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I am sure New Yorkers here are familiar with Zabars' prepared foods but I just tried the salmon cakes for the first time and wow really good. Followed by Livarot from the same.

Topos Too is a lovely space, all new rather than used books. More than just a cafe in the back, it has a very nice (beer/wine) bar. Wish it was in my neighborhood. I bought an Etel Adnan.

So I am almost done with Hawksmoor, which prompted a digression into Iain Sinclair's Lud Heat which was its partial inspiration. I can see the problem is that I am trying to do this in addition to my regular reading. I think some of the regular reading will have to be paused from time to time. Anyway, here's some more of the list. 6. Breton, Nadja 7. Broch, The Sleepwalkers 8. Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights 9. William Burroughs, Naked Lunch 10. Joyce Carey, The Horse's Mouth Some of these, like Nadja, will be really quick reads. Some, like The Sleepwalkers, will not.

I don't know when I saw "Sizwe Bandi..." but it was a long time ago. Looking at Wikipedia maybe it was the 1974 BBC TV production. I certainly knew it before the end of apartheid. Much respect.

So this is unmissable, Ana and Cisi showing off their musical knowledge interspersed with casual performances that are just a delight. Recorded last year because Ana has her broken foot. This is some of their best stuff. And funny, which they are.

I have been a Hero Bread customer for a long time, products all excellent.

There's a centenary exhibit at the NYPL building that is worth a look. I thought it might be just a few famous covers and cartoons, but it's better than that. Photos, manuscript letters and memos and telegrams, posters, lots of original art work too. Allow some time; so many items demand you stop and read that it's slow going.

Liquor store across the street now has plenty of Green and Yellow Chartreuse. Maybe one reason it has plenty is that the price has reached $79.99.

Truly bizarre. I thought my birth certificate was long lost. I was completing some forms this week that asked for a copy. Nope, I was going to send a copy of my passport instead. Separately, I was looking for a folder or something to hold some documents. I had a mess of them jammed together on a shelf. What the hell is in this one, pulling it out at random? Oh, my original birth certificate and a certified copy. I do need to de-clutter.

I remember spam fritters for school lunch, battered deep-fried spam from fish and chip shops. Sliced, fried Dominican salami hits a similar spot (must be Induveca).

I am into my second shipment of Folk Revival "oatmeal" although it's not really oatmeal at all (no grains). It has about half a dozen different seeds, crushed walnuts, coconut, acorn flour, maple flavoring, monkfruit, sea salt. 2g net carbs per serving. It took me a few tries to get the amount of liquid right (I use a mix of nut-based creamer and water) but now I figured it out it's really good. Of course, being Keto-friendly means not being so wallet-friendly; about $7 a serving.

Interesting article, but I admit for all my trips to New Orleans I wasn't really familiar with them.

Enlarging the picture I see Elvis "Aloha from Hawaii" next to Ms Wilde (although I could have just gotten up and gone and looked).

Hoarding, absolutely. I don't even have a working VHS player but I probably have 50 tapes. I do not know the Topos stores but clearly need to become acquainted. Wrong. I looked them up and I have been to the one a few minutes walk from what was Morscher's. I didn't know of Topos Too on Myrtle.

Wait, not downsizing at all. I've had those old Wodehouse books since I was a kid. I have countless old Penguins if you want to see them. I am just now mildly embarrassed by the Kim Wilde video tape in that picture. How is she doing?

Thank you for the response. I have some right here.

Oh lord, not donkey sauce.

"There is only so much time, and time must have a stop, while there is more to read than there ever was before." -- Harold Bloom I used to tell myself I would one day re-read my entire library, but even after one subtracts reference works, dictionaries, guide books and the like, simple math compels me to admit that won't happen. People have asked me, why do you keep all these books? You can't re-read them all. My response: I don't know which ones I will re-read. The time has come to decide. There are books it would break my heart never to read again, but of course nobody knows how much time remains. I made a start by listing about 50 or 60 works of fiction from my collection (I can't get my head around all the non-fiction). I probably won't read them in strict alphabetical order (by author), but I thought I'd try adding the list, bit by bit, here, to see what reactions there are. And maybe to hold myself to the project. 1. Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor 2. Leonid Andreyev, stories 3. Mikhail Artsybashev, Sanin 4. Samuel Beckett, The Unnameable 5. Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

Me and Sneak on Threadgill and life:

I saw in the New Yorker that Henry Threadgill is playing Jazz Gallery with Vijay Iyer around the end of May. It will sell out. I can't believe there are still chances to see him.

Good news comes in threes. They are finally actually shooting Euphoria season 3. They are sane enough to have moved beyond high school. And Zen will win her third Emmy.

Last hunk of meat from Foster Sundry, a big boneless beef shank. Braised of course. Second round tonight was tacos. I still have at least one serving left. After a couple of hours in the low oven I was worried that it would stay tough. Two hours more and it was perfect.

Oscar and when she went to her Dominican heritage I cried of course. My daughter, my Dominican family. Big deal.

Car crash. Where is the good news?

I don't have any words.