Today's Tids Issue 3,210
Opening Stuff:
On some Fall day mornings
you just have to walk outside to get warm.
Did the World Series
Start yet?, Department:
All of a sudden we are looking at the 7th, winner
take all game of the World Series. It will be a fun atmosphere in the
enthusiastic environment of the Kansas City ball park! San Fran will throw
every pitcher they have into the fray, including the remarkable Baumgartner after
only two day’s rest. The KC outfield trio is exciting and as good as it gets, a
threesome that can move fast, throw strikes and will make plays to keep the Cinderella
team in the lead. (The home team has won the last 9 WS 7th games. SF is 0-4 in
WS 7th Games.) Hey this is
the World Series, the culmination of 162, the grand finale for our the “National Pastime” Championship. It doesn’t
get any better than this…or at least it didn’t in those less frenetic days gone
by.
There is little more relaxing
than walking through pastures with tumbling down fences, endless stone walls,
graying barns with sagging roofs; acres of tan grasses waving in the breeze before gold
and red leaves framed by rich greens of sturdy pines, and nary a human to be
seen. Better for the heart than a defribulator. Aaaaaaaah.
The Question:
One of my favorite actors has been Richard Dryfus ever since
he stepped before the big Hollywood camera with his marvelous wit and screen
dominating presence. Name his breakthrough film and five other of his movies.
The Headlines:
--Consumer Confidence Hits 7 year High; 8.6% Average Q3 Profits
From Corporations Buoy Stocks; Experts Now Saying Stocks Could Ride Out Storms
For Rest of 2014..
--Supply Rocket To International Space Station Explodes Off
Virginia; $3 Billion Missile Destroyed.
--White House Computers Hacked; Homeland Security Is Beefing
Up Protection at Government Buildings.
---Kurds Making progress In Kobane; ISiS Takes Over Oil
Field In Shaer In Central Syria, Killing 30 Regular Syrian Army..
--Villagers Fleeing Hawaii Lava Flow.
--Dem Candidates Running Away fro President Obama As
Election Day Nears.
--New Brown U. Poll Has RI Gov Candidates In Statistical Dead
Heat.
--State Department Memo Says Admin Wants To Bring In
Non-Americans For Ebola Treatment; State Says It Won’t happen.
The Voice,
Department:
Four more contestants
joined the list of those who will compete live for the now premiere singing
championship (Sorry, Idol). Ricky Manning did stop the show with his moving
version of Wrecking Ball, but that only got him 2nd place…which
fortunately led to a steal. I liked him. I also liked the singing of Taylor John
Williams, even though visually I find him uncomfortable, kind of eerie. Mia a
fairly routine screecher who sounds like every other young girl singer beat a
woman with a very nice, unique voice, Allessandra Castronova, who unfortunately
didn’t get stolen. I think Elyjuh Rene is an excellent singer but he put me to
sleep last night. He will be around for another day. Alessandra should have
been too.
American fads
come and American fads go, but this new fascination with beheadings is one I
can do without.
Nurse Kaci
Hickock is becoming annoying.
Let‘s See, the first
College Football Playoff Poll has been released and the SEC is 1,3 and
4 in top four. (The top four at the end
of the season will be in the first ever college football playoff system for a national
championship). How does an essentially SEC playoff (Southeastern University
Florida State is #2) meet the needs and interest of all football fans. Wouldn’t
be better to take another look at all of this recent helter-skelter league
realignment and come up with four strong leagues representing four quadrants of
the USA, with the champions of each playing down to the grand finale’.
Interesectionality is exciting. Same ole’,
same ole’ SEC is not.
You have wonder if
two time Super Bowl winner Ben Rothlisberger would be in the same
conversation with Brady, Manning, Brees
and Rogers if he wasn’t such a creep, occasional amoral lowlife?
I was eating one day
in a Boston restaurant when Richard Dreyfus came in and sat at the table next
to me, about two feet away. I ogled covertly, but let him enjoy is spaghetti
with clam sauce. As he was leaving, and me being your basic star struck
American citizen, I stopped him, saying awkwardly and stupidly, “My children won’t
believe I sat next to you”. He wrote a note: “Believe your father”, Richard
Dryfus. I stuck on the refrigerator at home, andIt worked for a while, until
they were old enough to see through my stories.
I disagree with all
of those who criticized and chortled about a do-nothing Repub Congress. I
say stopping Obama from going berserk is an immense achievement.
The Answer:
Richard Dryfus got in stride with his appearance in the
stepping stone movie for several stars to be like Harrison ford and Ron Howard –
American Graffiti. He broadened his reach into the American public’s hearts with
his performance in Jaws, and solidified it with Close Encounters of the Third
Kind. He won an Oscar (Youngest person ever at the time) for Goodbye Girl and
was nominated for his role in one of my
favorites , Mr. Holland’s Opus. He almost blew his career with nosecandy, smashing
his truck into a tree after a big night with cocaine. But he came back first with
the awful (To me) movie Down and Out in Beverly Hills, followed by the funny
Stakeout and then Stand by Me. He was good in the political face Moon over
Parador.I really liekd him in Tin Man. He movie he was making when he sat next
to mye in Boston was “Who’s Life is It Anyway?”. He has not made many films
since Holland’s Opus, but spent time on the fringes of political activism
including as one of those irrational Hollywood nuts against Bush. But, I still
like watching him act. Always made me smile.
If I seem a little
lethargic today, it’s because I’m still soaking in the beauty of a calm
pasture.
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