Friday Odds & Sods, Too: Electric Boogaloo

As autumn officially gets underway and the start of another year becomes just barely visible behind of the end of this one, it is pleasing to reflect how time, which we often perceive as a straight line, is really a matter of cycles.  Year follows year, season follows season, day, day,  and on and on. Only the limits of our own self-centered perspective makes us convince that time is the setting for the epic (or rather, the short story) of our own existence, with a clearly defined progression.  But never fear, dear reader: The eternal recurrence of Friday Odds & Sods will serve as a constant reminder of the true nature of past, present, and future.

• BAM is putting on a production of some of Samuel Beckett's one woman shows in two weeks, starring Irish actress Lisa Dawn.  I've never been in the audience of one of Beckett's plays (although I did make a very good Vladimir in college in English class, if I do say so myself), so I'm looking forward to attending.
• A very trenchant column (from Bloomberg, no less!) spelling out  the very clear moral hazards young people face when they go to work on Wall Street.  
• This is a recent discovery, a YouTube series retelling the history of World War I week by week.  What an age of miracles and wonders!
• Finally, for this weeks recipe, I offer the aptly named Corpse Reviver: Take 2 oz cognac, 1 oz Apple brandy, 1 oz sweet vermouth.  Stir, with ice, and strain into cocktail glass.  Smile.