Today's Tids Issue 5,331
Well, that's it:
What a crazy year! It started off with people running wild and ended with so many hogtied. There were probably more vaccinations in 2022 than in the history of mankind. Money seemed to be no object for anybody even as naysayers were predicting thr end of economy as we knew it. A mad man bombed innocent people and he even found some allies to support him. The cost of everything was on the way to the moon and the government kept sending out money ot help fuel the rocket. The stocks were at all-time highs in the beginning and multi decade lows at the end. A million dollars was sounding more like the prized shiny quarter of my boyhood. We endured supply chain delinking and a particularly egregious midterm election process that began way too early and never seemed to end. It was a year when adjustment was the key word, flexibility became a necessary major talent. But I would sum it all up with the word confusion -- everybody keeps talking about everything but the more I Listen the more I find that nobody knows nothing.
I’m lazing into the end of this year. But I think I slowed down my brain too early. Tidlets, Tidlets where are you?
Walking around town I see people meandering, and I wonder, are they having fun or are they just here because somebody said you gotta go to Newport.
Do they allow loud laughing in Hawaii or just a low ha.
The Question:
I found a list of “Film goer's favorite films for 2022.” Name the top ten
The Headlines:
--WS Looking to End Year on Down Note – Auld Lang Sigh.
--Suspect in Idaho College Murders Arrested in Pennsylvania.
--Putin, Xi Look Towards Closer Ties; Philippine Prez Marcos Jr. to Meet with Xi on Tuesday to Settle Territory Differences.
--McCarthy Struggles to Win Speaker Spot; As an Enticement, McCarthy Offers to Lower Requirements for Ousting Speakers.
-- As Ukraine Struggles to Recover from Largest Bombardment Since Start of War, Russia Launches New Barrage.
--Trump Tax Records Released; Not Much Meat for Anti-Trumps Found
Have you ever noticed that when good times are rolling, everybody looks like a genius.
I have this sense that a lot of people will be having multiple Christmases to make up for those postponed by Covid. That means some people still have a week or two for Christmas shopping.
One day I read that Xi and Putin are in splitsville, and the next I see they are into heavy dating. I really don’t think that China wants a war. But they don’t mind Putin disrupting world harmony
Soaking of China, I hear there are plans in the government back offices outlining a revenge attack on Japan as payback for the Japanese atrocities in China prior to WWII. Some people are really patient.
The Tids ace Music consultant suggests Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, second movement for the ultimate in leaving your troubles listening behind. It feels like a soft foamy cushion.
Amercian politics is just beginning to annoy me a lot. And it just isn’t Frank Santos.
The Answer:
Number Ten is Guillermo Del Torio’s Pinocchio. Now working up to One we have Tar, The Fablemans, The Beauty and the Bloodshed, The Banshees of Inisherin, RRR and Aftersun. The top three are, Argentina 1985, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, and number one – Everything everywhere all at once. Top Gun: Mavrick is number 11. Glass Onion is #17. I frankly haven’t heard of almost all of them.
Have a great New Year’s Eve weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!
