Well, dear readers, today’s (yesterday, really) luncheon was ever so much better – I had a Club Sandwich and it was quite yummiliscious, although there didn’t seem to be an actual club anywhere in sight, hence why call it a Club Sandwich to begin with? Why don’t they call it a Really Big Sandwich That Has Bacon, Turkey, Lettuce, Tomato That Is So Large You Can Barely Get Your Mouth Around It (or RBSTHBTLTTISLYCBGYMAI, for short). Yes, by gum and by golly, I think we should have a petition to officially change the name of a Club Sandwich to RBSTHBTLTTISLYCBGYMAI, and if people don’t sign the petition then we’ll simply have to club them, oh, yes, we’ll simply have to club them. Of course, Club Sandwich is totally arbitrary, isn’t it – it could just as easily been a Spade Sandwich or a Diamond Sandwich or a Heart Sandwich. Perhaps one of you dear readers can tell us the real derivation of Club Sandwich.
That was quite a treatise on the Club Sandwich, wasn’t it? That treatise was almost as large as the sandwich was. Last night, I watched a DVD entitled The Horsemen, a film of John Frankenheimer. It’s one of the only Frankenheimer films I hadn’t seen so it was fun to finally see it. First off, the transfer of this film is stunning; scope, gorgeous color and sharp as a tack. I know it’s probably heresy, but to my eye it looks sharper and better than even the Superbit Lawrence of Arabia, although I haven’t watched that all the way through. The film doesn’t quite work (the script by Dalton Trumbo is a bit turgid), but boy does Frankenheimer direct the Club Sandwich out of the action scenes. The score is by Georges Delerue, the spectacular camerawork is by the likes of Claude Renoir, and Omar Sharif gives one of the finest performances of his career. Also excellent is Jack Palance as his father – one of Palance’s best roles.
What am I, Ebert and Roeper all of a sudden? Why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below so we can ponder some more of the imponderables or, at the very least, the Ponderosa and the Club Sandwich.
I got a lovely pre-birthday present from dear readers Kerry and MusicGuy – a nice big box of See’s Candies. I shall be enjoying them for a few weeks to come (it’s a big box). P.S. After writing the above, I came home and ate ten pieces of See’s, and they were splendiferous.
Work is getting, as usual, very intense. Some really long days coming up, working on Saturday all day, but I’ll have my See’s to get me through. And, of course, I’m working on my birthday as well, although I don’t intend to work late that night. I don’t know what, in fact, I’m doing for my birthday since no one has even queried me about it, save for my pal Nick Redman, who will be back from England about that time and who’ll take me out sometime that week. What fun we shall have. Perhaps we’ll have a Club Sandwich, or, as we’ve renamed it, the RBSTHBTLTTISLYCBGYMAI.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must work all the livelong day and then I may try to see the motion picture entitled The Cooler. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day and also Ask Dear Reader Day so ask you excellent questions and I shall answer them throughout the day as I can. In the meantime, let’s have loads of lovely posts, shall we?