When I was a kid, I didn’t like my grandmother much and the feeling was mutual. She had a knack for upsetting me, like telling me I looked like I was pregnant when I’d wear a bathing suit as a teenager, leading to the inevitable body image issues I’ve had since then. Her taunts later progressed into calling me an old maid, in front of my parents and younger siblings, because I was still single at the ripe old age of 30. I would dread special occasions and big family dinners because she would be there. I was even stressed out before her wake a few years ago – right up until the moment I looked into her coffin and realized, with sweet relief, that she was dead and I’d never have to put up with her bullshit ever again. As much as I was convinced my grandmother was a witch, she sure as hell had nothing on Marie L’Angell, Jesse Custer’s Gran’ma on AMC’s Preacher.
Betty Buckley as Marie L’Angelle. Photo: Alfonso Bresciani/AMC/Sony Pictures Television.
Preacher is one of those shows that’s an acquired taste. I took a pass when it first aired and then binge-watched the first season during an AMC marathon right before Season 2 began. It’s based on a comic book series about a not-so-pious, you guessed it – preacher. The comics are written by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon and the TV series was developed by Seth Rogan, Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin.
Season 3 has been outstanding so far and damn, Betty Buckley has rocked the role of my evil, er, Jesse’s evil, Gran’ma.
Last night’s episode, entitled Gonna Hurt (season 3, episode 3), begins with Tulip (Ruth Negga) driving around town, looking for a way to break Gran’ma’s blood compact curse on Jesse (Dominic Cooper). As an aside, the next time a man suggests to me that women can’t drive, I will cite Tulip’s amazing driving skills as an example that he is completely full of crap. Continue reading →
I was listening to the Bay City Rollers in my car yesterday while driving home from my parent’s house in Owen Sound, singing along with Rock and Roll Love Letter. I was thinking about how there was a time in my life when I was too embarrassed to admit I had ever even liked them.
In my Rollers gear!
But when I was a kid, I lived and breathed the Bay City Rollers. Their pictures adorned my bedroom walls, I listened to their albums continuously and had the full “Rollers” uniform – tam, scarf and pants trimmed with tartan. My mother would wake me up in the middle of the night so I could watch their appearances on late-night programs like The Midnight Special. They were the first and second concerts I ever went to, August 11, 1976, at Maple Leaf Gardens and August 22, 1977, at Exhibition Stadium.
The man who started it all, Bay City Rollers founder Alan Longmuir, died today at the age of 70.
Sadly, Alan was no longer with the Rollers when I saw them live, he had left the band in early 1976. He did reunite briefly with lead singer Les McKeown and guitarist Stuart “Woody” Wood for several concert dates in 2015. And in 2016, the LRStageworks production of I Ran With The Gang, The Story of Original Bay City Roller Alan Longmuir, made its international debut in Toronto.
Kathy Connor and Alan Longmuir.
My friend Kathy Connor, who knew Alan personally and was largely responsible for bringing the I Ran With The Gang show to Toronto twice, expressed her thoughts on Alan’s passing: “He was a gentle soul, proud to have called him friend. Thank-you Alan for all the joy you have brought into my life. So honored I was a small part in the telling of your story. I love you, till we meet again.”
Alan was described by other fans who had met him as a “kind, lovely man” who will be deeply missed.
Thanks Alan – listening to you and the “gang” are some of my happiest childhood memories. Bye bye baby – rest in peace.
Harlan Ellison was not afraid of the Hollywood establishment. The science fiction author and screenwriter did not suffer plagiarists lightly and successfully sued ABC and James Cameron, among many others. He died on June 28th at the age of 84.
In his lawsuit against ABC and Paramount Pictures, he alleged the TV series Future Cop was based on the short story Brillo, which he co-wrote with Ben Bova. The court agreed with him and Ellison and Bova were awarded a settlement of $337,00.
He also successfully sued James Cameron, based on an Outer Limits episode he wrote called Soldier, about a soldier sent back in time with one mission – to kill an enemy. Sound familiar?
Settled out of court, Cameron had to concede to Ellison’s influence on his screenplay (written with Gale Anne Hurd) The Terminator. Directly after Sarah Connor drives her jeep towards the oncoming storm in the final scene of the movie, the words “Acknowledgement to the works of HARLAN ELLISON” appears on the screen just before the end credits roll.
Cameron later called Ellison “…a parasite who can kiss my ass.”
