Dispatches From the Fortress – Day 345

I'm due for my second shot of Moderna next Tuesday but shipments of it to Los Angeles have been delayed by bad weather and probably some bad planning…so I've yet to be notified as to when my appointment will be. The website says "the second dose may be given up to 6 weeks (42 days) after the first dose" and I had the first dose on January 26 so I guess they have until March 3rd to get the stuff into me. Not worried.


In other news: I've decided to do my blood pressure a favor and not watch the Woody Allen/Mia Farrow documentary that begins airing this weekend. As I've written here before, I think the case against Mr. Allen is very weak…and I don't say that because I admire him as a comedian. I had no trouble thinking Bill Cosby was guilty of what he was charged with and I admired him as a comedian. (That is, by the way, the only analogy between the two men that I think is valid.)

Anyway, I've spent enough hours of my life thinking about this. Let me know if and when anyone ever makes a documentary about this and interviews Moses Farrow or anyone who will really give Woody's side of it.


You may recall that I was watching episodes of the old detective show Vegas — the one starring Robert Urich as Dan Tanna — at the rate of two or three per evening, working my way through a set of them all. A friend of mine one told me he didn't like watching old fave shows this way because, to approximately quote him, "You hit a point where every episode is the same as the one you watched before and the one you watched before that."

I hit that point with Vegas — where almost every episode was about some unknown killer out there who was plotting to kill Dan Tanna, an employee of Dan Tanna's, a longtime friend of Dan Tanna's, a relative of Dan Tanna's or a longtime friend or relative of a longtime friend of Dan Tanna's. I'm also getting to the point where I think I could pick Robert Urich's stunt double out of a police lineup that included Robert Urich. That is, if if he were still with us.

I'll try watching more episodes in a few weeks. And I'll try to remember that weekly shows weren't made to be watched this way.