I'll
Buy Bock
 This
past weekend Beloved Girlfriend wanted to watch her
favorite movie of all time, "Serenity", and I
wanted to watch my personal favorite, "The Music
Man". So we compromised and watched
the original "Terminator". I got
old-time, hometown values and she got hunky
guys parading around in the buff. It's win-win.
However, choosing this particular film resulted in a surprising bit of synchronicity.
It begins with two friends that run a nearby
business called "Broadway Beer & Wine". (Ask for the
10% discount and the under-the-counter apple-tinis).
Although it'd be ideal if they
were situated right in the middle of something so
glamorous as the theatre district, they instead are
simply on Broadway Boulevard in Garland, Texas. Whoo-hoo.
This past weekend, as BG and I were there selecting
a bottle or two of something inevitably inexpensive,
I
suggested
that they change the name of the operation to something
more sophisticated, like
"Liquor
Junction".
"Imagine the radio ads", I said. "When
your lady has a thirst for something spirited, Liquor
Junction!"
They failed to see the humor.
When BG and I returned home I fired up the Google
Machine just to see if anyone was actually dumb enough
to have
used that name and, by dawg, someone did! Liquor Junction
in Big Bear, California.
So BG and I settle down to watch the Terminator for
the first time in YEARS and it's just as much fun as
we remembered. Boobs, blood, naughty
words, the whole R-rated schmear, just like gawd intended. Except for
the all-too-80s hairstyles on the ladies and the occasional AMC Gremlin
sitting curbside the movie still looks quite contemporary-ish.
Finally comes the part of the movie where our cyborg
pal tracks down Sarah Connor by paying a rather unpleasant
visit on her mother in...
(wait for it)
Big Bear, California!
Yeah, Big Bear's got it goin' on.
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 But
wait! There's more!
I'd recently heard
scuttlebutt that all zippers bear
the
letters YKK,
which
is short for the "YKK Group", a Japanese
manufacturing consortium. So I grab my cargo pants
and give the
little pull tab a close look. There were, indeed,
three letters on the tab but
it didn't say YKK.
Instead
it read "TEX", which just happens to
be Beloved Girlfriend's beloved nick-name. (Long
story.)
Yes, my girlfriend's name is on my pants, which
is probably as it should be. Not near so bad as
my testicles
in her purse or my home
address
tattooed
on her ass but still amusing.
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One last filmic note...
the movie studio that produced the film considered
having O.J. Simpson play
the title role but decided against it as they didn't
feel he'd be believable as a
killer.
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 Now
a final political/economic note:
On Friday Standard & Poor's downgraded
the U.S. credit rating from AAA to an AA+. This
is not quite as disastrous as it sounds as S&P games
the system for its own benefit,
but the one thing the media seems to be failing to
report
is
that
S&P
is
putting
the
full
blame for the downgrade, and rightly so, on the shoulders
of the GOP. Page four of their report reads as follows:
"Republicans
in the
Congress
continue
to
resist
any measure that would raise revenues."
Just thought you ought to know when the Dow Jones
tanks on Monday morning.
=Lefty=
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 "We're
going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs." -
John Boehner, February 10, 2011.
The following is #63 in a list of Republican
job creation activities
since they gained control of the House in 2011. None,
sad to
say,
have
yet to result in one, single new job.
(63) 8-8-2011: The GOP is on vacation but
their henchmen continue to usurp the voting
process by sending out phony
absentee ballots.
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 And
what manner of lie is Fox News spewing today? They're
claiming the Obama Stimulus cost
taxpayers over $200,000
per job. Not even close.
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