Well, dear readers, I don’t know about you but I, for example, am having a wonderfully wonderful holiday weekend. I feel really fine and fancy-free. I love when my fancy is free, don’t you? I just don’t like to pay for my fancy, although I have done so in the past, but never more than $5.34. Yes, I’m feeling fine and fancy-free for any number of reasons, specifically eight. I am feeling fine and fancy-free for eight reasons. What those reasons are, are for me to know and you to find out. What am I, four? Next I’ll be saying “Meet me at the flagpole.” Does anyone still have a flagpole and, if so, do they meet people there? These are the questions that are roaming around the windmills of my holiday mind. Where was I? Oh, yes, I’m feeling fine and fancy-free, not necessarily in that order. I had a wonderful night’s sleep, which was interrupted for a moment when the phone rang at eight-thirty. I didn’t take the call and I went right back to sleep and didn’t get up until eleven at which time I felt both fine and fancy-free. I then answered e-mails, had two telephonic conversations of importance, and then I did a few errands and whatnot, and picked up a nice big package that contained several tapes that could conceivably provide four new Kritzerland releases. So, that was very nice. I then listened to many CDs while doing work on the computer, and the next thing I knew it was time to mosey on over to Hamburger Hamlet for my early (six o’clock) dinner. Dinner was lots o’ fun and lasted over two hours. After that, I came home, listened to more CDs, watched a little of Stanley Kubrick’s Killer’s Kiss in high definitions, and then I listened to more CDs.
Prior to leaving for dinner, I did manage to watch one count them one motion picture on DVD, entitled Invasion USA, one of the most deliriously wacko movies ever made and one of my all-time favorite Z movies. It stars three of my favorites – Mr. Gerald Mohr, Miss Peggie Castle (so beautiful), and Mr. Dan O’Herlihy as Mr. Ohman (just pronounce it and you’ll get the idea). Most of the film takes place in a bar. Several people gather, listen to a TV broadcast about world events and the atom bomb, and then Mr. Ohman does some mass hypnotism and everyone has a flash forward to what could be in these United States of America when it is invaded by an unnamed but somewhat Russian-sounding enemy. San Francisco is “taken” as are other key cities. About forty-five to fifty minutes of the film’s seventy-three minute running time is stock footage of airplanes dropping bombs, tanks, and other military stuff. The scenes are hilariously hilarious. Gerald and Peggie having a cozy supper whilst the news on TV reports that atom bombs are dropping and cities are being taken. They look concerned for about a tenth of a second, then go on with their love talk and some kissing. The dialogue is risible but very quotable, and it’s just grandly entertaining. The film must have cost all of $50,000 to make, so, surprisingly it’s directed by the man who’d just done The Jolson Story, Alfred E. Green. Mr. Green made quite a few feature films from the 1930s on, and then he suddenly went into TV and never made a movie again (he directed a lot of The Millionaire episodes). He not only did The Jolson Story, he did The Eddie Cantor Story, The Jackie Robinson Story, and Top Banana. One other point of interest is that both Noel Neill and Phyllis Coates have roles in the film – they, of course, both went on to play Lois Lane in the Superman TV series. I recommend this highly.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below, because I’m feeling fine and fancy-free and in order to keep doing so I need to hit the road to dreamland.
Today, I have only a few things to do and do them I shall. I have some errands and whatnot to attend to, and then I’ll do some writing, listen to some CDs, and then pick up my friend at the Bank of Bur airport, after which we’ll sup.
Tomorrow will be more of the same, and we’ll be announcing the new Kritzerland release, and then I’m supping with a group of people at Genghis Cohen, which, as you might imagine, I’m quite looking forward to.
And then the holiday weekend will be done, and I get right back to a very busy week of meetings and writing and doing and going.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, try to do a jog, do some errands and whatnot, write, listen, and watch. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I continue feeling fine and fancy-free.