I just noticed that I am

reading:
Man Without Qualities
and have seen the following two movies in the past month:
Man on a Train
and
Man Without a Past

This is a lot of Men.

Books I is reading or has read during the last few weeks:

Between East and West --Anne Applefield -- travels along what used to be the borderlands between Russia and Europe.

Closing of the American Mind --- Allan Bloom-- Who are we today and how did we get to this dismal intellectual state?

A Problem from Hell --America and the Age of Genocide -- Samantha Power -- Race Murders in the twentieth century --Armenia Cambodia, Holocaust, Bosnia, the Kurds, Kosovo, Rwanda. But remember genocide goes back much further than the 20th century.

The DaVinci Code-- a great page turner-- a lot about the Catholic Church, the Virgin Mary Cult, Mary Magdellan, Knights Templar, Opus Die...

Starting The Man Without Qualities Robert Musil -- This will be my second time around. .

Greg Peck, Hume Cronim, and Larry Doby all died this week.

Larry Doby's name reminded me of Grand Admiral Karl C. Dönitz, last leader of Nazi Germany; (remember him?)
too bad his middle name wasn't Duncan. mek

born on 9-16-1891 in Berlin, Germany
expired 12-24-1980 in Aumühle-Bilenkamp, Germany age 89

Maria and I will be headed north on Sunday. Looks like we'll be staying in Great Neck after a week at the Montauk Yacht Club with the pension fund. (actually 2 days with the Pension Fund. The other days are on me.) If we have any money left we'll go to Maine at the end of July because I need lobster...