One of Ellison’s most famous teleplays, Star Trek’s City on the Edge of Forever, is arguably the most interesting and unique episode of the original Star Trek series that ever aired. It too is about time travel – a heavily drugged Dr. McCoy travels back to a depression-era USA, saves the life of a woman (played by Joan Collins) and inadvertently changes the future, and not for the better. Kirk and Spock follow him and try to put the timeline back in order.
He also wrote novels, novellas, comic book scripts and episodes of other television shows, including The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Babylon 5, The Twilight Zone and Logan’s Run.
Ellison was a talented writer who had no fear of challenging the status quo. RIP.
I don’t think any of my friends or family members would ever accuse me of being spontaneous.
For instance, I already know what I’m doing next weekend (visiting my sister and my nieces) and the weekend after that (hibernating at home, albeit one hour less of it due to the start of daylight savings time). Not knowing what I’m doing three weekends from now is about as impulsive as it gets for me.
I plan out meals about a week in advance – case in point – I knew last weekend that we would be having beef stew tonight and spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner tomorrow night. Grilled jerk chicken and a home-made Caesar salad is on tap for Monday and grilled pork chops, jasmine rice and steamed broccoli with butter is on Tuesday’s menu. If I get to M &M Meats tomorrow (which, of course, I’m planning in advance) I’ll grab some burgers and we can have those on Wednesday night.
Going to the grocery store without a detailed list of what I’ll be buying is even taboo to me. I hem and haw over anything that might divert from that list. “Hmm, chicken broth isn’t on the list but it’s on sale this week and I am buying beef broth so maybe that’s OK?” I’ll think to myself, standing in front of the product.
Days in advance, I plan what movies I’ll be watching if I’m home for the weekend. Up this weekend are Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness (as soon as I left the movie theater, after seeing each one, I planned to ask my parent’s for them on Blu Ray for Xmas). I’ll definitely be going to see Star Trek Beyond when it hits theaters in July. I won’t be going opening weekend (I don’t like crowds much) so I’m planning to go the second weekend after it opens. So I think I’ve just proved my point – I’m already planning a weekend movie viewing this July.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to get moving. I’m about to clean the bathroom – I’ve been planning it since Monday.
Yesterday’s Dinner: Butter chicken with Uncle Ben’s Basmati Rice and nan bread.
It seems like every couple of years, when I park my car at my sister’s house, a couple of creatures hop along for the ride home.
What you have to keep in mind is that my sister and her family live in the forest. Well, not literally, but her house is surrounded by 10 acres of land, so of course it’s home to some undesirables. Like mice. And I guess my car is popular among those undesirables.
Two years ago, there was a strange smell coming from my car shortly after I had visited my sister’s place, so when I took it for regular maintenance I mentioned the smell and the mechanics told me a mouse had been using the cabin air filter as a nest. Lovely.
Not my actual air filter…
About a week ago, I left my sister’s place, after having parked my car there for only two nights, and all seemed well with my vehicle until later in the day when I went out grocery shopping with Dougie. On the way home, the air conditioning system was making a vibrating noise and the more I turned it up, the more vibration there was. Dejectedly, I realized I would have to take it in to get it checked.
By the time I took the car to Hyundai two days later, there was a horrific stench coming out of the vents when I turned on the air conditioning system. I really hoped it wasn’t another mouse.
The mechanics looked at the car and it wasn’t just one mouse, they actually found a family of dead mice in the air conditioning/heating filter. The sound Dougie and I had heard two days earlier was the fan blades cutting up the papa mouse, according to the Hyundai tech. Yuck.
Is this a common occurrence with Hyundai vehicles, or, as Dougie has suggested, do the mice just like the green apple colour of my car?
From what I’ve read online, it seems this is a Hyundai issue. Perhaps they should change their slogan from “New Thinking. New Possibilities” to “Hyundai – Popular Among Mice“.
Everyone in Southern Ontario and even in the rest of Canada, is excited about the Toronto Blue Jays. The Jays currently sit at the top of the American League East standings, having won the last 11 games in a row. Most of this is due to a recent trade for a shortstop named Troy Tulowitzki and the acquisition of a free agent pitcher named David Price.
With Mike Palmateer, Leafs goalie in the 1970s and my favourite player at the time.
