Looking forward to the Cazenovia Shakespeare Club’s annual celebration of Shakespeare’s birthday, this evening at the Lincklaen House.

Foggy day today.

My wife and I had a long conversation over dinner with a medieval-studies scholar and a physicist. The conversation ranged over an incredible variety of different topics. It was kindof dazzling.

I just finished The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene. It’s a novel written with great skill and a very interesting story, although (as a person who was not raised in any kind of religious tradition) I’m a bit perplexed at the author’s Catholic obsession with guilt, sin, and damnation.

I watched the first episode of The Museum of Innocence on Netflix. I had not read the Orhan Pamuk novel so I didn’t know quite what to expect. Technically it was very well-done but the story was appalling. It’s a kind of creepy patriarchal sex fantasy.

The biography of her by Joanna Moorhead is great. Best artist biography I’ve ever read.

Yes

Dude is 72 years old but he looks like he’s 92.

Yes this is always true.

Yes! Sometimes weirdos need affirmations.

Looking forward to this. I loved your first book.

My wife who is a professor complains about this a lot.

“Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity” is a really interesting documentary.

I saw a terrific performance of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” by August Wilson at Syracuse Stage last night. A powerful and profound play. The actors were superb.

Looking out at my backyard I saw a red squirrel chasing a gray squirrel. The gray squirrel was at least twice as big as the squirrel that was chasing it. I wonder if this is some kind of omen.

I discovered this poem when I was very young, and it has stayed with me ever since.

I always love this! One of my favorite funny things.

Cazenovia Shakespeare Club meeting this evening. We’ll be doing a read-through of a short play, “Spreading the News” by Lady Gregory (1904).

Your memoir is illuminating and intense.

I remember this book. Love it.

Interesting. I have played this tune many times on my Irish flute, and had no idea what it was about!

Yes, great one. I also really like the eerily beautiful rendition by Belinda Carlisle.

I’m going to a literary dinner this evening at my friend Lisa’s house in Dewitt. My poetfriend Charles Martin will be the featured reader.