I read once that western cowboy stories are America’s knight-in-shining-armor stories. That author obviously wasn’t talking about the recent ones. But about Matt Dillion and ones like him. Marshal Matthew Dillion was someone you could look up to – literally and figuratively. James Arness was 6’7”. He stood head and shoulders over everyone else in …
I’m almost always in the mood for a western. Not the new icky Lonesome Dove kind. I like the old white hat/John Wayne kind. Where good guys stand up for right and win. Where there is a right. Where there’s a satisfying ending. The Silverado-Open Range-Gunsmoke kind of westerns. Someone once called them America’s knights-in-shining-armor …
You hear stories of cats waking up their people when there’s a fire and other things like that. But I never gave it much thought until yesterday. We have a courageous cat. Muff was afraid of the vacuum monster. As soon as I got out the cleaning supplies she would run and hide as far …
I keep hearing about “conservatives” hating Avatar. I don’t know if that’s politically correct for “christian” or not. But I wonder at the anger of these people. I don’t really understand it. There is a native population in tune with nature (reminiscent of the Indians). There are mercenaries willing to destroy a planet’s eco-system to …
Twilight Zone turned 50 years old last week. I happened to see an episode they had on to celebrate. It was one I had never seen in all the reruns and marathons. Changing of the Guard is about a teacher at a boys’ school. He’d been there forever (now teaching the grandson of one of …
I’ve watched and read a lot of the coverage of Jaycee Dugard’s release from that backyard prison. Such an unimaginable horror. So much of it sounds like some awful movie script – you wouldn’t think it could be real. One of the things that bothers me most (besides the fact that that creep was let …
The other day I was working away on my laptop when Lilly decided it was time for some attention. That, of course, means walking across the keyboard. Music started playing. I jumped. She jumped. Even Glenn jumped. It took me a minute to realize that it was those first eerie sounds from Cats – of …
I watched a lot of the coverage since he died. It’s all so sad. An abused child became an abused adult. In trying to lose himself, he destroyed a handsome face and changed his skin color. Even his “child-likeness” seemed like a symptom of his brokenness—as if his growth was stunted. He had a gift …
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. (Sherlock Holmes, The Boscombe Valley Mystery) I like to watch people. You can learn alot from things they do. And how they respond. The way a husband responds to something can tell about how he was raised. Or what he thinks. The same …
Muffy passed away this morning. She was supposed to be Renee’s cat. I remember when we brought her home. She was so scared that she hid under the couch all day. I let her stay there until after the dinner clean up was done, Renee went out to play and the house was quiet. Then …