Dougie has been a loyal Jays fan for years. For me, not so much. It’s not really the Jays fault though. I’d like to be excited about this team and I probably would be, if it weren’t for another Toronto team that used to break my heart every year, the Toronto Maple Leafs. I used to be a hockey nut, waiting outside Maple Leaf Gardens to meet the players before playoff games or practices and I was even lucky enough to go to the games once in a while. But year after year it was the same old, same old. When they made the playoffs they would get to the quarter finals and lose. I remember in 1978 they actually beat the New York Islanders to make the semi-finals but then lost to the powerhouse Montreal Canadiens. For the past 10 or 15 years, they have barely made the playoffs.
The last time I watched a Leafs game was on May 8, 2000. It was a game six semi-final versus the New Jersey Devils and since I was in New Jersey on business, a few work colleagues and I scooped up a handful of tickets. We were so pumped for the game because if the Leafs won, it would force a game seven back in Toronto.
The Leafs ended up setting an NHL record that night, but it sure wasn’t a record any team would ever want. They had the lowest shots on goal in a playoff game ever, six shots in total. Not only did they break my heart, once again, but I saw it live and not even on home turf where all of us long-suffering Leafs fans could commiserate together. The only saving grace for me that evening was that, at the last minute, I’d decided to wear a Leafs t-shirt instead of a jersey to the game, so I was able to put a light jacket over top of it as I hung my head low while walking out of the Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey. I decided at that moment that I was done with the Leafs and being a Taurus, when I make up my mind that I am done with something, be it a sports team, a band, a type of food or even a man, I am done for good.
I used to enjoy baseball as well and have attended a few Jays games. When the Jays won the World Series in Toronto in 1993, I was at a downtown Toronto pub with a friend. Those of us who were vertically challenged were standing on top of the bar to see the television screens displaying the game and when Joe Carter hit that winning home run, the place exploded and I fell to the ground on my ass, cheering and laughing the whole time.
Who knows how well the Jays will actually do this season, there are still a few weeks to go, and if they actually make the playoffs I may even be tempted to watch the games. But in the back of my mind I know I will expect the worst and for that, I blame the Toronto Maple Leafs.
I’m not sure what kind of genes my parents passed on to my brother and sister and I, but we are all freaks in our own way.
Dougie has seen ghosts on several occasions. His first haunting was at our parent’s house in East York. The previous owner of the house had killed himself in the garage, running his car until he choked to death on the carbon monoxide. I remember washing the windows of the garage with my dad before we moved in.
One evening in the middle of the night, when Dougie was about nine years old, he heard a car running, looked outside his bedroom window and saw the lights of a car running inside the garage and my father’s car parked in the driveway behind it.
Dougie’s second haunting was at my grandmother’s house. He was sleeping on the couch in her living room and when he woke up, he realized something was pressing on his chest and he was unable to move. This went on for at least five minutes and he was terrified. A gust of wind suddenly rolled through the room, caused the front door to open and then slam shut. It wasn’t the first or the last time something similar happened to him at her house.
Another time, Dougie was staying a friend’s place during the summer and woke up in the middle of the night to find the walls had turned to ice and there were turn of the century soldiers walking around in the bedroom. When he relayed this story to his friend’s parents the next night at dinner, they told him their oldest son had experienced this exact same thing a few years earlier.
My sister Connie had a strange dream about her next door neighbour one night about 13 years ago. He was reaching out to her, desperately trying to tell her something. She woke up wondering what that dream was all about but she found out a few hours later, when his wife called, crying, telling her that her husband had died that evening.
Any excuse to post a photo of the cast of Sliders, one of my favourite shows of all time!
As for me, I’m a Slider (no, I can’t slide into other dimensions like on the TV show) which means I am able to affect electricity with my brainwaves. Light bulbs sometimes pop when I walk into a room and street lights commonly go out when I walk underneath them, especially if I’m angry. I’m usually not shutting down lights on purpose, although occasionally, by sheer force of will, I can look up at a street light and *poof* – the light goes boom. It’s like I unleash a sort of lightening rod from my brain that emanates to the socket.
I wondered if fluorescent & halogen bulbs would be immune to my ability, as they are supposed to last a lot longer than incandescent light bulbs, but it seems they are not. Since I’ve moved in to my new house, I am constantly replacing light bulbs.
