On Wednesday night we met Denny for a drink at Pepper Smash and then dinner at Mexican Sugar in Legacy Town Center. Denny and Diana had the crab enchiladas and I had fish tacos – both were delicious. Denny drove to College Station on Thursday for a weekend of soccer championship games with Jack and Mason. It was very nice to get to see Denny twice during his visit to Plano.
On Saturday we went to see the movie “Genius” which is about the relationship between Thomas Wolfe (played by Jude Law) and his editor, Maxwell Perkins (played by Colin Firth). Perkins had previously edited books by Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Thomas Wolfe is a Southern writer but not related in any way to Tom Wolfe of “Bonfire of the Vanities” fame. The movie didn’t get great reviews but we both enjoyed it.
Sunday was Father’s day. Here I am with my loot – Cowboys grilling tools, apron and chef’s hat from Will; Miles Davis art from Campbell, Finn, and Melanie; and a lovely selection of cards.
We tried a relatively new restaurant called Sugar Bacon in downtown McKinney for brunch. The restaurant was very nice with jazz music playing but the food was disappointing – pulled pork eggs benedict had hard yokes and very little hollandaise sauce. Apparently they have some new cooks without appropriate supervision.
Blue Apron meals this week were Peruvian Roast Chicken and Potatoes with gree
n beans and creamy jalapeno sauce (my favorite of the three – the chicken spice rub was delicious); Beef Arepas with pickled onion, avocado and radishes (arepas are flat, round cornbreads); and Maryland-style Cod Cake sandwiches with tartar sauce and red cabbage slaw.
I read about the trial claiming that Led Zeppelin plagiarized the song “Taurus” by Spirit for the introduction to “Stairway to Heaven”. The arguments are interesting and Robert Plant and Jimmy Page ended up winning but if you listen to the Spirit song you can certainly see the basis for the suit – particularly since Spirit was the opening act for Zeppelin on a number of shows. It does seem that there should be some kind of statue of limitations on these kind of cases – doesn’t seem right to bring this up over 40 years after the fact.
I came across a great cover of my favorite Led Zeppelin song, “Going to California”, while I was reading about the trial. It’s done by a group called Pressed Strings, a trio from Maryland.