Good morning, Stroock's Books visitors and welcome to Stroock's Books. Newcomers will note they rhyme.
Today Northern New Jersey is sunny and cool.
We barbequed some hamburgers last night, and now we're sitting through a gout attack.
Someone or thing from Vietnam (sorry about all the bombing, guys) hit this blog over 7,000 times last night.
In Doha, negotiations between Israel and Hamas are not going well, they say. 'Too many fundamental differences', they say. Good. Meanwhile, the Israelis have pushed five divisions into Gaza. Also good. This blog, which for months and months has counseled patience, now urges action. The time for patience has passed. Whatever you are going to do, Israel, do it now. Gaza, Bibi. It's time to win the war.
Andor, Second thought of the week. In both seasons, Andor's most compelling scenes showed the Imperial Security Bureau. These are white jacketed, black jodhpur, boot wearing (wonder where the costume people got the idea for those unis?) little bureaucrats spying for the Empire and trampling anyone who get in their way. The main ISB character is Dedra Meero, a very ambitious ISB officer eager to protect the empire and just as eager to advance her career. Calculating and ruthless. Dedra's character arc is...interesting. Frankly, we couldn't help but like her.
We told an Irish-American friend about Oldest Daughter being let into a country club for prom over the weekend. He too was shocked that the club allowed a Jewish girl and her Indian date. 'Of course I'd have had to use the side entrance,' our Irish-American friend quipped. Quite right. We two then set about the task of coming up with WASP names to cover up our combined Judean/Celtic heritage. So far... Preston York...Chip Alexander...Conner Blyth-Tam...James 'Buzz' Barrington...Reader(s) will get the idea.
DOGE report: Alright, alright, alright....no writing yesterday but we finally figured out how to write the South Armagh chapter. We'll begin today. We also did plenty of research and thinking for
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