Sunday, July 13, 2025

July 4, 2010

John Adams (on a portrait of Benjamin Franklin): "The artist is no Botticelli."

Franklin: "The subject is no Venus."

--1776

"Mapmakers everywhere await your decision"--ibid.


    Dreamed of the moment in the Warner Brothers cartoon Hare We Go where Christopher Columbus exclaims "Oh, ravioli!"; ordering breakfast in a restaurant, choosing scrambled eggs and sausages, but being told that was on the dinner menu.


    Today the Games Meetup came to our house.  There were eight people, including me.  We had a lot of strawberries, but few people were interested.  First we played Poo twice, a card game about primates throwing excrement at each other.  Then I played Powergrid for the first time, which is an interesting game.  I also played a dice game called Ra, and Ticket to Ride. (The other group played a very long Agricola game.)


Dinner was McDonald's.


    Saw the musical 1776 (for the second time), taped off TCM.  Intelligent though often stagey.

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