Restless. Can't sleep. Turn on BBC News. Report - Iraq-Turkey Railway Link Re-opens.
Turn on Stephanie Miller. They're rather worked up about Evan Bayh's defection. Two-term Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) says ever-shriller partisanship and the frustrations of gridlock made it time for him to leave Congress. Read Straight - Why Protest Vancouver Games. Rice with spaghetti sauce and a fried egg. Shower. Up to Kaladi to get a cup of Jeremiah's splendid coffee. Walk through Freeway Park back to my place. Visit Whole Foods to get some lunch - pasta salmon salad. 10 to 12 - Planning time for Anne. Kenn covers for Elaine. Seven Starfish hang out in the Bike Room. Some infants drop in, too. Kenn gets out stamp pads and poster paper. Stamping is fun. 12 - Pam's lunch. Only 4 Dolphins. They're finishing up their lunch. Harrison is asleep already. By 12:15, all the Dolphins are asleep. Fold up a lot of laundry. 1 - Teresa's lunch. Paxton is our early-riser today. He takes me down to the Bike Room. 2 - Up to the Trailblazers & Explorers for nap time. Jessica went home sick. Karen shows me their Haiti book. Walk up to Capitol Hill. Get a Mondo Burrito at the B'way store. Drop off stuff at my place. I'm tired. Turn on The World. They interview Clifford Rouzeau - the owner of Muncheez - a restaurant in Haiti feeding more than a thousand people free lunches.
Beefy burrito for dinner. Watch movie - Spartacus. This film is 50-years-old... directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the novel of the same name by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. The gladiators enjoy a steam.
Kirk Douglas is the rebellious slave Spartacus. He gets painted up to show the places on the blody to kill, maim and wound.
An Ethiopian named Draba refuses to kill Spartacus. He throws his trident into the elevated spectators' box and leaps to attack the Romans. He's killed and hung up as an example. "Let him rot!"
In the Senate of Rome, senator Gracchus cunningly manipulates Marcus Glabrus into taking six cohorts of the Garrison of Rome out to crush the revolts, leaving the way open for Julius Caesar to take command of the garrison during the absence of Glabrus.
Crassus receives new slaves as a gift from the governor of Sicily. Among them is Antoninus (Tony Curtis). I enjoy the double entendres exchanged between the two. "Do you prefer snails or oysters?"
I think that Antoninus prefers Spartacus. Antoninus joins the revolution. He identifies himself as a poet and illusionist. Later he entertains the slave army, but he is determined to be a soldier, indirectly commenting on the relation between politics and art.
I can't finish the movie. I conk out during the second half.
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