Monday Show

Good morning, Stroock's Books fans, and happy Monday.

The morning air is cool with temps reaching into the high 70s today. 

We are genuinely surprised that Netanyahu ignored Trump and attacked Iran. It would seem negotiations have failed and Trump has lost control of events. The Israelis struck three airbases, air defenses and one petrochemical factory. Iran's launched 24 missiles in four barrages. Iran's response strikes us as weak and flaccid. 

What Will's Watching: A Marriage Story. We restarted this and watched the 2nd act. Much better with a lot of legal maneuvering, and Charlie's horrified realization that Nicole doesn't want to part amicably. Alan Alda plays Charlie's old, experienced, and slipping divorce attorney. We're enjoying Alda very much.

What Will's Also Watching: The Tony Awards. The girls love dance theatre and one of their instructors was in the show. We liked the opener well enough. Pink was fine as the show host. And we did like the great John Lithgow's gracious acceptance speech. The rest of the Tonys devolved into self-celebration and self-reverence. We've never liked Broadway and its pretentions. It's magical, don't you know? What is all this gay crap [In the theatre? Stunning-Ed]? Oh well, we're not the audience anyway.  We'll say this for the Tonys; it was a well scripted and tight show. Were we not entertained?

The Tonys had a couple of PSAs is support of theatre and drama programs. Which is fine. We were a theatre kid, lo those many years ago now, 35 of them. In high school we played a sailor in Anything Goes, and Captain Bracket in South Pacific our senior year:

We did enjoy the Hendrick Hudson Drama Club. In college we played Cradeau in No Exit* and Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer. The spring of 1995 marked the end of our drama career. But from time to time we had the actor's nightmare for years. 

DOGE report.

We got the BAOR story to the actual British counterattack. So far so good. 

Today we'll go back over Thatcher' War and see just what's left to do. 

We will not work on the Battle of Ardee this week.

*Hated the experience. No Exit is a bunch of French existentialist (we still don't know what that is) bullshit and the director controlled our every word and movement on stage. Asshole. The crew hated him too.