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  1. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    This morning’s news carries a remembrance of Ron Popeil, who died yesterday at age 86.
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A healthy population of ’em? I had stored dry pet food in the garage, until it became mouse food. Now I keep it in the house, where the cat patrols. No evidence of mice since.
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Just looked into whether the almond extract in what remains of the whipped cream in the bottom of the bowl poses a hazard to our dogs and cat. Much contradictory “information,” some of which has to be inaccurate. The information superhighway is full of potholes. Proceed with caution.
  4. tonyb

    School Sandwiches

    I have difficulty articulating just why I couldn’t stomach Spam when I was a kid, and why I seem to have outgrown that aversion, although I’m still no great fan of it. I find it markedly more palatable fried. And this from a kid who loved liverwurst, until one day in the third(?) grade when I...
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    We recently bought, at considerable expense, a new central A/C condenser (the boxy unit on a pad on the outside of the house). The one it replaced was new less than a year before we bought this place (autumn of 2015) and would have been under warranty had the previous owners registered the...
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When a person has nothing to say, the best thing to say is …
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I beg to differ. I’ve been acquainted with both types and find they have more than a little in common. There is no “in fact” in your criticism. It’s merely your anecdotal observation, as is mine. “Inflicting self-righteousness” indeed. Oh, and you might wish to brush up on just what a mixed...
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ It was decades ago when the attitudinal kinship between back-to-the-land hippie types and right-wing survivalist types became apparent.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Prevagen, Focus Factor, copper-“infused” socks, etc. And then there are “alternative” treatments that perhaps might be of some benefit, but for which wildly extravagant claims are made. Cannabis extracts come to mind. A New Yorker cartoon from 20 or more years ago, when efforts to legalize...
  11. tonyb

    Movie Theater Movie Palace Ephemera

    I’ve bought framed “art” (to be generous) just for the frame many times, thinking that at some point I’ll have something more to my liking to put in it. I have several such frames in the basement utility room.
  13. tonyb

    Movie Theater Movie Palace Ephemera

    Yup, such has been my experience. The industry went to the one-inch-shorter standard quite some time ago and the cheap frame manufacturers followed suit. After all, no point in mass-producing something for which the market is small and steadily shrinking. The 27 by 41 size apparently wasn’t...
  14. tonyb

    Movie Theater Movie Palace Ephemera

    As you probably already know, there’s ALWAYS a digital coupon at Michael’s. Just ask your smartphone. We’re decidedly maximalist in our approach to interior decor around here. It’s not an exaggeration to note that there are at least a hundred graphical elements on the walls, most of it framed...
  15. tonyb

    Movie Theater Movie Palace Ephemera

    Back in the late-’60s my brother came upon a large pile of posters promoting rock ’n’ roll shows at a local theater. They were mostly done in what we have since come to call a “psychedelic” style — neon colors, “melting” lettering, surreal scenes. We covered the bedroom walls with the things...
  16. tonyb

    Movie Theater Movie Palace Ephemera

    It’s mildly annoying that the industry switched from 27” by 41” sheets to 27” by 40”. The one-inch shorter frames are inexpensive and easily available. Not so with the 41-inchers. So finding frames for the older posters is usually a more costly proposition, although I have found them pretty...
  17. tonyb

    Movie Theater Movie Palace Ephemera

    I have a weakness for ephemera as well, some of it movie related. Among the magazines and paper advertising are a few movie posters, including a 46” by 64” “French grande” occupying a large section of wall in the short-term rental unit. What’s the trade lingo for the more recent 27” by 40”...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My cousin Bob, who along with his loving husband has been our houseguest for the past few days, had the same suggestion, with which I, a casual student of the game’s early history, heartily concurred. We also agreed that Washington Football Team is a perfectly good name for that city’s entry...
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Such is life in an imperfect world. If not for the corrosive deicers more vehicles would get lost to collisions, which is the least of the problem, really. Injuries, some “serious,” some deadly, would be higher, too.
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I’ve never lived in a place that required vehicle safety inspections as a condition of licensing. Emissions, yes, but no one is checking for bald tires and metal-on-metal brakes (with brown brake fluid) and rusted-out structural members.
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ What kinda car? How many miles on it?
  23. tonyb

    The ultimate bad-guys of cinema-history?

    Among the great movie characters. Godfather II is in most ways a better movie than the first one. The original is more lush, but the story in II is more credible, and the characters — especially Michael and Fredo — are more developed. Just love the scene in Michael’s office at the Tahoe...

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