Tomorrow's Sunday

Indiana - Oregon, wow. Cignetti, Mendoza, Hoover, CFB has changed so much since my UF days 1953-57, like professional football more an industry than "our local team" of guys you see in class with everybody else. IDK, for school spirit, maybe drop back to high school football?. It's just as well to be ninety! I was always more a Buick fan than a baseball basketball football fan anyway, nomesane?

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Friday evening: pizza at Enzo's then home to 7H for movie night. Enzo's is tops for pizza, it's right down the street, I can see it from my study/office/den, and their eggplant dishes are superb. For an "appetizer" yesterday we had the eggplant: three slices of breaded and fried eggplant with cheese dripped on top and tomato sauce all around it; one slice for each of us. The next Time we go to Enzo's I may just get the eggplant and let the pizza go. I used to get an "individual" thin crust pizza with double anchovies and mayo on the side, along with the iceberg lettuce wedge, also superior. But it got to where when they brought out my pizza with anchovies and mayonnaise the entire kitchen staff came out to see if it was the same kook again. Eventually I shifted from bizarre to ubiquitous. For breakfast this morning I may heap my leftover bit of plain pizza with anchovies, and the pantry is always loaded with Hellmann's.

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But last night's movie. I like serious war films, WW2 and WW1 movies, not Hollywood films with Americans playing German roles, not Korean War and never ever Vietnam War movies. And I like some dystopian stories - books and films. So, I'd never watched "Apocalypse Now" and when it showed up on the reel of available free movies I clicked on it.

It'd never occurred to me that "Apocalypse Now" was not a story like "The Road" or "Earth Abides" or "Brazil" or "On The Beach"  or "The Day After" - never having paid any attention to it, I didn't know it was a weird adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" to the Vietnam War with even the same character's name Kurtz. Interesting cast including Harrison Ford, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall et al. It's one of those films that leaves you stunned not only at the end but at several points of horror that made me think to cut it off and find a "Honeymooners" episode instead, but I stuck with it all the way through. The dystopia is the whole thing, beginning with Sheen drunk and obviously mentally unstable in a hotel room in Saigon, and especially as it messes with your head all the way through, an expose on what we humans really are and how the power exercised in war unleashes the bullying brutal worst in us. My-Lai came to mind more than once, and it had been more than fifty years since the term "MAC-V" was an everyday part of my working world vocabulary. Jiminy. Would I watch it again? No, but let my brain finish unscrambling before I say for sure. 

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Tass & Jeremy are coming today and Linda reminded me that if I eat the leftover pizza it'll do a PPHT on me that drops my BP and puts me down for a two hour nap, so I think I'll have a tin of fish for breakfast, probably sardines, a breakfast and supper standby. With yellow mustard and a second mug of hot & black.

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Tomorrow's Sunday, so no bad words today, eh? and, as we shift back and forth and went to ten-thirty last Sunday tomorrow is an eight o'clock Sunday for us. 

RSF&PTL

T90 

pic: 1912 Reeves Octoauto shows that there's never an essential relationship between my picture and my text