New Year’s weekend in DC: went to Pho 75 in Arlington for pho. Why are all DC-area pho restaurants numbered? There’s Pho 14, and even Nam Viet calls itself Pho 79. Also went to the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City; Eastern Market, only to find it was closed (always call ahead!); and Great Wall supermarket in Falls Church.
But the best thing of the new year was discovering an old treasure: watching The Age of Innocence on Netflix streaming. There was one shot by Scorsese that blew my mind, composed almost like Seurat’s Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte. The ending, sage about the passing of time and about the collisions and separations of happiness and passion, was a wonder.