Movies for bingeing…from a different tack.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Hairspray
Serial Mom
Heavy Metal
Bladerunner
My Girl
Lucas
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Marley & Me
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The original Ninja Scroll movie from 1993 was one of the most violent, gory, and insane shows I had ever seen. A friend had a VHS copy that got passed around over and over because everyone was obsessed with it.
Its licensing rights have been in streaming hell for the past decade, but I found my old DVD copy in a box downstairs today. Happy to report that it’s still as gloriously depraved now as it was 30 years ago. lol
Today’s retro movie with the kids was “The Mask”. Yep, still hilarious. One of the twins literally fell of the couch because he was laughing so hard 
Never realized how much smoking there was. Nearly every scene has someone with a cigarette. Funny how that never even used to register and now it just looks so…weird.
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As our whole family came down with the summer cold, we ended up watching “The Princess Bride.”
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The change in smoking protocol and acceptability over my lifetime is astonishing.
When I was young in the late 50’s early sixties, it FELT like everyone smoked everywhere. Now, I do not recall the last time I actually saw anyone smoke (I see occasional vapers, but never anyone actually smoking.)
The first time I took a commercial airlines flight (SLC to Denver) was 1974 (I was 18), and I’m certain, I was the only person NOT smoking on the flight. I coughed for a week afterward.
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Final climb in today’s Stage 15 of le Tour de France | Live stream
final climb is Hors catégorie (HC ) | Live Tracker
With today’s 1’12" (1’08"+04"bonus), Pogacar leads the Dane by a massive 3’09" in the GC
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The stages yesterday and today were both fabulous. I’m interested in learning more about Matteo Jorgensen, the young US rider who grew up in Boise. He did a nice job today setting the pace for Vingagaard’s team.
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He’s had a great 2024 since moving to Visma.
procyclingstats.com page
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Here’re some articles on Jorgenson from VeloNews.
As you can see, he’s no one hit wonder. He’s growing into a proven commodity. Whether he wins the Tour or any other Grand Tour is yet to be seen, but he’s got the talent and pedigree it seems.
An addition from USA Cycling:
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On the way back from my Great Britain trip watched this:
It really could have been a great flick with that cast but ended up being kinda lame. Still a decent watch if you are bored and have an interest in Scotland/England history.
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I’m re-watching “The World’s Fastest Indian” for the first time in a very long time, and when this scene hit the screen, I was certain it was Echo Utah. A quick google search did not note credits for Echo in the film, but I’d bet my life this is the old highway (car driving toward the west from Echo, headed toward Henefer, just North of the tracks, looking east toward the bridge that the old tracks take to go over Echo Canyon and on toward the east side of Echo reservoir, and eventually into Coalville…
Am I wrong? Here’s the link with the video at the Echo time.
Literally just left of the scene in the video at this time, is the great old historical Echo church/school:
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Just to cheer you up I just saw limited series of the final book of the Thomas Cromwell saga is coming out this summer back with Damien Lewis and Mark Rylance will be here soon. Can’t wait.
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I remember when airlines had smoking sections. A pretty absurd idea, because the smoke didn’t follow the rules and stay in that section.
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On a lark, we watched HItchock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” which I’d heard about but never seen. A little dated but great cinematography and a good Hitchcockian story. James Stewart shows some enjoyable acting chops.
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I recently watched Amiel’s “The Man Who Knew Too Little”. This too is a little dated, which is a parody of TMWKTM. Bill Murray’s acting was priceless, funny and entertaining. He was deeply enthralled into his acting stride.
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I am glad you raised this because I was hitting reply to do just that. One of my top ten movies. Alfred Molina is tremendous in his part and the bumbling henchman trying to play kerplunk, just side splitting.
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I know football season is about to arrive when I see my first 9:00 pm raccoon sightings on my backyard critter cams. 
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Me too!
And for the record, we had our first sighting, in the grape vines, on the side of our house, unseasonably early this year, on the evening of August 11th. That said, the grapes are ripe early this year from the warmer weather, and they won’t be hanging out in your yard anytime soon, as they are still eating our grapes. 
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