Philip K. Dick - Authors List

Philip K. Dick - Authors List. 6 Books. An interesting science fiction author who has written about 45 novels and numerous short story collections. I've read five novels and one collection. I had known about this author for many years but it took the movie Blade Runner for me to read a novel. Then it was another 20 years before I starting reading him again. There are plenty more I should check out.

I also liked the TV series of The Man in the High Castle. 

• Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 1968 - Nov 1986
• Ubik, 1969 - Nov 2007
• The Divine Invasion, 1981- Aug 2009
• VALIS, 1981 -  Oct 2009
• The Minority Report: Collection of Short Stories, 2002 - Dec 2009
• The Man in the High Castle, 1962 - Jul 2016

Typical Day for the Orange Turd

Trump had another mental health episode today.

This is what trump posted on social media 57 times.

The photo is also from today

11:15 AM - Trump attacks judge who said he couldn’t put his name on the Kennedy Center
12:03 PM - Says he may perform and give a speech at the America 250 event instead of artists who cancelled
12:08 PM - Says Obama filled the Reflecting Pool with Garbage
12:09 PM - Attacks Biden
12:09 PM - Posts edited photo of Columbus Circle in DC with the caption “CLEAN”
12:10 PM - Attacks Biden again
12:11 PM - Posts AI photo of him and George Washington riding horses in front of the White House with a space shuttle and race car in the background
12:11 PM - Attacks Rosie O’Donnell
12:11 PM - Posts photo of him in front of the American flag
12:11 PM - Brags about his endorsed candidates winning
12:12 PM - Attack Obama and Biden over the reflecting pool
12:12 PM - Posts photo of him pointing at the camera
12:13 PM - Posts photo of the UFC event cage he’s building at the White House
12:13 PM - Posts an AI image of a “golden dome” for the White House
12:15 PM - Defends Jaxson Dart, calling him a “winner” and his critics “losers”
12:45 PM - Posts an AI image of him as a NY Knicks basketball player dunking on Governor Kathy Hochul
12:56 PM - Posts an AI image of him with Tom Brady
1:03 PM - Posts a garbage can labeling it “The Obama Presidential Library”
1:16 PM - Says America is back
1:16 PM - Says America is back again
1:16 PM - Says America is back for the 3rd time
1:55 PM - Posts an AI image of him golfing
2:55 PM - Says he’s in “excellent health” lol
3:17 PM - Promotes his Fox News interview with Lara Trump
4:33 PM - Attacks the Pope again
4:54 PM - Posts a weird image of him staring at Greenland (which he has posted already)
4:57 PM - Posts an AI image of the “drone port” he wants to build on top of the ballroom
5:33 PM - Attacks Biden
5:33 PM - Attacks Biden x2
5:34 PM - Attacks Biden x3
5:34 PM - Attacks Biden x4
5:34 PM - Attacks Biden x5
5:35 PM - Posts cartoon image of Governors Newsom, Pritzker, and Hochul saying they like crime (Trump is a felon)
5:36 PM - Posts meme about Republicans who voted to release the Epstein files losing their primaries
5:36 PM - Posts an old tweet of his where he attacks “disloyal” Republicans
5:37 PM - Posts an old tweet where he said he wants to stop the world from “killing itself”
5:37 PM - Posts a mock up of a “Trump Peace Prize” which may be the most useless peace prize known to man
5:37 PM - Posts a photo of a B-2 bomber with the caption “Trump energy 2026”
5:37 PM - Posts a photo of his face on Mount Rushmore
5:38 PM - Posts an image of him kissing the American flag (he’s the least patriotic president we’ve ever had)
5:39 PM - Compares himself to George Washington
5:39 PM - Says you were convinced to think a photo of a family sitting on a car is “evil” and billions were spent to do that (???)
5:50 PM - Says we should “physically audit” Fort Knox
5:50 PM - Posts an image of him cosplaying as a navy commander
5:51 PM - Posts another image of his face on Mount Rushmore
5:51 PM - Posts another photo of him and George Washington
6:09 PM - Attacks Biden again
6:09 PM - Attacks Biden x2
6:09 PM - Attacks Biden x3
6:09 PM - Posts an old photo of himself and King Charles
6:12 PM - Posts an old photo of himself and President XI in China
6:12 PM - Posts another photo of himself and President Xi
6:22 PM - Posts a photo of himself walking in China
6:48 PM - Says the U.S. should have a ballroom because China has one
7:03 PM - Says he wants to cancel his America 250 celebration and replace it with a MAGA rally
7:56 PM - Promotes Mark Levin’s show on Fox News
7:59 PM - Promotes his Fox News interview with Lara Trump
All in one day. This man is not well. Impeachment and removal NOW.

