Indeed I did. Wonderful stuff. I recently met him and got his autograph on Fall.
I’d like to add Gravity’s Rainbow to the list. Published in 1973 it technically doesn’t qualify as one of their “classics”, but it’s pretty close. It won all sorts of awards and rave reviews, but I tried twice to read it and it utterly defeated me.
The 1814 Battle of New Orleans is forever memorialized in the 1959 hit novelty song of the same name written by Jimmy Driftwood and sung by Johnny Horton. It was the #1 record of that year, the 1960 Grammy winner for Best Country and Western Recording, and #37 on the all-time Billboard Hot 100 chart, well ahead of…
“More Oregon Trail than D&D...”
“...what sounds like the kind of breathing apparatus that would be attached to an iron lung.”
“...borrowed from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou’s wardrobe...”
“...borrowed from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou’s wardrobe...”
“And this positively infantile preoccupation with bosoms. In all my time in this wretched Godforsaken country, the one thing that has appalled me most of all this this preposterous preoccupation with bosoms.
Fun fact: 20th Century-Fox was formed in 1935 from the merger of Twentieth Century Pictures (founded in 1933) and Fox Film (1915) by Darryl F. Zanuck after he withdrew Twentieth Century from distributor United Artists in a stock dispute.
Umm... I posted this last August:
“...the name... is meaningless and that it was chosen because it could be pronounced in any language.”
Jerry Lewis movies... really???
I’ll just leave this right here.
We had several dogs and cats over the years, and fleas were always a problem. We found that light-based flea traps work a treat. A light attracts them, and they get caught on sticky paper for easy disposal. The light on ours blinks off and on every minute or so simulating movement, which evidently helps attract the…
“If you have time off for the holidays... “
“...its inclusion in Love Actually ...”
This puts me in mind of American actor Wilton Lackaye (1862-1932) who was being honored at a luncheon. The host launched into a lengthy and verbose introduction, then said “And now the brilliant speaker of the evening will give you his address.” Lackaye took the podium and said “My address is The Lamb’s Club, 128 West…