Wednesday's Digressions

Chorizo  and Mozzarella stuffed smoke jalapenos over black beans. Have this with chorizo cheese fries at Tequilas in Weatherford and you will be good to hook! 

• The Brain That Wouldn't Die.
• Most recent brain rotting, so bad it's good movie I've watched.
• So over the top and cheesy in every way- they had to know what they were doing but, how could they have pulled it off if they were trying to make it that bad? Very cute movie anyway- you can find it on hulu.com. It would be a great sick day movie.
• Share it with someone you love
• or hate.
• As a nurse you'll find it more true in some settings than others but, I can assure you I've worked areas in nursing where patient after patient (in fact the bulk of the patient population) is only there in front of you due to a history of personal choices they've made from substance abuse to failure to manage chronic disease processes to simply not eating like they have some common sense.
• I know nurses who flat refuse to waste their breath educating patients about exercise, nutrition etc.. Generally speaking, humans won't change- they will die before they commit to any type of change.
• Saw an ad for a cat appetizer the other day (no not a tasty treat made of cats for humans) it was an appetizer made for cats by humans. It was sea bass and shrimp flavor in a delicate broth. Can't decide if that demonstrates how awesome or pathetic we are. We have the extra time, energy and money on our hands to be able to worry about the delicateness of our cats appetizers broth while we obliviously spend billions on our pets every year as the world falls down around our shoulders, people on this planet literally starve to death and die of easily preventable (and curable) diseases?
• Another way to look at this: I've never eaten sea bass in my life and the expense of shrimp is a consideration that makes it a rare treat.

Monday's Missives

• While looking for a movie on .99 cent day I saw that guy Toby Keiths movie Beer For My Horses on the rack.
• Instant deflation.
• Everybody loves the patriotic songs of both he and Lee Greenwood.
• Except the troops.
• I promise you.
• Bought the little ones a ginormagantuan, megalithic Little Tikes playground set with 2 slides a tunnel and plenty of climbing features.
• Hero.
• Zac is unsure of the big slide still.
• Never knew any of my great grandparents.
• I would be a garbage man and ride on the back of the truck and pick up the trash in a minute.
• In fact- it's still a back burner type goal I truly intend to make happen when the time is right.

Mondays Movie Missives

• Professor Hobby: Tell me, what is love?
• Secretary: Love is first widening my eyes a little bit and quickening my breathing a little and warming my skin and touching...
• Professor Hobby: ...and so on. Exactly so. Thank you, Sheila.
• A.I. a movie that created a lot of buzz and spawned a lot of ethical debate is now nearly ten years old. I know a lot of younger movie loving people who haven't seen it but, I remember it as one of those movies you simply could not escape hearing about- the debate about the ethics of human esqe robotics was as pervasive as was the question whether A.I. was the best or worst movie ever made. I remember Mark Davis talking about it for his entire show one day after seeing it and speaking of it often for days later.
• The Big Fish and American Beauty: excuse me if I say these are two movies you simply cannot begin to fully appreciate unless you are at least a late 30s to early 40s male.
• The English Patient: the best most misunderstood movie ever made.
• I don't think I breathed for the first 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan and still get misty when I see it- OK I admit it, I bawl like a baby.
• Still impressed with how good animated movies can be today while being smart enough for grown ups to enjoy and safe for little ones. I think Lion king started that concept off with traditional type animation and Toy Story with computer animation.
• How can Lonesome Dove be one of the best westerns ever made and all the others based on books by the author using same writers etc. be among the worst?
• Tombstone- the best western ever made.
• High Noon still blows me away every time I see it- you can almost feel the knots in Gary Coopers characters stomach as he goes out to face certain death but, he faces it.
• The Wild Bunch: the good guys don't always win, the bad guys aren't always all bad, hero's can die like dogs face down in a dirty street, when people die violently it's often with blood everywhere their guts hanging out begging for mercy not spinning around, saying,"They got me Johnny tell Mary Sue I love her..." and holy smokes it was made in 1969! John Wayne hated Sam Peckinpah for this film saying publicly it, "destroyed the myth of the Old West".
• A favorite John Wayne story: "The evening before a shoot he was trying to get some sleep in a Las Vegas hotel. The suite directly below his was that of Frank Sinatra (never a good friend of Wayne), who was having a party. The noise kept Wayne awake, and each time he made a complaining phone call it quieted temporarily but each time eventually grew louder. Wayne at last appeared at Sinatra's door and told Frank to stop the noise. A Sinatra bodyguard of Wayne's size approached saying, "Nobody talks to Mr. Sinatra that way." Wayne looked at the man, turned as though to leave, then backhanded the bodyguard, who fell to the floor, where Wayne knocked him out by crashing a chair on top of him. The party noise stopped."
• Lifeboat was made in 1944 and is the story of 9 people in same after their ship is sunk by a U boat. The Uboat was also sunk during the engagement and the captain of it is picked up by them. Two hours or whatever of people in a B/W movie in a small boat in an empty ocean and it's riveting. Tallulah Bankhead practically carried the movie.
• She was known for a feud with Bette Davis leading to this cute quote, "Don't think I don't know who's been spreading gossip about me . . . After all the nice things I've said about that hag [Bette Davis]. When I get hold of her, I'll tear out every hair of her mustache." Regarding sex,"I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw." About men and booze, "My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine". Education," I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education ." On any potential husband, "No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry."
• She died in December 1968, her last words were ,"Codeine... Bourbon"
• Supposedly Red dawn is going to be remade with the flashpoint being Eastern Europe instead of the US. I hope that won't be like when Tom Skerritt disgraced er, I mean remade High Noon.
• Zombie movies: can't get enough of them, good or bad- for that matter, the worse they are the better I enjoy them.
• Any scary movie that effectively combines humor with fright factors is always way scarier than straight up slasher movies.
• If I had the means Casablanca would play in a loop on a monitor mounted on the wall like a picture frame in my house.
• I tend to like movies and call them favorites if at first I thought it would be a stinker but, turned out to be a good movie, I'm unsure if this is psychological.
• It doesn't bother me at all to go to a movie alone.
• My nephew auditioned for a Clint Eastwood movie.
• My dad was actually in a coffee commercial with a bunch of folks from my hometown of Decatur TX. I think the premise was they would do anything for a cup of that coffee and they were shown in the country making an epic walk toward town. There were giant planters, benches and some other props I don't recall left behind that were there for years on the square afterward. I think the brand was Kava or something like that.
• I have been on television news either 3 or 4 times.
• No, none involved high speed chases.
• Once for Boy Scouts, once at a job and a couple of other times I don't recall.
• My friends know I can predict with approximately 90% accuracy whether a movie will stink or not by the trailer and/or cover summary.
• It's like a superpower that I must use for good and not evil.