Yukio Mishima - Authors List

Yukio Mishima - Authors List. I read five Mishima novels all in one year. 1978. The first book I read was The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea but that was about a year or so after I saw the film version with Kris Kristofferson that was released in 1976. I was fascinated with the story and really wanted to read the novel the movie was based on. Then it was on with reading the Sea of Fertility series.

In June 1978 I just finished my four years at Temple University with a degree in Media and Film Studies. I relaxed that summer reading these books.

• The Sailor Who Fell Grace With The Sea, 1963 - Jun 1978
• Spring Snow, 1969 - Jul 1978
• Runaway Horses, 1969 - Aug 1978
• The Temple of Dawn, 1970 - Aug 1978
• The Decay of the Angel, 1971 - Sep 1978

Chicken Dinner

Becky made a wonderful chicken cutlet dinner with some nice potatoes in butter. Nice salad too.

It was a delicious dinner after a nice walk through the neighborhood.

Sonny Rollins - Kitchen Listening 4

Kitchen Listening. Sonny Rollins. The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside and Contemporary Recordings 1956 - 1958, 2000 - 5 CD Set. 

Another set of listening to Sonny Rollins this week. This collection brings together many of the albums from that two year period where he played on other artist's albums and some of his own works on the Riverside and Contemporary record company albums. This box set also includes the Thelonious Monk album Brilliant Corners from 1957. 

Overall a nice addition to the series of his albums I've been listening to this week.

The Image

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America by Daniel J. Boorstin, 1962. I came across this book while recently browsing the American history section of the Canisius College Library. Browsing a library is becoming a lost art. So I came across this book and picked it up. I had read some of Boorstin's American history books over the years but not in a long time.

I finished this today and enjoyed it's perspective of it's time although I did skip over a few spots here and there which I don't usually do but some of this content was dated although interesting. I especially liked his views on some of the early concepts of American culture that we take for granted today but were relatively new when he was writing. Things like advertising, mass media, travel agencies, reader's digest, political polling, changes in technology, etc. 

Downtown Evening

Becky had to drop off some artwork at Book Arts downtown at Washington and Mohawk. We decided to go for a walk around the area and then go somewhere for dinner. We decided on dinner at the Streetlight Brassiere. We had a nice meal there last year.

We went down there at 4 pm, hung out a little bit talking with the staff and then walked around the area. Mike told us about a tiny mall nearby that was interesting to explore on Main Street. The entrance was a book store and a narrow hallway took us through to several businesses that ended with a ramen restaurant. We walked up and down several streets before heading over to the Streetlight at 5 pm. 

We had a wonderful dinner. Very tasty and the service was great. I had their Streetlight Smashburger and Becky had a Buffalo Chicken sandwich. We shared an order of fries. I also had a Sapporo Lager on tap.

When we came into the restaurant the host sat us at a prime location table at the front window where we had a great view of the downtown neighborhood and the happy hour bar crowd.

Sonny Rollins - Kitchen Listening 3

Another set of Sonny Rollins Kitchen Listening. Three compilation albums and then a live album.

The Prestige Profiles album features selections from his albums on the Prestige label 1953 to 1956. The Blue Note years cover 1956 and 1957. The RCA years were from 1957 to 1962. The live album at the Village Vanguard was recorded in 1957.

• Prestige Profiles: Sonny Rollins, 2004
• Best of Sonny Rollins: The Blue Note Years, 1989
• The Essential Sonny Rollins: The RCA Years, 2005
• A Night at the Village Vanguard, 1958

Bags of Mulch

Today we went over to the garden center at Home Depot and got 8 bags of mulch and a couple of bags of soil. A bag of grass seed too. It's that time of year and we are a little behind because of the week we recently spent at Katie's house. Tomorrow Becky is going to the garden center to buy plants.

It's nice to go there and buy this stuff then drive to the back lot and someone loads it into the car for you. But of course we had to get it out of the car, on to a wheel barrow and then get it out to the backyard... one bag at a time.

Sonny Rollins - Kitchen Listening 2

Listened to more classic Sonny Rollins today. This time some earlier albums from the 1950's in my collection. This set went on for about three hours.

I was a tenor sax player in my teens and Sonny Rollins was an early influence. I had some friends that played sax with me in the Uptown Mummers String Band who were older than me and liked playing music for me because I was always interested in hearing something new... like Sonny Rollins.

• Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet, 1953
• Moving Out, 1954
• Rollins Plays For Bird, 1956
• Tenor Madness, 1956