He did not just interview Ford; he interviewed Howard Hawks as well, and wrote the best book ever about the man: Hawks on Hawks. To this day, I always pull that book off the shelf every time I watch a Hawks movie to use as reference.

He is not just still alive, he is “only” 84 years old.  He should be 104 by now.

We stayed in Osaka when we visited Japan in 2006, and I took this picture while there — but I think that this was in Fuji City, not Osaka. Memories fade. . .

So many people are completely ignorant of the genuine old-school hatred between the whitest of the whites. I am a true Scandinavian mongrel, and I am also third & fourth generation American (depending which side of the family that you look at,) so that old feud is quaint to me, but it was very real for preceding…

Logging is actually the most dangerous occupation in America nearly every year in terms of both death & injury, so it makes sense that they just want to spread that to non-loggers.

I try to live by the principle that if there is the potential for a horror movie style accident, however remote, that is a good enough reason not to be there when it happens. 

I drive a company vehicle for work, which means that I almost never speed on the job (I want to keep the privilege, thank you very much) but I will get past any vehicle like that as quickly as I can. That is true of trucks in general, not just of ones with questionable loads. I once had a semi cut me off in traffic,…

He wasn’t. It was a sheet of glass from a truck that cut his head off while he was on foot:

Yeah, Davies is the one who fails to stop it.  I am actually not that huge a fan of the movie myself, so I got that mixed up.

She is a social movie goer, not a movie follower, and had neither read nor heard a single thing about it. Not a history buff, either. She knew it was a war movie and really did not want to go, but had no idea what kind of war movie that it was. She went despite her reservations because her ex wanted her to go. She…

My wife’s ex-husband took her to see Saving Private Ryan in 1998. She is extremely sensitive and cannot handle violence & killing in movies. Interestingly enough, while the whole Normandy landing was awful for her, the thing that really got to her was the slow push in of the knife in Jeremy Davies’ death scene. She…

My mom’s story almost took a darker turn one day after seeing the movie when she was home alone in the kitchen making dinner and cutting things with a chef’s knife. She did not hear my dad come home, and when he innocently walked into the kitchen to say hello, she whipped around with the knife in her hand and missed…

My dad took my mother to see Psycho in 1960, and since then to this very day, she has never taken a shower while home alone again.  

I have exactly zero interest in a big-screen adaptation of the series, but I would follow Michael Pena anywhere. I would love an Ant-Man spinoff featuring only Luis. (Actually, I would dearly love to see a spinoff team up of The Adventures of Luis & Ned, but I am not holding my breath for that one.)

According to ESPN’s numbers people, he hit 18.2 mph as a top speed. Even if that was only for 10 yards of the whole run, that is still pretty damn quick for a 329 pounder. But not really that surprising, since when he does punch through the line, he can be shockingly quick getting to the quarterback.

Holy buckets, do I ever need those Sour Cream & Onion ones. Even if I never actually make them, but rather just look at the package periodically and marvel at it.

Bob Woodward criticizing the usage of anonymity is like Pablo Escobar criticizing drug cartels.

Did the EXACT same thing. Had my heart set on a Fiesta ST, and went to the dealer to try one out, but they did not have one on the lot at that moment. So I sat in a regular Fiesta to see how I fit in it, and could not get the seat back far enough to be comfortable.  Test drove a Focus ST instead, and ended up driving…

I still have friends who maintain that the free market would have solved Jim Crow eventually.  But it is kind of challenging to get them to commit to a timeframe for how long it would have taken. . .