Showing posts with label tom skerritt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tom skerritt. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Wednesday's Digressions

Somebody thought one of the greatest westerns ever made needed a reboot with Tom Skerritt starring. Ridiculous.

  • Today is 08/20/2016 and Zac chose and is watching Lawrence of Arabia. Tomorrow, he will be studying Seven Pillars Of Wisdom I am sure.
  • Regardless- he is loving the movie and is asking about the real T.E. Lawrence of whom I know enough to entertain a 10 year old boy as I was already reading about him at that age.
  • When do I tell him about the gang rape of Lawrence when the Turks captured him?
  • The sandwich artist at the Subway we ate at today was as high as a kite.
  • We found 2 Texas brown snakes on a sidewalk at Holland Lake. One was tiny and one was a smallish adult. I am not sure if the larger was the momma, she was a cannibal stalking the smaller one or if their proximity was coincidental. We shooed them off the trail.
  • Predictably I did not have my camera with me (although I picked it up at the house and considered bringing it).
  • While at the park we put 2 grasshoppers on a harvester ant mound and watched the hoppers be dissassembled.
  • It is the little things....
  • A friend has not been seprarated from her hubby for a month and she has had sex with 3 different dudes.
  • Watching LOA's desert scenes gave me a bit of a flashback. It gets so hot in Iraq that with physical exertion you literally cannot stay ahead of your water loss- you will lose more than you can possibly take in. On two different occassions over a 24-48  hour period or less I lost so much weight my clothes no longer fit. My belt was cinched 4 or even 6 inches tighter and my joints ached like I was an 80 year old arthritic coal miners. My boots became 3 sizes too big- honestly, I could feel my feet flopping around in them no matter how much I tightened the laces. As a bonus, during the worst episode - my face looked like a skull and I had coon eyes. That time, we were poisoned at the chow hall. At least 1/4 of my company was laid out with the diarrheas. If you told me I had lost 25 or even 30 pounds over those 24-48 hours I could not have argued.
  • The director of LOA wanted the musical score on the intro and intermezzo to played with a black background to set some kind of tone or something- ridiculous. It is mildly annoying is all he accomplished.
  • Almost any time you overthink something that is otherwise simple- you will come to wrong conclusion.
  • I wrote the notes this post is derived from in pink ink
  • Pink ink- that rhymes.