A few days late, but here it goes . . . .Dinner: Salad, spaghetti and meatballs, bread.Dessert: Sorbet.Movie: Touch of Evil (neither one of us liked it too much.)Conversation Topics: e.e. cummings, Harold Bloom, home schooling, molinism, National Book Award, Pearl Buck, science fiction, Stephen King, Tad Williams, westerns.Next Thursday Night Gumbo: March 22.
It all started with The Iliad.Having both read Homer's epic a few months before the movie Troy was released, we were interested in seeing how the struggle between Achilles and Hector played out on the big screen.Never having the chance to see it in the theaters (thankfully), we watched it one Thursday night in November 2005.In the course of the after-movie discussion (we both despised Troy), the movie We Were Soldiers came up. Vehige had seen it and loved it, but Woodward hadn't. So we decided to get together on another Thursday night and watch it.Now we had seen a movie neither one of us had seen, then a movie Vehige had seen but Woodward hadn't, so it seemed only logical that Woodward pick a movie for us to watch that he'd seen but Vehige hadn't. He picked Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, which Vehige loved, and that's how our Thursday night movie watching started.For the last year, we've stuck to this rotation -- mutual pick, Vehige's pick, Woodward's pick -- and, consequent
