed tin ceilings and Edison lightbulbs set the retro-chic scene at this Winter Park gastropub, the best in town, where the monthly pig roasts (check website as the schedule varies) are a big local lure.
The puzzle
Aaaaahhh.....the Azulejos puzzle! How the hell did he do this? I heard from quite a few alert readers who all hit on the way it was done, but not the specifics. So when in doubt, just ask the Google......
Are you amazed by the Norberto Jansenson's Azulejos magic? How can 3 squares be removed from the grid and still fit in the frame? Yet, how can the same 3 squares be added back to the grid without altering the shape or area of the grid? All of your questions are answered here.
Goofy music video
Good TV for streaming
The summer is coming, and with it a TV desert of reruns and garbage, so you need to be ready with a list for Netflix, Amazon Prime and Amazon Instant Video [small fee]......
There is a new series out called "Resurrection", which is apparently the usual drivel, but it was based on a French series called "The Returned" which according to this review is really good.....on Netflix.....
While ABC's new series Resurrection
Both shows are based on a group of dead people coming back to life not as frightening flesh-eating zombies, but rather as seemingly normal human beings who haven't aged a day.
At the intersection of sci-fi and crime drama, with a saucy mix of horror and romance to boot,The Returned simultaneously spooks and pleasures viewers. Don't let its subtitles turn you off;The Returned is brilliant television.
'Resurrection.' Image Credit: E Online
The only thing that Resurrection succeeds in doing, on the other hand, is to turn its fascinating premise into something mundane and forgettable. Judging by the pilot, the show devotes too much airtime to ritualistic cop investigations and boring police procedures before later giving way to sappy melodrama.
By contrast, The Returned juxtaposes its beautifully eerie soundtrack and haunting cinematography with deeply developed (and often Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde-like) characters. With all due respect to Resurrection, here are seven reasons why The Returned is the show you should really be watching. Vive la France
"The Returned" trailer......
Classic video
Publix and the Tomato Pickers
If you read Scott Maxwell's column about how Publix refuses to pay the tomato pickers a penny a pound, this is his follow-up.....excellent!!! Get your pennies out and get down to your local Publix.......
Wednesday's column about Publix drew a healthy response.
Most readers liked the idea of Publix joining Walmart and other big food guys in pledging to pay an extra penny a pound for tomatoes so that impoverished farmworkers can make better wages and have basic rights, such as safety provisions.
But my favorite response game from Maggie Culp of Longwood. She wrote:
"I shopped at Publix this morning. While checking out, I pulled a penny from my pocket and informed the cashier that I wanted to donate a penny to help Publix pay tomato pickers a decent wage. The cashier looked confused. I pulled out your column and invited her to read it. She called the manager who said Publix did not need the penny. I disagreed, left the penny on the counter, and suggested that Publix prepare to receive lots of pennies in the next few weeks, since I planned to share the column with my neighbors, friends, relatives, and clients and encourage them to donate a penny to Publix each time they shopped."
I love this idea. It is consumer activism at its best. It's not calling for new government regulations. Or even a boycott. It's a way of politely and effectively making a point.
You're a customer. You like this store. And it's worth a puny penny to you to make sure farmworkers (who make as little as $12,000 harvesting 2,000 pounds a day) get better wages and working conditions.
CEOs of companies such as Walmart, McDonald's, Whole Foods, Trader Joe's have already joined the "Fair Food" coalition championed by religious leaders and worker activists.
This simple idea allows customers who like shopping at Publix (Florida's biggest, non-participating grocer) to let the store know they're ready to join the coalition as well. A voluntary action requesting voluntary participation.
I'll have my penny ready.
Movie time
There has been a dearth of good movies, so while we are waiting for "Divergent" this got a good review today....."Enemy", with Jake Gyllenhaal........
The double is an ancient and irresistible literary theme, especially beloved by philosophically minded scaremongers like Edgar Allan Poe, whose tale “William Wilson” is a concise classic on the matter. The idea of a second self — who might be the manifestation of madness, an allegory come to life or the result of a supernatural glitch in the order of things — is both frightening and fascinating. Movies make the conceit literal with the simple trick of using the same actor in two roles. Who can forget the two Kim Novaks driving James Stewart around the bend in “Vertigo”?
In “Enemy,” Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of a novella by the Nobel Prize-winning Portuguese novelist José Saramago, Jake Gyllenhaalplays two uncannily identical residents of an unnamed Canadian city. They are physically identical, in any case, but temperamentally distinct in ways that begin to suggest Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, to name another famous literary pair. And the question that haunts the film is whether they are really different people at all, or just sides of a single disordered personality.
"Enemy" trailer.......
More good TV - Network
"Crisis" is on NBC tomorrow [Sunday], and this review says it's really good........
These Kidnappers Hit the Mother Lode
By ALESSANDRA STANLEYMARCH 14, 2014
Kidnappings are risky, and not just for the victims.
Network dramas about characters held captive often peter out after a promising start, weighed down by the challenge of holding viewers’ interest in one crime for an entire season.“Crisis,” a new NBC series on Sunday, pivots on the snatching of a school bus carrying the president’s son and his classmates. The pilot is terrific, and it was directed by Phillip Noyce, whose credits include the Harrison Ford movie “Clear and Present Danger” and the pilot of ABC’s “Revenge.”
This action thriller also has the kind of elements — the White House, the C.I.A., the F.B.I., billionaire C.E.O.s, diplomats and, of course, teenage angst — that could make it a new “24.” But a series centered on a busload of kidnapped students and their fate, dragged out week after week, could easily try viewers’ patience.
Wow.....excellent trailer!
Todays quick joke
We had a power outage last weekend.
My PC and TV were shut down and it was raining.
Hunting season is over. There were no car shows, too cold to fish and
it was too wet and cold to play golf.
Had no cold beer and no ice for drinks, therefore I talked to my wife for a few hours.
She seems like a pleasant person.
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