Saturday

England’s Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is underway. Photo from voanews.com:

Headline from nypost.com: “Nudists want clothing banned on beach — it makes them ‘uncomfortable’.” If that makes them uncomfortable, what doesn’t?

This NYP headline put a big smile on my face: “Native Americans Want ‘Washington Redskins’ Name Back.”

From NYP: “Michael Cohen Looking to Challenge Dem Rep. Nadler.” Where else could such a sleazeball turn but politics? He’s a natural for it. Lowlife vs. lowlife — what a battle looms.

Excerpt from a Ross Dellenger article at sports.yahoo.com concerning the college conference realignment madness in progress. Stanford is one of four remaining Pac-10 teams: “Cardinal athletic programs have won 134 NCAA championships, the most of any school, and it has claimed the NACDA Directors’ Cup as the nation’s most successful college athletic department in 26 of 29 years. Not to be outdone, the university, academically, ranks №3 in America.”

Friday night’s movie fix was a big winner, Sicario (2015). I usually pass on drug movies, but since it was directed by Denis Villenueve and written by Taylor Sheridan, I gave it a shot. It’s the story of the effort to find Mexican drug lords. Emily Blunt stars as an FBI agent asked to join a group whose methods quickly appall her. The crew, whose origin is unknown but perhaps government approved, is as brutal as the opposition. This raises the great question: is this the only way to deal with souless criminals who have grown more powerful than many governments? This is for the viewer to decide, although there is a tilt to the position of Blunt’s character. I will say no more to avoid being a spoiler. Benecio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal, Victor Garber and Jeffrey Donovan are the faces of the supporting cast I recognized. 452 users at IMDb have rated Sicario, forging to a consensus of 7.7 on a scale of ten. It was a big winner at the box office. Made on a budget estimated at $30 million, it returned almost $85 million worldwide. Anyone bothered by hopelessness, cynicism and violence should pass. This is about the ugly underbelly of life that most of us, thankfully, only read about or view in newscasts. Fortunately, a lot of the gunplay is in the dark or offscreen, or it would have been too much. The title translates to hitman. Photo from Google Images:

The humidity was high today, although I doubt it had anything to do with the floating book shop’s paltry return. My thanks to Monse`, who bought this:

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