I found, thanks to a friend, a Giant Book Sale! One of those here for a while stores set up to get rid of discarded remainders from other stores.

Picked up a good book by Marion Meade about Woody Allen called, "The Unruly Life of Woody Allen."

To commemorate the 70th birthday of Woody Allen, the BBC and David Baddiel looks at the early stand up career of the legendary film-maker and what impact Allen's stand up humour has had in the UK. Checkout, "Woody Allen: The Cabaret Years."

Been reading the book everywhere. Took it to Claim Jumpers. Sat alone in a booth with my fantastic Meat Loaf and Mashed Potatoes Dinner reading and taking notes. There's some great things in it like, in 1966 he moves into a six room apartment on 100 East Seventy-ninth Street for $900 a month!!!

Okay, that was '66, but with rent control someone could still be living there at that price!

The buyer of another apartment of Woody Allen’s, priced at $27 million, is Barry Volpert, a retired Goldman Sachs International managing director and partner. A broker close to the deal says Volpert paid about $25 million for the 22-room Georgian townhouse on East 92nd Street and Park Avenue, which Allen bought for $17.7 million in 1999 from investor George McFadden and his wife, Carol.

Look around my place, yeah it's big and it's a few hundred more than $900 but River Park is no Manhattan. Don't know why it fascinates me, but I love reading biographies and finding out what folks paid for on their rents and mortgages.

There was a recent Ghost Hunting show on the Travel Channel and the psychic said that this particular spirit still haunted the castle because he had the property at such a great deal and couldn't see letting it go.