With the flix email through Gotham heating up and my uncannily accurate predictions for the year, I decided to jump out on the ledge to predict the Oscars this year.   Here are my predictions for tomorrow night's contest:  

My Friday With Fred blog appears in this space weekly and, theoretically, there is attendant deadline pressure.  A deadline is a date or time on or before which something must be completed.  When I was young I oft times failed to meet deadlines. As a consequence I paid many a price and learned my lesson. Now my reaction to a deadline is to stay ahead of it. 

2 Fools And A Bull is a restaurant in Aruba. Only one sitting per evening. About sixteen people sitting around a counter with the chef and host in the center. Chef’s choice and many courses with wine. Lends itself to good conversation with interesting new friends for the evening.

  Do you have it? Have you ever found yourself holding your breath while answering email?

I learned at a very young age that there are two types of people in the world; those that like milk chocolate and those that like dark chocolate. And, the best marriages, are composed of one of each type of chocolate lover.

As mentioned last week, we are moving shortly. We have been very busy packing. We also have to paint two darker colored walls in our current townhouse with primer. There is a handyman we use for all sorts of things and we had asked him to do it. Then I thought why not do it myself and save a few hundred dollars. So I bought the primer and a roller and pan and cloth. Easy so far. I did one wall, rather nicely I must say. And then realized that I had not changed out of my nice jeans. Sure enough there was a splatter of primer on my nice jeans.

So a private company is in the process of finalizing their candidates for a one way trip to Mars. No I'm not kidding. Click here to see Mars One. They are selling broadcast rights, sponsorhips and crowdfunding to get it done. They'll start sending humans, four at a time, to Mars starting in 2024.  

I was born in 1942 and some of my earliest trackable memories were about Jackie Robinson (his World altering debut-Rookie Year was in1947) and people exclaiming "As quick as Jackie Robinson". However, my first tangible memories were of "Uncle Miltie" in the late 40s and "I Love Lucy" in the early 50s. TV was new then and a sensation. We were even enthrall ed by the black and white test pattern on our channel 2-13 TV menu.  Somehow, Edward R. Murrow broke through too with his epic socially conscious "See It Now" on CBS.