The Terminator is my favourite movie of all time so although I was excited to see Terminator Genisys, I wasn’t expecting much. So when Dougie and I went to see it yesterday, I couldn’t believe how giddy I got at times. The visual recreations of the T-101 and Kyle Reese’s arrivals in 1984 were absolutely spot on; the naked Terminator’s conversation with the punks and even Kyle Reese’s momentary stop in the department store to grab a jacket and the exact same pair of Nike running shoes he wore in the original film. They got everything right, including the dialogue – and I should know, I’ve seen The Terminator enough times that I’ve practically memorized every line.
As for the cast, Emilia Clarke is no Linda Hamilton (hell, she’s no Lena Headey, who was superb in The Sarah Connor Chronicles) but she did do a decent job playing the Sarah Connor in this timeline. Arnie was at his best, as an aging T-101, who at one point admits he’s old but “not obsolete.” And Jason Clarke was a pretty bad-ass John Connor (although I loved Nick Stahl’s haunted version of Connor in Terminator 3: Rise of The Machines).
Michael Biehn, left and Jai Courtney as Kyle Reese.
It’s really too bad Sam Worthington was in Terminator Salvation (although he was the best thing about that film) because I think he would have made a much better Kyle Reese in Terminator Genisys than Jai Courtney, who was pretty innocuous. To be fair though, no one will ever embody the character of Kyle Reese like Michael Biehn did. That man was just smoldering hot in The Terminator.
When I saw the trailers for Terminator Genisys, I was convinced the J.K. Simmons character was going to play Dr. Silberman, the criminal psychologist who tormented Sarah in the psych ward in Terminator 2, originally played by Earl Boen. But as it turned out, he actually plays a policeman who witnessed Reese’s fight with a T-1000 in 1984 and shows up again at the police station when Sarah and Kyle are arrested in 2017. And yes, they jump from 1984 to 2017 in a time machine.
Another awesome addition to this film was that in 2017, Miles Dyson’s son Danny becomes an unsuspecting tool of Skynet.
I loved most of the twists and changes in the alternate timeline, even if some of them made little sense. A lot of critics have panned this film but from the perspective of one of the biggest Terminator geeks on the planet, I can tell you that I can’t wait to buy the Terminator Genisys Blu Ray when it’s released so I can watch it all over again.
The premise of Terminator Genisys, which opens in theaters on July 1, 2015, is that it takes place in an alternate timeline, as seen in the film’s trailers, so obviously many elements from the original Terminator film will be different, however, there are still aspects of the story that must stay consistent with the original.
10. The Terminator’s Arrival in 1984
The T-101 arrives!
The original movie The Terminator starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as a time-travelling robot with a layer of human flesh, Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, and Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese. The plot begins as The Terminator, Cyberdyne Systems Model T-101 seemingly drops from the sky in a hail of lightning and begins acquiring weapons and information on all women named Sarah Connor living in the city of Los Angeles.
His mission: to terminate Sarah and by default, kill her unborn son John in the process.
9. Kyle Reese’s Arrival In 1984
Kyle Reese arrives.
Soldier Kyle Reese is also sent back in time, but with a much more heroic mission – to save Sarah Connor from the T-101.
In The Terminator, the viewer’s first glimpse of Kyle is when he also drops from the sky but onto a dark alley. Since the time machine devised by Skynet can only send through organic material, anyone arriving in the past has to travel in the nude. He steals the clothes of a homeless man in the alley, is immediately spotted by police and a chase ensues. Kyle escapes by ducking into a department store and acquiring Nike running shoes and a rifle from an abandoned police vehicle.
We already know from the Terminator Genisys trailers that the original terminator (sent to kill Sarah) and Kyle will both arrive in 1984.
8. Come With Me If You Want to Live
Come with me if you want to live!
The first time audiences heard this line, which has been uttered once in every one of the four Terminator movies (The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator: Salvation) was during the horrifying face-off at the Tech Noir nightclub. Sarah, a damsel in obvious distress, sits nervously at a table in the nightclub waiting for the police to arrive, when the T-101 confronts her. This is Sarah’s first encounter with the cyborg and as she realizes she is his target, Kyle temporarily fends off the T-101, reaches his arm out to Sarah and utters the sentence: “Come with me if you want to live.”
If the trailers from Terminator Genisys are any indication, this line is uttered in a reversal of roles. Sarah Connor, played by Emilia Clarke in this iteration, is no helpless female. With a T-101 protector already by her side, once again played by Schwarzenegger, she looks like a bad-ass as she opens the door of a heavy-duty armored truck and tells Kyle, this time played by Jai Courtney: “Come with me if you want to live.
7. I’ll Be Back
Schwarzenegger’s T-101 has a number of classic lines throughout the original film, including one where a caretaker at a flophouse he’s staying in smells the cyborg’s rotting flesh as he walks by his room.
“Hey buddy. You got a dead cat in there or what?”
The T-101 goes through a list of possible responses, including “Yes/No,” and “Please come back later,” but ultimately goes for: “F**ck you, a**hole.”
But the most iconic of Schwarzenegger’s lines in the film has to be: “I’ll be back.”
After a car chase through the city, Sarah and Kyle end up at a police station in Los Angeles for questioning. Kyle has already told Sarah her unborn son sent him from the year 2029 to save her from the T-101 and that he grew up in a post-apocalyptic world caused by machines turning against people.
When the T-101 arrives at the police station he politely tells the desk clerk he is a friend of Sarah’s and would like to see her. He is told that Sarah is making a statement and he can sit on a bench and wait for her. The T-101 looks around, sizing up the structure of the small room, and tells the clerk: “I’ll be back.”
Schwarzenegger’s deadpan delivery of this line is a huge understatement when he then crashes a car into the room and, machine gun blazing, proceeds to kill just about every police officer at the station.
From the Terminator Genisys trailers, it looks like the iconic “I’ll be back,” will be included in the film.
6. Flashbacks to the Future
Throughout the first half of The Terminator, Kyle has flashbacks to the terrifying future that awaits humanity. Fire has devastated the landscape and human skulls lay everywhere. Advanced planes search the night sky, scanning the surroundings for human survivors. Metal hunter-killers roam the land, flashing red and blue lights.
Humans live a filthy underground existence, as evidenced when Kyle enters a safe house. As he walks by some of the inhabitants he sees two young girls warming themselves by a fire inside a burnt-out television and two boys who’ve just caught a rat for dinner and all the while you can hear people crying and moaning.
These types of flashbacks to the future provide a basis for the importance of ultimately winning the war against the machines and should be included in Terminator Genisys.
5. The Message from John
“Look, Reese. I didn’t ask for this honor!”
After escaping the massacre at the police station, Kyle and Sarah stop to rest for the night under a highway overpass. After asking Kyle to tell her about her son, Kyle delivers a message John made him memorize before he travelled back through time:
“Thank you Sarah for your courage through the dark years. I can’t help you with what you must soon face, except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive, or I will never exist.”
Frustrated, Sarah says to Kyle, “Do I look like the mother of the future? Am I tough, organized? I can’t even balance my check book.”
Will Kyle even need to deliver this message to Sarah in the alternate timeline of Terminator Genisys? It looks like she’s already well aware of her role as “the mother of the future.”
Sarah & Kyle, preparing to conceive John.
4. John Connor’s Conception
Whether it takes place in a motel room or in the back of a pickup truck, Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese must do the deed, as the entire premise of the series of films depends on it. The Terminator was, above all else, a love story and this very important element of the original film must be preserved.
In TheTerminator, after the cyborg has made several attempts on Sarah’s life, she and Kyle conveniently end up in a motel room, where he finally confesses that he’s never been with a woman and he’s been in love with her for years. “I came across time for you Sarah. I love you. I always have.” Sarah doesn’t reply and instead stares at him, overwhelmed. “I shouldn’t have said that,” Kyle says and then gets up and starts putting pipe bombs into a backpack. Sarah pulls him to her, kisses him and the scene then cuts to the two of them making love and ultimately conceiving Sarah’s unborn son, John Connor.
Without this element from the original film, there would be no reason for any of the events to have taken place – the time travel and the targeting of Sarah Connor for extermination, so it is assumed a love scene between Sarah and Kyle will somehow be included in TerminatorGenisys. Whether or not Sarah Connor is aware that Kyle is John’s father in this alternate timeline remains to be seen.
3. Kyle Reese’s Death
Sarah discovering that Kyle is dead.
Kyle dies in the original Terminator, in the metal factory where he and Sarah had taken refuge. As the T-101 endoskeleton approaches the pair, Kyle tells Sarah to run. She refuses, until she sees Kyle lighting a pipe bomb. As she runs, Kyle shoves the lit bomb up the center of the T-101. The resulting explosion kills Kyle but only succeeds in blowing off the Terminator’s legs.
