Neanderpundit

Robert Shapiro did a series of shows at the Channel One theater in New York. No, I didn’t see them, and I imagine few people who saw them were straight enough to remember them now, but a lot of pieces of those shows ended up in a movie called the Groove Tube, which was shown as a late night double feature with the Kentucky Fried Movie. The Groove Tube features Richard Belzer and Chevy Chase as foetuses. The scene where Belzer is a dope dealer who eats a huge bag of weed because he thinks he’s being busted came four years before Cheech and Chong did Up in Smoke.

Anyway, the very best part of the movie, for me, and the one that sticks with me years later, and which still makes me laugh, is Safety Sam. I remember sitting in the theater while people all around me said “What the hell is that thing?”.

I knew. You probably will too. Nobody wants to take credit for being the- erm, actor, and you will be able to see why
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For the oglet’s first fencing coach. A well loved man, the wake was loaded with people, and we stayed long enough to pay our respects and go.

57. Far too young. Leaves children around my daughter’s age.

Lots of people my age dying. More each year, A few younger than me, too. This death thing is no damned fun for anyone. Shame someone hasn’t made it illegal, that stops stuff for sure.

I used the time (Since I wasn’t hustling wood) to move a bunch of stuff around the yard, bring the snowblower in (I had treated a bunch of rust on it and it needed some rustoleum) paint said snowblower, pin up the wool blankets over the windows in my office ( A powerful lot of damned windows) ream out the crapper (Our water has a fairly high calcium content, and it does tend to close up the holes in the rim making it difficult for enough water to get into the bowl fast enough to make the poo go away) And kept the fire in the fireplace going. I wrecked myself and barely (By my standards, anyway) did anything.