I think saying "wicked cool" is wicked cool.

Nerd fantasies are the best fantasies

for the long walk home...

Quentin Tarantino: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown Stanley Kubrick: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, The Shining John Ford: The Searchers, Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance John Huston: Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Maltese Falcon, Moby Dick Joel and Ethan Coen: The Big Lewbowski; Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Fargo Stanley Kramer: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World; Judgement at Nurmberg, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Billy Wilder: Sunset Blvd. Some Like It Hot, The Apartment David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago, Bridge on the River Kwai Norman Jewison: In the Heat of the Night, The Cincinnati Kid, A Soldiers Story Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Raging Bull

I'll bet this one is probably claiming Hamas are the victims too now.

I only buy furniture at antique shops and swap meets now. Especially upholstered furniture. Even if I have to spend a few hundred dollars reupholstering something, the "bones" of older furniture is sound and solid. Everything today made in China is crap.

And I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonopah Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made Driven the backroads so I wouldn't get weighed And if you give me weed, whites and wine And you show me a sign And I'll be willin' to be movin'

... his red laced shiny boots

Never saw her butt, and she for certain had a 'but-her-face' thing going on. A long time ago my mother said Ruth Buzzi poached a parking space away from my mother at a May Co store parking lot. She said Buzzi came down the wrong way and just swooped in. My mother yelled at her---so that is my best Buzzi story. Laugh-In was great. That and the Smothers Brothers was our introduction to the counter culture before our parents actually caught on. I'm sure Betty White was a wildcat in the sack back in the day. Billy Barty, haven't heard that name in decades. He got a lot of work back in the day as pretty much the only little person actor for decades. I think I remember he even had a kids TV show at some point. BTW, Ditto jeans could make any woman have a nice looking butt. They were like some kind of magic they were.

no, the beast was only...

Wow! I'm impressed. Walmart stepping up their game. I wasn't shopping yesterday, but walked into one of the rare real English pups here in SoCal last night for some clam chowder and onion rings on a chilly evening--- along with shot of Jameson and Guinness chaser. And when I walked in the Animals House of the Rising Sun was playing, and that got me into a great mood.

.... unless you are a clown

Yesterday I spent $400 at the local See's Candy Store for gift boxes. For those who are not aware, See's Candies are the Los Angeles / west coast version of Willy Wonka; the company is 100 years old, and if you ever walk into a See's Candy store you will be unable to resist spending a lot of money.

This made me laugh. But it reminded me why back in my day, and for my age, we always considered the band KISS to be a complete attention grabbing rock and roll joke. Gene Simmons---- the Bozo the clown of rock and roll. So who were the stars who were on that poster Strider? I see Florence Henderson, Tim Conway, Donny and Marie, and is that "Witchy Poo" from the Sid and Marty Croft kid's show? So incredibly ridiculous, that it is kind of funny when you think about it. And BTW, Paul Lynde was a wonderful comedic character actor. We all knew he was gay even before it was okay to admit it in Hollywood.

Joaquim Phoenix as Napoleon is about as ludicrous as having "Ludicrous" playing the part of Richard the Lionheart.

If there are any Icelandic women who are displaced by the volcanic events in Iceland, I have plenty of room in my home for them to shelter for as long as they wish.

The Twilight Zone.... no, really-- the actual show, and not just the daily world news

The Warren commission was a major failure, but that did not mean that there was some vast assassination conspiracy. Government is always inept.

New hats and fancy robes

The bullet was not "magic" The shot (Oswald's ability) was not impossible to make with a little skill matched with a little luck .... slow moving CONVERTIBLE car below People in the plaza who heard shots from different locations is easily explained by acoustics that occur in a cityscape with concrete buildings etc. The entry wound on JFK's scull was from behind, blowing out his brain matter to the front, and his head jerked backward as a result. In other words, ballistics, and effects from gun shot wounds are NOT as people see them in the movies. Ruby was simply an outlier to the event, he was well known to the local police and was able to walk in without any trouble. A major failure in police security, keystone cop level failure. In fact, lots of failures. President in a convertible. Failure to secure the parade route. Massive chaos in the police/FBI response. FBI was aware of Oswald's history, but allowed him to slip off their radar, and a huge embarrassment to the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover; any supposed cover up was simply them trying to mitigate their obvious failures before the assassination. Warren Commission were bozos, but which government commissions are not bozos? The event made for great book and movie sales. Anyone can come up with a "theory" and make a lot of money selling that to a hungry stupid public.