For Early Risers Who Wish That It Could Be Morning All Day
Perhaps we lost more important people in 2017, but am I the only person who misses the “old” TV Batman? The newer Hollywood ones are so dark and sullen.
I miss those great Adam West lines like:
“Catwoman, I find you to be odious, abhorrent and insegrevious!”?
Insegrevious?
This scene from Seinfeld is kind of hard on the postal service, but hilarious nevertheless. Who wouldn’t want a postal route in Hawaii after all?
https://youtu.be/ScM4zk_Fyu0
Perhaps not politically correct these days, but I still find this Cool Hand Luke scene, hilarious. Plus, it has the bonus of the inexplicable and memorable movie line, so expertly delivered by the late George Kennedy:
“Anything so innocent and built like that just gotta be named Lucille.”
After waiting out the longest cold spell that I can remember in our past 15 years as Montanans, the forecast today is for +1!
+1 Celsius!
This would be cause for celebration if this temperature forecast wasn’t accompanied by a Winter Weather Advisory of freezing rain and sleet. But hey, it’s a move in the right direction.
Baby steps.
After all, its only January 18 and it will take lots and lots of baby steps to get back up to a Goldilocks climate.
When I was young I never even looked at the temperature forecast. I think that was true of most northern latitude kids. Temperature was simply a non-factor. As kids, you just do what you are going to do. If your fingers start to freeze, you go inside and warm up for a few minutes than go back out into it. It is only when I got older and had kids of my own that I began to factor in temperature.
I either got wiser or softer. Probably both.
Here’s a short funny video about winter weather forecasting from Environment Canada. Marlene and I could have easily played these parts. Yes, we have grown soft. This video hits a little too close to home.
I am not a fly-fisherman, but this is arguably the most poetic ending to any movie I have ever seen (or book I have ever read). Succinct, moving, deep. Norman Maclean waited until he was 74 years of age to write his semi-autobiographical masterpiece. This gives me hope.
We have all seen the movie, but the ending is worth watching again.
I have always enjoyed, what I consider, the simple brilliance of Seinfeld. Over the years, they seem to have covered every conceivable topic. Here is one of my many favorite clips: