Monthly Archives: January 2019

• Here's my solution to the Democrats/Trump gridlock over The Wall: Dems agree to release money to build The Wall but only as matching funds keyed to whatever Mexico puts up for it. A great deal for Mexico since, after all, Trump promised they'd pay for the whole thing!

If you'd like to see actual Laurel and Hardy films starring the actual Laurel and Hardy, set your TiVo or DVR for Turner Classic Movies next Monday night, January 7. Starting at 8 PM on my TV (yours may vary), they're running a batch of great Stan and Ollie movies…and one of their weakest. The films are, in order: The Music Box, Busy Bodies, Way Out West, Sons of the Desert, Tit for Tat, Swiss Miss, Pack Up Your Troubles, Air Raid Wardens, Brats and A Chump at Oxford.

The Music Box, Busy Bodies, Tit for Tat and Brats are shorts. The Music Box is the best of these and Tit for Tat is, in my opinion, the weakest. Tit for Tat was a sequel to a short called Them Thar Hills and usually when TCM runs Tit for Tat, they run Them Thar Hills right before it.

The rest are features and the two best in there are Way Out West and Sons of the Desert. The one to miss is Air Raid Wardens, which may be the least funny movie they made. It's the only one of this batch that they didn't make for the Hal Roach Studio.

A man just walked past my window. He was an older man, perhaps in his eighties, and he was screaming either at no one or maybe into a Bluetooth headset, that he was going to "rape every last one of you." He did not clarify who that list included…and he was wearing a lovely top hat and a full tuxedo with tails.

• Lots of online debates this morning over whether Trump would beat Elizabeth Warren or vice-versa. I'm amused by the assumption that either one of them will be their party's nominee.

Cookie Monster visits the Ellen show…