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Had a summary of our gathering (Woollies) at the Istanbul Bistro, but lost in a multiple cascading of Internet Explorer browser pages.\u00a0 Probably a sign I should go back to Firefox.\u00a0 I used to use it, then I abandoned it, used it again, and abandoned it again.\u00a0 Just like Darth Vader I keep coming back to the evil empire.<\/p>\n
Mark, Warren, Paul, Tom, Frank, Bill and Stefan showed up.\u00a0 We spoke of politics and Rome, of Green Knights present and long dead.\u00a0A brief comment was made about the Istanbul not being a sportsbar, a positive.\u00a0 It’s quiet and it has a round table around which this latter day collection of Knights Errant can sit.\u00a0 That does mean knights in error, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n
Mark has a gig in Bangkok designing teen sex exhibitions for Unesco\/Thailand.\u00a0 It’s a campaign to promote safe sex in a nation where AIDS among youngsters has become a problem again.\u00a0 After that he will return to the US, then go back to Cambodia to construct an exhibit near the killing fields, one dealing with the Buddhist afterlife.\u00a0 To continue the international theme Paul Strickland will host a trip to Syria in November and his organization will co-host a trip with the Hindu Temple of Maple Grove to Southern India.\u00a0 Stefan chimed in with the fact that he’s taking his kids to Rome to visit a person he knows who works in the American Embassy there.\u00a0 Makes for good dinner table conversation.\u00a0 Those who’d been to Rome all agreed the most memorable moment was the first coffee.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We discussed the political scene.\u00a0\u00a0All of us were happy with the real choices represented by the\u00a0candidates.\u00a0 Of course, SuperTuesday will eliminate any chance for us\u00a0to pariticipate in candidate selection and after\u00a0we will have 7 months of attack ads, but right now it is glorious.\u00a0 Tom wondered if any of us had supported any candidates financially.\u00a0 Frank said, yes, he and Mary had sent money to Obama.<\/p>\n
Warren reported good news about his mom and dad.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0The retreat and a theme came up, but we put it off until Paul’s.\u00a0 Mark will not attend since he’s got to be in Thailand the first week of February.\u00a0 I’m leaving early for Hawai’i.\u00a0 One of those years.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Forgot to mention here I watched Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast<\/u> the other night. It’s one of the Janus Films collection I got for my 60th birthday, 50 films from 50 years of their distribution of foreign films in the US.\u00a0 This movie floats across the mind like a dream, a fairy tale given form and substance.\u00a0 It’s images have remained with me.\u00a0 It sat in my DVD player for a long time because I didn’t want to watch it; but, like each one of the films from the collection I’ve watched it had its own unique charm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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