Fridays Dispatch

• "This is a lovely king-size leather bed from Restoration Hardware which we paid just over $4,000 including shipping & tax... Our 'designer' says it's got to go and be replaced with a four-poster." craigslist ad



• I've been looking for cheap furniture for my new house.



• I don't even know who you are but, I hate your guts.



• Would like to learn how to build a rocking chair and I probably will soon (at least try).



• Bought 22 movies for 60 bucks at a pawnshop today. Somebody must have switched over to Blu Ray and sold 2- 300 to the shop (all sort of same type, excellent condition, some still have the guys name on the back.)



• Remember when if you did business with a pawnshop it was about a step up from conspiring in an organized crime deal? It's so widely understood they're a place for deals now, I routinely see stuff selling for well over what you could buy it new.



• Your shopping hint for the day: when doing business with pawnshops and want to buy jewelry- knock at least 30% off the price and make an offer.



• There was an old code on their stocks price tags no longer in use you could use to figure out how much a lot of shops had in the item. It went like this: MARYLOUISE- M was one, then all the way up to E as zero with X as a decimal point. AEXEE would mean they had 20 dollars in the item. (20.00)



• It's been 15+ years since I've thought about that but, it was something like that and back in the day I could read them faster than the workers. To get the deal you had to let them make at least about 15%.



• I've never pawned anything in my life though.



• I think I've mowed my lawn 4 times already this year and I've yet to put out fertilizer.



• There's a battery powered riding mower out now.



• I'm not even sure how I ended up with the pic of the woman above but, isn't she pretty and intriguing?


• I think maybe she's the ultra rich, non crazy, no baggage having, island, giant ranch, giant yacht and and Learjet owning, my kids adoring, Sunday School teaching, Kama Sutra devotee-ing, sex crazed woman who sent me an email telling me of her infatuation with me and requesting a meeting.


• If it is- write me back honey, my computer crashed and I lost your information.

Missives: Special Bonus Edition

Our ride for the zombie apocalypse- you get shotgun

• In the news: "Man bites off end of own penis. Police found him after receiving an anonymous tip"




• If I'm lyin' I'm dying- that's what it said.




• My present patient played golf well into her 80s.




• There's a line to a song that says," Cinnamon and sugary and softly spoken lies- you'll never know just how you look in other peoples eyes." The last part is so true and such a shame sometimes because the world might be a better place if we could every once in a while.




• The singers dad was MR. Peppermint.




• Zombie movies are making a big comeback and I couldn't be happier.




• I'm telling you- you'll be glad to know me when Hell is full and the dead walk the earth and I know exactly what to do.




• I could never have anything to do with a woman who wears open toe shoes and hose.