Friday was dinner at Gene's with Tom and the movie "Beginners". The movie was so so and the dinner OK, but my favorite was the Cosmo. It was so good I had another.
Saturday was a lot of housework, the heavy duty kind. That's where I wash everything in the bathroom except the ceiling, note to myself - do the ceiling. Did the laundry, etc. Then settled down to a home cooked meal of Ahi Tuna Steak and veggies. I cooked veggies because I am concerned about E-Coli. According to the NY Times about 5,000 people die in the US each year because of E-Coli. The Times article links the severity of the bacteria to the high use of antibiotics. North Carolina uses more antibiotics in its farming industry then the whole United States uses for its people. Therefore we get highly resistant strains of E-Coli.
The movie last night was "Touchez Pas au Grisbi", don't touch the grisbi, slang for loot, with Jean Gabin [this film reportedly revised his career], Jeanne Moreau [one of her first movies, 25 years old & she plays a chorus girl/moll { kind of a hoot}] and Lino Venturo, the great Italian-born French actor in his first role [he made 77 movies most notably Army Of Shadows. He was originally a wrestler and got picked by the director for this film.] The film is about a world-weary gangster who is double crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of 8 stolen gold bars are demanded as ransom.
At the Grisbi site there is a comment/review by "palmiro" that is very good. Two interesting points he makes: the special male camaraderie of the french that is expected and never second guessed by the french. No Oscar Wilde "love that dare not speak its name" subtext. The second is the director, Jacques Becker's overt communist/anti-west sympathies that are present in the movie.
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Did you read the article in the New Yorker about test tube meat? It's funny that people's reaction to test tube meat is "Yuck" and that it is not "natural" but it is okay to eat animals, birds and fish that endure lives of unspeakable cruelty in factory farms not being able to move or see the sky or breath fresh air, being shot full of antibiotics and who knows what else.
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