"Grace, I give you
the boy. Give me back the man." Lee
Marvin as Ben Rumson in "Paint Your Wagon" 1969. I
was in Ruby Garrett's fine establishment in 1964. Seriously, I was.
Ruby would have been in prison for killing her husband then, but the
place was still operating in her absence.
Being Young and Dumb in Montana
Thanksgiving can mean
quite a bit of stress if youre the one hosting dinner.
And, yes, years ago we actually had a fire in our oven! The
new idea being promoted was cooking your turkey in a brown
paper grocery store bag, kept the moisture in, they said.
But, our bag touched the oven heating element. More
Today
In History: November 22, 1963
The
film is largely forgotten today, apart from one notorious
bit of trivia about its title. Krakatoa, the site of a
cataclysmic 1883 volcanic eruption, is actually an island in
the Sunda Strait WEST of Java. How could Hollywood
screw up such an elementary bit of geography? But, a 1969
New Yorker review claims it was accidental, and discovered
too late to change all the publicity materials. More
Technology
is developing at a fast pace, and the consumer world doesn't
wait around. It seems like there is a new product every day.
Phones become too old after a couple of years on the market;
sometimes you can't even buy devices that are compatible
with them. All of their functions are now combined in
smartphones. In just a few years they have eliminated the
use of the Walkman, the video recorder, and even the DVD
player. More
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Everyone
above the age of reason on November 22, 1963 remembers where
they were when the news flashed around the world that President
John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed. Everyone except George
Herbert Walker Bush, who when asked years later said ''I don't
recall''. See the photo of young CIA agent George Bush standing
in front of the Texas School Book Depository on that fateful
day. More