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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

The Hardy Boys

 Hello Tuesday!  Temps here are supposed to climb into the upper 30s (F).  Tomorrow into the 40s (F).  And by Thursday will be in the 50s (F).  Now, how's that for a rebound from the Cyclone Bomb?

Plans were to go see Babylon this evening.  They've changed.  It opened poorly.  That doesn't usually phase me, what does is that it has a 3 hour + running time.  Another thing:  the film was advertised more as a comedy with dramatic moments and that's wrong.  It's an all out drama, little comedy, about the problems Hollywood dealt with in the switch from silent films to talkies.  I'm thinking someone should have told Damian Chazelle there's already been a really super movie made about that time.  It's a little thing called "Singin' in the Rain."

 The NYT has a good list of people who died during 2022, that includes many you wouldn't know about.  One of those mentioned was Tim Considine, who played Frank Hardy, of the Hardy Boys on Disney's Micky Mouse Club, a long, long, time ago.  I was 6 years old at the time, and yes, I did love the Hardy Boys.  Joe Hardy was played by Tommy Kirk, a Disney regular until they found out he was gay and kicked him out.


And what about the George Santos fiasco?  His resume is thick with lies:  never graduated from college, never worked for Goldman Sachs, he's not Jewish, though he explains that by saying he said he was Jew-ish, with a silent hyphen.  Oh, and George says that he's not going to resign.  He's going to go to Congress.  Kev McCarthy has been silent; if he's going to become Speaker of the House, he's going to need every vote he can get which means he's going to seat him.  Hell, what's another liar among Republicans?  From what I understand, his financing is going to bring him down.  He claims to own a company called Devolder, which has very little revenue, yet he supposedly pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money into his campaign.  Santos epitomizes the Republican party. 


10 comments:

  1. I've never heard of George Santos so I had to look him up. Man that's a lot of lying out of one mouth isn't it!

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    1. He is a fairly scurvy chap. The fact that his party doesn't seem to care, says a lot of about their failures.

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  2. The list of those in memorian again is a long one this year. Let's hope there's no surprise again on New Year's like Betty White last year.

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    1. I don't really watch them anymore, probably because so many people I grew up with are going to start to die.

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  3. Republican = lying, cheating, hate filled SOS in my book. When the Republican Party finally dies I will dance naked in the streets. Picture that if you can.

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    1. There was a time, 40 or 50 years ago, when they weren't so obvious.

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  4. What??? A Republican has been outed as a blatant liar???? You.Don't.Say.

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    1. If he were brilliant, I don't think he'd have been caught.

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  5. I used to like reading the Hardy Boys books as a kid.

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    1. The were written by F. W. Dixon, who was not one person, but a group of several writers who also worked on the Nancy Drew series, as well as others.

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