Mr. Moo!!!
Miss Pearly-Whirly. So-called by me because she is never in focus because she never. stops. moving.
Rocco, the sweetest cat ever!
Nieces and nephews take all forms…
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Signs of the time…
There’s something weird going on with the physiology of this guy…
Just saying hi to one of the neighbors…
Halloween has gotten a tad more…intense…since I was a kid…
This is more my speed…
Keeping an eye or two on the Halloween goings-on…
Not sure what’s going on here, but my guess is, they’ve overwatered their lawn…
Nevermore…
“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
‘Tis the season…
Escape from the air show…
Riding out the accursed Great Pacific Airshow in a park far away.
Alfie, the aggressive picknicker says, “Make me a plate, human!”
A wee bit of fallish color.
She’s thinking this air show avoidance thing ain’t half bad.
Beware of giant spiders…
It’s that time of year, and there’s not always going to be a superhero and first responder around to help you.
October starts with a melting moon!
‘Tis the season!
2024 Movie Diary, Part 14
40. GRIZZLY (1976)
A gloriously inept rip-off (almost scene-by-scene) of “Jaws.” Truly laughably stupid in ever way. The better you know that shark flick, the funnier it is.
Verdict: I watched it with the assistance of the guys from RiffTrax. Here, check it out for yourself!
41. MY MAN GODFREY (1936)
I’ve never been as fond of this as many are, but William Powell can do no wrong, and he’s miraculous in it. Everyone else was too grating for me to care about, even the normally lovable Lombard.
Verdict: See it for Powell. He is, as always, a complete and utter joy and makes the movie, as he does every movie he’s in.
42. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962)
What a freaking masterpiece this is. Dazzling visuals, intelligent and nuanced writing, a magnificent score, and superb performances. I know I’m supposed to revere Gregory Peck’s Oscar winning turn in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” but I don’t. Peter O’ Toole’s performance is imbued with genius and HE WAS ROBBED.
Verdict: One can’t help but not, in contemporary reviews, that one is supposed to be all bothered about “race-swapping” in the casting of this film (e.g. Alec Guinness playing an Arab). But since race-swapping is everywhere nowdays in all manner of productions, all I can say is…just shut up. Guinness is terrific and so is Anthony Quinn. Deal.
Fall color…
And that’s it. No kidding. Good-looking leaf, though.
The last sunflower bites the dust…
Savagely beheaded and consumed by a squirrel.