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Forever Young

Bob Dylan, childrens book, Forever Young. I did place it on my Amazon Wish List. I need to read it thoroughly before giving it to any child I know. Oblique references to “Lay, Lady, Lay” with a big brass bed? We’ll see. If it makes a child think of the world and his/her place in it, perhaps.

Can we do ten favorite movies next? My brother and I had a competition years ago and we both went way over the limit, but that doesn’t mean you can do so.

If you were stranded on a deserted isle with no-one, a 42″ flat screen TV and electricity and water and food and all the DVD’s in the world, what ten movies would you watch over all others? No. You have to look over the world of movies and choose ten that you can have on your isle. What would you choose?

Just like Gilligan’s TV show a boat will come to take away the other 50,000 movies but for some inexplicable reason, will not rescue you. Even if you just saw the re-runs, why didn’t the Professor and Captain get them out of there? Didn’t Tina Louise need more gilded dresses?

Go for it. It’s a wonderful life, and looks to be a white christmas here, but I have a letter out of Africa from both Meryl Streep and Katharine Hepburn that reminds me of little women and the song that Sam was not to play at Rick’s. The hills are alive with do-re-mi and Thelma and Louise need me to help a young Frankenstein get the flux capacitor working so that Michael J Fox can go back to the future.

I truly, madly, deeply love you for putting up with me these seven months. Please write in. Thanks, Dee and the Tin Man, who has a heart after all

Story

Since I’m between ice packs, I’ll tell you a story. Mom always had a rule that one did not go to the movies on a sunny afternoon. It wastes the day, she said.

So, my youngest sister and I were living in California where it was sunny every day. She came over one afternoon and we decided to go to a matinee. Driving out from the neighborhood we ran into friend Norma. She asked where we were going and one of us blurted out “The mall!” and the other “The beach!” Simultaneously, of course.

Norma said “You’re going to the movies. I’m calling your mother!” Of course we were both adults at the time, well out of college and working.

When I lived in Brooklyn with no air conditioning, sometimes I went to the movies twice on a really hot weekend day. Movies were paid A/C!

So, even the neighbors knew of Mom’s prohibition. Who’re they going to tell now? I have to go get more ice and lie down until I can take more pain medication. Ow.

Cooking at the Movies

OK, favorite movies or scenes that involve food:

– Big Night, with the pasta/potato fiasco
– gnocchi a la cousins Vincent and Mary in Godfather III
– Charles Grodin rhapsodizing on Potatoes Lyonnaise in Midnight Run






Lots of space, folks, just write in!

Tropic Thunder

Packed theater. Funny send-up of Hollywood spoofing Hollywood. Fully deserves its R rating. My review: fun summer movie.

As to criticism of “racism” and of negative connotations of films portraying the mentally challenged, I say no way. Racism is for white Aussie Kirk Lazarus having a skin pigmentation operation so he can play a 1969 Black sergeant and inhabit the role. Disabled people should not boycott the film because rapidly fading action star Tugg Speedman decided to play a “Rain Man” type role to attain Oscar glory. It is a spoof of actors and producers and directors and what they’ll stoop to for glory and the almighty dollar.

We’ve got just a few moments to change and get to a party so have a wonderful Saturday night! Dee

Cowboy Singer

Texas Rancher

I gazed out on seven goats
my wife told me she’s wanting
Grandson spends his time and totes
Branches, weeks belonging

Rancher, farmer, still it’s work
Fences to mend, stock to herd

My years as a dairyman
Are not long forgotten
The ranch is what a man
Does to know that I have gotten

My stripes, earned those
This isn’t poetry, it’s prose

Rancher, farmer, still it’s work
Fences to mend, stock to herd

Now I have beef bulls and cows
No dairying left to do
But running a goat hobby farm
Is not what I aspired to

Rancher, farmer, still it’s work
Fences to mend, stock to herd

Owned by DAC 8/2/08

Please see notes re: The Little Cowboy and references, if desired. No way I’m sending this in to the Cowboy poets for the Lariat Laureate award but I’m OK to put it out in the world through you. Remember it’s my poem and I own it so whoever writes the music, please write in!

This is loosely based on Jim’s Dad, who may or may not like it. Right now it’s too late to check. Anyway Joe, I love you and mean no disrespect to you or Margie. It’s just the way the words went in my mind. Joe, in addition to being a farmer and rancher and Civil War history guru, is also a poet. He has a great son, two of them but I’m only married to one.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend! We went to brunch this morning at ten then had two lovely ladies over for a while so Zoe could jump on them and go crazy, then went to the movies (we saw Mamma Mia and Jim and Trish saw X-Files). Then we went to a Mexican place for late lunch/early dinner and got back at five! Where did the day go?

Mamma Mia!

This morning I let Jim have a lazy Sunday morning and sleep in as he has a crazy week ahead.

He wanted to see Dark Knight but it was sold out for the next two shows and there were long seat-choosing lines so we chose Mamma Mia! I thought it was great and Jim enjoyed it as well. So what if James Bond can’t sing well. There’s only one really bad one where he was forced to go out of his range, but hey, he had the cajones to do it! I give him much credit for that.

If you want a silly summer musical with Meryl Streep and Christine Baranski singing their lungs out and having the time of their lives, this is one to see!