40/60

Some of my favorite memories as a kid was spending that week to 10 days in the summer at the Jersey Shore. We had fun at the Shore long before there was Snookie, spiky hair and gyming and tanning and laundry. When my parents announced that they wanted to spend a week with us in a house on a beach somewhere for their 40th  I was glad to share that type of experience with the next generation of Littles.  We ended up spending a week at Mission Beach San Diego a block from the beach. I'll write as much as I can remember at this point, but in the meantime, here is the flickr album from the trip:

http://flic.kr/ps/Ari27

Who have I seen

No one surprisingly. Everyone must have moved back to New York.

What am I reading

I have accomplished my goal of not reading as much this year. My last book of the year ties into the place that I work, which has recently finished its work to input German auction catalogs from sales during the Nazi era. (If you haven't liked us on facebook you should, sometimes we do pretty awesome things) The book I am reading is Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert Edsel. Also soon to be a sony picture release in a couple weeks. (perhaps, the date was pushed back)

I really recommend reading it, a great primer of the American involvement in WWII, but also covers a little known topic of the amassing of wealth and culture by the Nazi party by unethical means.(ex. That art found in jewish homes was considered "abandoned" and up for grabs if they fled Germany or sent to concentration camps.) It is written pretty cinematically and I am interested to see how it turns out on film, there are long stretches of the book where the soldiers of the monuments division are alone working for weeks and months but the movie looks like it is an ensemble cast.

Last night I was in a discussion, with some friends who work "in the industry",  about how studios are doing much better jobs of adapting movies for film. What do you think?