When she finished her thunder run through my mouth we made my next appointment
and for the first time it was an appointment (January 2021) that would take
place after I retired. When asked what time was best I replied that I didn’t
have anything on my schedule. I kind of liked that. Of course, my Favorite Panamanian
will, I’m sure, by that time have imposed some sort of lien on my time. The old
target rich environment again.
The granddaughters made their usual contributions to the morale department
last evening. The FBR was very excited that the neighborhood bakery had re-opened
and Wingman escorted her there to get one of her signature favorites - a cinnamon
roll. She likes to torture her grandparents with the wide range of sweets she
has for dessert each night knowing we aren’t as capable in that department. My
wife takes particular umbrage. The BRS was moving chairs around the kitchen
during our call so she could, in her father’s words, prepare dinner for the
family. That was probably very interesting. Earlier in the day she gave her
father a thumbs up sign for the first time. She’d done something well and when
my son gave her a thumbs up she replied with one her very own, shocking her dad.
One of those small moments with young children as they consistently amaze as
they develop.
I was back at the movies, sort of, when I finally saw a movie I’d been
meaning to see when at the theater when the pandemic closed everything down.
The Hunt is a very funny, very dark comedy. The premise is a bunch of rich,
very liberal elites set up a hunt for some red state “deplorables”, an update to the most dangerous game. There’s some very funny skewering of both ends of the
political spectrum and I don’t see what all the fuss was about when this first
came out. There are some very good actors involved, including two Oscar winners.
Don’t get too comfortable, as I did, when a recognizable actor appears on
screen because they’re probably about to be added to the body count. I hadn’t
seen the star, Betty Gilpin, in anything but she’s someone to keep an eye on,
very talented with great timing. Don’t watch this if cinematic heads getting blown
off bothers you. It was sneaky fun to see the overblown idiots from both ends of
the political divide get served up though.
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| Next in my Nolan Movie Trek |
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RECURRING
CHARACTERS
BR3
– granddaughter #3, BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel - second
granddaughter; FBR - First Blog Reader
- first granddaughter, ABFA – Amazing
Best Family Athlete = my daughter in law; Wingman – my son in law; Keene
Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school from my home town of Keene,
NH; Soxfather - my brother in law; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Cantankerous Friend – friend since
grade school who likes to argue about everything, poses as radical leftist to
attract women; Pittsburgh College
Roommate – high school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; Deckzilla – our backyard deck which
grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two
close friends of my wife – her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd musquetera
(musketeer); Riggins - also known as
the Grandpuppy, son's dog; PanaGals
– female relatives/friends of my wife from Panama; Panamanian/Latin Mafia – inevitable group of Latino friends my wife
accumulates wherever we have lived & their spouses; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia
member, Favorite Panamanian - the
wife (of course); First Friday –
celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Curbside Girls – close friends of my daughter acquired during her
single days in Brooklyn
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