Kyle must also die in Terminator Genisys. Terminator fans are not interested in a happy ending for Kyle and Sarah. She must go through the heartbreak of losing Kyle to become the person she is meant to be.
2. Cyberdyne Systems – You’re Terminated F**ker!
Sarah terminating The Terminator.
After Kyle’s death, an injured Sarah must now fend for herself. The cyborg has survived and crawls after her through the factory.
Sarah ultimately succeeds in destroying the T-101 in a hydraulic press as it reaches for her throat. Just before she pushes the button to crush it, she says goodbye: “You’re terminated f**ker!”
The factory turns out to be Cyberdyne Systems (a scene cut from the theatrical release) and the metallic arm and damaged memory chip remain, allowing Cyberdyne staff to create cyborgs in the future.
A comparable scene in which evidence of a cyborg is left at Cyberdyne Systems needs to be recreated in Terminator Genisys for events to progress as they were intended.
1. The Photograph of Sarah
The photo that started it all.
In The Terminator, Kyle Reese is in already in love with Sarah before he leaves his own time period, based on a photograph he carried around for years, given to him in the future by Sarah’s son John. Just before he confesses his love, he tells her: “John gave me a picture of you once. It was very old, faded. You were young, like you are now. You seemed just…a little sad. I used to always wonder what you were thinking at that moment. I memorized every line, every curve.” What neither of them realizes is that John gave Kyle the photo because he knows Kyle is his father.
We find out at the end of the film, as a pregnant Sarah sits in her Jeep at a gas station and a Mexican boy snaps a photo of her, that she is recording an audio message to John, reminiscing about his father right at the moment the photo is snapped: “For the few hours we had together, we loved a lifetime’s worth.”
A scene involving a similar photo of Sarah needs to be included in Terminator Genisys because without this photo, there is no real reason for Kyle to time travel to 1984 to save Sarah, the woman he loves.
Last Week’s Jeopardy Results: I kicked ass all week, including Thursday’s Final Jeopardy Answer – Cyndi Lauper.
Dougie is serious about Jeopardy. He’s been watching it for years and since he’s moved in, I watch it with him every evening. When the clues come on the screen, we both try to yell out the answers before the contestants and before each other. The only time Dougie and I really argue is when we’re playing Jeopardy.
Dougie prefers history, geography and sports categories, whereas I prefer literature, movies and TV categories which, according to him, are categories that “dummies” prefer.
When I get something right, or get all of the correct answers in one category, his typical comment is usually: “Well obviously that category was for dummies.”
He will also question how I came up with a particular answer, as though I was brain dead or I’d just climbed out from under a rock.
We typically start arguing and get pissed off at each other when one of two things occur:
1. One of us is on a roll, getting most of the answers right throughout the episode, while the other looks on in disbelief, or;
2. Even worse, one of us gets a correct answer from one of the other person’s favourite categories.
In either case, Dougie typically enjoys pumping his fist in the air and yelling “Bam!” when he has the luck of the Jeopardy gods on his side. I tend to do a little sitting dance, whilst pumping my feet against the floor when I am lucky enough to have things go in my favour.
Last week, there was an evening in which Dougie answered the most questions correctly but I got the Final Jeopardy question right. His response was: “You still don’t win.” I foolishly accepted this and agreed we’d call it a draw.
The following evening, I answered the majority of questions correctly throughout the episode but he got the Final Jeopardy question right. His response that evening: “I have victory!”
This past Friday, I was not at home and therefore, could not play Jeopardy with Dougie. I received the following text from him: “You should consider yourself very lucky you weren’t home tonight. I would have whooped your ass in Jeopardy.” When I replied with: “sure, liar,” he then told me: “It would have been an old fashioned hide tanning you would have received. The categories were perfect for me but of course it’s a night you weren’t home. I am very angry.”
Yesterday’s Jeopardy Results: A draw until Final Jeopardy (we both agreed we hated most of the categories). Dougie got the Final Jeopardy Answer – Jackson Pollock.
Yesterday’s Dinner:Slow Cooker Pork Rib Roast (VH Soy Sauce, water mixed with juices from the browned roast, salt and pepper rub and a bay leaf) with cubed white potatoes, garlic and onions and steamed green beans.
Matinee Slim 
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