This was my first movie binge weekend in many years.  Before the pandemic, I've seen up to five films in a three-day period.  But in a 26-hour period from Friday night, I actually watched five of them. We are entering the second half of the year, and this weekend is #27.  I'm looking at all the  Box Office Mojo  #1 films of the past 26 weekends, and not one appeals to me. Weeks 24, 25 and 26 were dominated by the animated  Inside Out 2.   Mind you,  Rotten Tomatoes  loved it, with 90 reviewers and 96 audiences ratings.  But it's for kids with their parents. Worldwide Box Office Revenues this year. Inside Out 2   $1.1 billion Dune:  Part 2   $712 million Godzilla x Kong :  The New Empire  $568 million The last films I saw in a movie theater were when  Barbenheimer   opened the weekend of July 21-23 a year ago.  Raked in $511 million worldwide during those days. However, in 2019  Avengers: Endgame  had a world opening weekend of $1.2 billion.  I don't go to comic-book mov

Yesterday, Rubik's Cube being 50 years old inspired me to start today with the  Caesar Salad  being a century old.  More specifically, July 4 was not only Independence Day, but also the birthday of this dish. Invented in Tijuana. But this is an Italian salad, invented by Caesar Cardini.  Tijuana then was a bustling international city with bullfights, mobsters, movie stars and the like. The music being blared might have been Al Jolson's  California Here I Come . That day, the restaurant was overwhelmed by holiday travelers, so he and his brother just tossed some olive oil, egg and parmesan over Romaine lettuce.  Perhaps an anchovy. The Caesar demands innovation, and people who later prepared it also added some Worcestershire, or Tabasco or lemon juice, and perhaps bacon, kimchi and anything an adventurous cook might choose. Thus, the endurance of the Caesar Salad. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, invokes fear, utility, the future and a wide variety of emotions.  However, there is