No link. Listened to New York Radio Hour - specifically David Remnick talking to Newt Gingrich.

Never have been a fan of Newt - but I kinda like to check in on my assumptions from time to time.

Hah - still the same, now proudly sporting an armband of hypocrisy.

I dunno .. Marky, Halle AND J.K. .. great cast .. so you expect a bit more than average? Don’t you? That said the choreography of chasing the case down the side of a building was well done. But if that’s the peak .. you wonder why I gave it 3 stars. Don’t you?

Three and a half stars … rounding up to 4 .. just for the audacity to remake Rambo and not give Sky any credit. Seriously .. not bad at all.

Watched on Saturday October 5, 2024.

More on Kris

I ’never’ do this - so take this as the exception that proves the rule. We all know that 🖇️ Kris K recently passed - on Maui

My friend Randall wrote to me (these extracts reproduced with his permission)

Such a sad loss of a hero whom I actually knew …. Sarah Teed and I had the privilege of a hanging w/ him and John Prine when we played the Castle theater many years ago and I opened for him at the MACC many times sharing moments with him and his wife Lisa.

Randall went on and shared some Kris wisdom …

”He believed that songwriting is a spiritual communion of mind, body, and soul, and he believed that William Blake was correct in asserting that anyone divinely ordered for spiritual communion but buries his talent will be pursued by sorrow and desperation through life and by shame and confusion for eternity.

” (Blake) is telling you that you’ll be miserable if you don’t do what you’re supposed to do," Kristofferson said in the Ken Burns' documentary ‘Country Music’.”

Cute. A good watch on a lazy sunny afternoon.

Anyone successfully — or not — following Threads or BlueSky in Microblog?

📸 A couple o' friends hanging at the bus stop.

Just listened to Gilbert’s 2024 release - he’s 78 for goodness sake. Not bad - but the classics are definitely not improved .. like the original 🔗 🎵 Nothing Rhymed .. always a place in my heart for this one. (I always liked his singles - but it was my sister that introduced me to the albums (my natural musical habitat.)