Both good reads. I’ve played the “what if” game many times. Have to agree I wouldn’t be here if I’d switched tracks. All I know is, it’s good now and that suits my aspirations now.

That’s a good spot to be in. Relish it — you deserve it man!

goodam i loved that mofo. funny thing is, in those days i didn’t appreciate or maybe notice that i was watchin’ a classic.
nowadays, i know it when i see it. very recent memory is Fury Road, of course. also was Grand Budapest and Birdman. also was PSH’s last movie that i knew he was the star of: “A Most Wanted Man”. i don’t know how this works, but i think it wasn’t mentioned at the Oscar’s because it’s a Brit movie. it won some kind of BAFTA award, i’m sure.

So many movies we watched and loved as kids are classics now. That’s because we all have good taste. :D

I watch probably more TV series than movies…thanks to Netflix and their kin getting rid of the commercials. Mad Men just ended. I’m gonna miss that show.

she’s a beauty. i forget, she’s ornamental, right?

Ya, you wouldn’t want to eat that little black orb. I don’t know if this variety of nightshade is poisonous so we don’t take any chances. :D

that is a no shit hard rockin’ piece of work with something to say in the lyric

I remember seeing her for the first time in the Blues Brothers. Completely blew me away.

are these the kind people eat?

Yep, I take two or three stems inside and put them on tators or scrambled eggs.

the stem looks like what i know as chives. what about the flower? do they render or mix or is it not food?

It’s usually considered best to eat chives before they get flowers, when they look more like grass. They’re more tender then. But as far as I know the flowers are edible too.

Are you saying my chives don’t look like grass?

Nope. I would never talk smack about a man’s chives.

Just messing with ya. And don’t try to peek at my hillbilly’s either. ;-)

saw something about Gavin McInnes. there were some interesting quotes, including the irrepressible, “politically active in the Batman community”.

people who’ve known me a long time remember me co-opting the phrase, “Wendy, I’m home.” I just loved it. It became a catch phrase in my personal vernacular. The way he said it like she was supposed to be happy about it. As he’s chopping down the door. BIG SMILE. I’ve under reported my sharing Frank’s feelings for this classic. I read the book as an adult and it creeped me out. In retrospect, it’s about alcoholism and it’s co-conspiracies. The soundtrack, especially at the beginning, is the definition of eerie music. I understand that SK did not appreciate the Kubrick feel for the movie but I have to disagree. I read the book first and when the movie came out it was exactly as I’d pictured. RED RUM!!!

I can never get enough of the red rum.