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Man that whole album takes me back. My dad bought that soundtrack album for the cover art. He was a SCUBA nut and collected everything SCUBA he could get -- even including Van Halen's Diver Down -- just for the cover art.

I didn't see the 1965 film until much later -- I was 5 when it came out -- but I got the story from Mad Magazine: They drafted cartoon panel versions of every "M" rated film so that us kids could get the gist of the stories. You could say that I grew up around the music on that album. I think my brother and I played the LP more than he did. Like I said, he bought it for the cover art.

The first Bond film I saw was Diamonds Are Forever when I was 11. My dad took my brother and me to see it. Dad was so excited that Sean Connery came back to play Bond (he never accepted the other actors as "real" Bonds). Of course my mother didn't go. She didn't exactly approve of his taking us along either.

Interesting sidebar: The underwater scenes were directed by Ricou Browning (for which he won an Oscar).  Browning was already on my radar as a preteen because he had played the Gill-man in the Creature From The Black Lagoon series in the '50's. Browning's other credits included Flipper and also co-creating Weeki-Watchee Springs in Florida -- a place I saw in 1968 on a glorious family road trip.  I just learned that Browning is still alive (b. 1930) and he is the last surviving Universal Pictures Horror actor.

More Thunderball cover art discreetly below the fold:

WRKLEM Who is the other one?

Chief Justice Roberts Declines To Read Question From Sen. Rand Paul

My favorite senator Rand Paul submitted the following question:

My exact question was:
Are you aware that House intelligence committee staffer Shawn Misko had a close relationship with Eric Ciaramella while at the National Security Council together
and are you aware and how do you respond to reports that Ciaramella and Misko may have worked together to plot impeaching the President before there were formal house impeachment proceedings.

The Chief Justice decide on his own prerogative that he would disallow this question. Why? To protect the Democrats case of course. 

It has long been rumored that the Democrats have something on Roberts. The assumption is it has something to do with the adoption of some of his children that was not quite kosher. It was the reason why he invented a "tax" to save Obamacare. I think they have something there.

After this impeachment is over I think we should have another one.  Just sayn'

The Babe Abides

"So keed I hear you are going to help me with my autobiography?"
"That's right Mister Ruth. I am your ghost writer."
"Well that explains the sheet. I don't like to hang around with people who wear sheets. Fuckin' Ty Cobb is always wearing his when he was smacking around the nigra clubhouse attendants. Plus why did you cover all of your face except for that stupid freaking mustache?"
"It's a family heirloom. I am going to leave to my grandson so he can wear it some day. He is going to be a famous writer too!"
"Sure thing keed. Let's get started."

Populism is Getting Very Popular These Days

The video is edited to show a blatant display of British nationalism up front, but watch the whole thing for the complete remarks. Farage has had the same message for years now. Click on his tag for earlier speeches.

WKRLEM Now Tom Jones shakes the same way all the time

I have a Joe Cocker's Greatest hits that I play and sing along too all the time when I am in the shower.

Especially when I am washing my Joe Cocker. So to speak.

CVS Vignette.....Back off Aunt RIta...cause it's a small world after all!

Now when I had my sing-a-long at CVS another thing happened that was pretty funny.

This imperious old Irish woman had demanded to see the manager and she was berating him. You see there is a cashier who works there who is Jamaican who is pretty hard to understand. She has a very thick accent and she slurs her words like she had too much ganja on her lunch break. She is nice enough but when she is on duty we go to the self service line. Or we wait for the girl in the wheelchair or the forty year old punk rocker with the pink hair and the forty facial piercings.

You see CVS is a microcosm of America.

Anyway she is yelling at the manager. "How can you have someone working here like that? I can't understand anything she is saying. She talks so low. Why did you hire some one like that. She can't even speak English! Say something I am talking to you."

You see she was a nasty imperious bitch like my Aunt Rita. And someone else you might know.

We were just walking by on the way to the line at Pharmacy. I turn to the wife and tell her "This is a microcosm of the America right here." Oh and the manager. Well he looked like this:

"I am very very sorry Mrs. I will try to do better in my hiring practices in the future."

You have to laugh.

So we are leaving and the wife is backing out of our handicapped spot. And who comes barreling out of the store but Aunt Rita. She pushes her shopping cart right behind us and we have to stop because she would have been run over. The wife waves at her to go but she pulls back to let us back out. She even gives some hand signals to help as we are leaving. We drive away and think nothing of it.

Postscript: Today we had to get the car inspected. There was a whole saga involved in that. But to make a long story short we leave the car at the shop and go across the road  to this tiny hole in the wall diner. Now I know it is good because all the working men from the auto shops come in to eat. Great comfort food. Burgers. Frankfurters. Chili. Meatloaf. I have a delicious burger served on rye bread with fries, coleslaw and a pickle. I was in freaking heaven. Now the way this joint is set up there is a four top against the wall and a two seater right next to it cheek to jowl. We sit down at the four top and are chowing down and guess who walks in and sits next to us? That's right. Aunt Rita. With a date.

As she is sitting down she looks at us and says "I know you." We are laughing she walked in and explain to her how she knows us. It's a small fucking world after all. We eat and chat and tell stories and have some fun. She is a nasty old cunt but I charmed her. That's my specialty.

The punchline?

Her date was a black dude.

Only in America.

WKRLEM Tom shows you he has the pipes!

Even in the Midnight Hour!

CVS Vignette.....I don't wanna wait....

The wife and I had to go to CVS to pick up some medications and of course the line was up your ass. It looked like a Trump rally. Now in CVS they always play this over bearing music that is heavily weighted to 1980's tunes So what comes on is the "Dawson's Creek Song."

You know it was fucking ubiquitous back in the day. Some idiot hippie bitch screeching that '"I don't wanna wait for my life to be over.....blah blah blah" at top volume. So I look around... and I start to sing along.

"I don't wanna wait for my life to be over in the line at CVS!" A bunch of other people started singing along.

They opened three more lines.

Form Ever Follows Function...

...except when it doesn't

Overheard at Lem's:

As a side note, my teacher used to make chairs that were art and which were never meant to be sat in.

What happened to form ever follows function?

It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law. ~Louis Sullivan

That's a powerful notion, and I'd say it holds for all of chemistry too, being that chemical structure and function are so entwined.* But the obvious question is which comes first. I mean, things evolve and mutations happen (form changes) and functional changes follow (function or disfunction).

I'm not trying to diss your beautiful piece of work, Sixty; I'm just struck by how your chair's actual function challenges its form. But is the chair not gorgeous to behold itself?  As an imaginary chair?
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*The chemistry term of art "functional group" refers to an interchangeable group of atoms which have a specific function.

WKRLEM: Long TIme Gone....look how young!

Catch the beginning where David Crosby is starring at Tom Jones ass and smiling.



Also doesn't the young Neil Young looks like a monkey?

Ginger or Marjoram

The mother-in-law has a bad case of the flu. I think she gave a Chinaman the kiss of peace or something and she has been pretty sick which is significant if you are 81 like her. So I have been making a lot of soups to warm her up and give her some nourishment. Now of course I made my normal chicken soup from scratch but I try to mix it up and give some variety. So I ask the eternal question:

Ginger or Marjoram?

2 cups chicken stock preferable low sodium
2 cups water
1 cup orzo or tubatini or ance pepe or pastene or some other small guinea macaroni
1/2 cup minced marjoram
2 eggs
6 tablespoons grated cheese (Not Kraft ricpic)

Put the chick stock and water in a pot and bring to a boil. Throw in the macaroni and cook it in the broth. Mince up the marjoram or chop it up in the food processor. Put it in a bowl with some grated cheese and break the two eggs in it and smush it all around. Pour this mess into the broth and stir it all around after you take it off the heat. Serve hot.

2 cups chicken stock preferentially low sodium
2 cups water
8 garlic gloves finely sliced
8  thin slices of fresh ginger
2 cups of egg noodles

Sautee the garlic and ginger in olive oil until soft. Add the stock and the water and bring to a boil. Throw in the egg noodles and cook them until soft. You know with soft is I don;t have tell you since that prostate thing. Garnish with some diced parsley.

Two quick and easy recipes. Of the mother-in-law wouldn't eat them so I had to make more home made chicken soup. Still these are quick and easy soups. So I askes ya?

Ginger or Marjoram?

WKRLEM You can't munch on that carpet...it's Dusty.

Why Kobe Beef Is So Expensive

Because it is flown in by helicopter.