Archive for the ‘Film’ Category

In Case You Missed a Recall

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

…the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s website has a list by product types of items which have been recalled.
Go here—-> Product Recalls

Imagine my surprise to find my much loved portable DVD player on the recall list! It has a bad battery pack which can overheat and explode. There is no replacement because the company, Mintek, is [...]

Interesting Mutations!

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Last year, I grew scallop summer squash, green zucchini, and my old standby, New England pie pumpkins in the garden. Truth to tell, I’m not that big on squash, unless you bread it and fry it, perhaps with some ranch dressing on the side! There was so much, I was chopping up zucchini and [...]

Awesome Farce!

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Earlier this week I found out that one of my favorite films just came out as part of a Jack Lemmon retrospective. It’s “Good Neighbor Sam” from 1964. So I got that baby queued up on Netflix and we watched it last night.
Sam is an all-American everyman; sort of a earlier version of [...]

I’m ready for Possum Day!

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Which was a big holiday for the Clampetts on the Beverly Hillbillies! I went bargin’ hunting again. My big score was a 6 qt Revere Ware Dutch Oven for $2.71! I used to have a 4 qt., but once I left it on the stove too long and turned the bottom into scary ash! After [...]

Pretzel Logic

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Which is the title of an album by Steely Dan. I take it to mean when your thoughts run round and round, twist and turn, and don’t come up with any conclusions.
I just did pretzel logic shopping. I was putting laundry away and realized I had some underpinnings which had reached the truly  funky stage. [...]