Warning - if you watch Song Sung Blue, you might have Neil Diamond songs in your head for 24-48 hours after. At least, that's what's happened to me. Anyway, this is solid, old-school entertainment - the kind of film both my mom and dad might like. Kate Hudson is now my choice for best actress.

Yes, go away

Fun fact: less than six months ago, Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the head of Binance, for money laundering as a part of the dirty deal for NVIDIA chips sent to the UAE that netted the Trump family $500 million.

The Siena Saints are going to the NCAA Tournament… …. … And that means BALOO THE SAINT BERNARD IS GOING TO THE NCAA TOURNAMENT!!!! CONGRATULATIONS BALOO (and also the basketball players etc)

The Creature from the Black Lagoon

"But almost two weeks into the conflict, the US war effort is showing unexpected signs of strain against an adversary whose military budget is smaller than the GDP of Vermont — but which has an arsenal of missiles and drones unlike anything the US has ever faced." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

So Wemby is good.

Just got around to reading this New Yorker piece on Greenland from late last year. Some good on-the-ground reporting about the needs and wants of the island's residents, which have mostly been overlooked amid Trump's bullying www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The US Navy correctly understands that there is zero political will or operational reason to risk casualties in this campaign, which raises the question of why we're doing it in the first place.

I might not know what I’m doing this week or later this month, but I’m pleased to report that my son is registered for all of his summer camps.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now, according to sources familiar .. www.marketscreener.com/news/us-navy...

Porch time

"Nobody could have predicted every way Trump has bollocksed up his second term, but the fact that he was likely to bollocks it, and the means by which he was likely to bollocks it, were almost as obvious as DOGE’s fraudulence." www.offmessage.net/p/elites-mag...

BREAKING: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Charles "Sonny" Burton to life in prison. Burton was sentenced to death for the 1991 murder of Doug Battle but did not kill Battle; the man who did later had his death sentence commuted.

Few people asked for this and few people like it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

“An excursion”

The public is just not into this war poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

I don't want to pay the price It seems awfully high And I'm not talking about the price of gas

Giving this a spin. So far, I really like it. #NowListening mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...

Porch day

The seventh U.S. service member to die in this senseless war has been identified. www.stripes.com/branches/arm...

The Trump administration is repeating the same failures that have long defined US Middle East policy, says Jon Hoffman. Absent a course correction, the US is on the path to another forever war. https://ow.ly/Mx1U50YrixH

"Poisoning the air that the entire population breathes is a horrifying crime. The U.S. and Israel are inflicting monstrous collective punishment on one of the largest cities in the world in a war they started." daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-poison...

Trump announces only those with license plates ending in an odd number can get gas this week

feels telling about American foreign policy punditry that while many decry the aimlessness of Trump’s monstrously wrong Iran war there were far more outraged columns over the harm done to US power and influence and standing and interests and example when Biden rightly withdrew from Afghanistan.

The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️ @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Tonight’s sky

My son got a little easel for his birthday. I think he likes it.

Another U.S. life lost in this senseless war www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...

ICE deported a 6 year old deaf child with severe disabilities to Columbia. Before deporting him, they dragged him from camp to camp without providing his assistive hearing devices or a translator. This innocent child had no way to communicate or understand what was being done to him:

Listened to some of this guy’s music for a high school project about sixties protest music RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

My Fantastic Mr. Fox print from @briannaduggan.bsky.social arrived yesterday. We love it.

Watched The Secret Agent. It's good! I loved the sprawling nature of it, how real and lived-in it looks and feels, and the way it shows both the beauty of its setting - the Brazilian city of Recife in 1977 - alongside the daily crimes and brutality of a fascist regime.

BREAKING Initial reports of an explosion at the U.S embassy in Norway, no reports of casualties

This is at least the third attack on democratic official residences by right wing actors in under a year no? there were the murders of the minnesotta state reps the burning of the PA governor residence and now this?

happy 76th birthday to karen carpenter, ranked best drummer in the world in 1975 at the age of 18 🔥

"If the US does not relax its war aims and the Islamic Republic does not collapse, the Trump administration may find itself contemplating the deployment of ground troops in an effort to directly induce Tehran’s collapse." www.19fortyfive.com/2026/03/inva...

Watched the 1997 film Office Killer, the sole feature film from visual artist Cindy Sherman. It's pretty brilliant, though not for all tastes - it stars Carol Kane as a mousy office worker who begins murdering her co-workers after being forced to work from home. Office Killer deftly combines the

A very forlorn snowman’s final days

I'm always excited to find a new breakfast spot. I stopped by the Little City Luncheonette on New Scotland Ave. in Albany and got the latke eggs benedict. Pretty good! Will return.

Cohoes Falls

Scouts going sledding

On average, gas prices in the region skyrocketed by about 20 cents in one week.

On the lighter side, I wrote about how this has been a rough season for mailboxes for Capital Region Living crlirl.substack.com/p/no-mailbox...

Administration having trouble maintaining the “not a war” position.

The resolute urgency of now #NowListening

"If war is God’s way of teaching Americans geography, perhaps it will also serve as a lesson to Trump. ... Other places and other people are real, possessing their own agendas and agency — and America’s actions have consequences it cannot control." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...