Cruising World magazine took a lot of shit lately for having named “All Is Lost” as one of the best sailing movies of all time. To its credit, “Captain Ron” also made the top-ten list. ncG1vNJzZmikn6TApq%2FAp6Wopl6owqO%2F05qapGaTpLpwvI6cmKmskZ67br7Op2Siq12nsqK4jKGcZq%2BRqHqnuM6roJ2Z

Do you know who Cato the Elder is? No? Well OK quick history lesson: Rome used to have an enemy south of them on the mediterranean: Carthage. It was a pretty decent place, and they didn’t trifle with any Roman hoo-ha though - so much so that they got into multiple wars with their northern neighbor. Three, in fact. We call these “The Punic Wars”. The third one ended with Rome going total overkill; they razed the city and sold any and all survivors into slavery.

A few days after Walter Becker’s death in September 2017, the Minneapolis radio host Ron “Boogiemonster” Gerber mourned as only he could. He got behind a microphone on a Friday night at community-run KFAI-FM and dedicated an episode of his long-running weekly program to Steely Dan. “Everything I play tonight,” he told the listeners of Crap From The Past, “would not have been possible without Donald Fagen and Walter Becker.” 

Hey paid subscribers, Robin Leach used to end every episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous with the sign-off: “Champagne wishes and caviar dreams.” Well, last night I cooked dinner for the rich and famous — a few celebrity friends who found me via Instagram and who, somehow, enjoy coming to my humble little apartment to eat homemade food — and one … ncG1vNJzZmiZnZbBpsHRoKauqp2awW%2B%2F1JuqrZmToHuku8xop2ibmJa6sa3Gp5xmr5motaa%2FjJqlnWWTlsOqrdFmm6udkaLA

Charles Brandon (1484 – ), one of the greatest noblemen in England and brother-in-law to the king through his wife Mary Tudor, Henry’s sister. A blundering hearty, a big man with a big beard. Six of seven years older than Henry, you are one of the tiltyard stars he looks up to when he is a young lad just taking up dangerous sports. Your relationship with him is warm and brotherly.