Saturday Afternoon Thoughts

Several folks have messaged me that in the movie Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, there is a brief reference to the Beverly Cinema showing dirty movies. I missed it even though I saw the movie at the Beverly Cinema.

Just for the record: I never met Jeffrey Epstein and never got an invite or a ride to his island. I just thought I'd say that because I see so many other people saying that.

My computer runs a piece of software for which I have a subscription that is expiring on January 17. I have decided to let it expire not because I don't use the service or like it but because they're now sending me three pop-up reminders per day to renew and there's no way to turn them off.

I see threads popping up online wherein folks are saying they didn't like that Dick Van Dyke Birthday Special that I liked. This is not the kind of thing that I feel compelled to defend but I would remind some of these folks that (a) a pre-recorded show like that is edited so a lot of things were probably said that didn't make it to air, (b) it's not easy to round up "more people who worked with Dick" when Dick is 98 years old and (c) a birthday party is for the person whose birthday it is and Dick looked pretty darned happy.

Someone once said, "The single stupidest thing a person can do is to run out of gas." And he or she was right that it's stupid unless your gas gauge is malfunctioning. It may be equally stupid to allow your cell phone battery to get down to zero.

And as I was typing the previous paragraph, I got yet another pop-up reminder that my subscription to that program expires on January 17. Grrrrrrr.