I started up my Netflix subscription again. Rob and I got a bunch of DVDs just the other day and it dawned on me that I will only watch the DVDs one time and that’s it. What a waste! Besides, the last few weeks have seen me in a real movie mood. The first movie in my queue was Where’s Poppa. I saw it years ago and I remember it being so very politically incorrect and wrong in many ways. I also remember laughing very hard. Rob and I watched it last night. At least we attempted to watch it. Rob had me turn it off because it was so slow and boring. Maybe we just weren’t patient enough to wait for the movie to pick up? I don’t know. It could have been that I originally watched it on late night television and all the extraneous bits were cut out to make it fit the time slot. Once Where’s Poppa’s was out, Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations went in. The second episode was insane. Anthony went to Quebec and hunted with an Inuit family. They shot a seal, brought it home and butchered it on the kitchen floor. The entire family then descended on the bloody carcass and consumed it raw…right there on the kitchen floor. I have never seen anything like that in my entire life. They offered Anthony one of the seal’s eyes which he slit open and sucked dry. I admire him. I really honestly do. Here, you can watch it on Youtube. If you dare!
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They had a Bette Davis Day on like AMC, I think, a little while ago, and I DVR’ed “Now Voyager” because I remembered liking it, and Steve watched it with me last night. Man, that movie is messed up. Bette Davis is in love with a married man and she goes to a “retreat” (sanitarium) and later meets up with the guy’s 12-yr-old daughter in the same sanitarium and basically adopts her, so that she can be close in some way to the married man. It’s completely dysfunctional.
Tony Bordain is a true food jock (in the best sense.) Chefs aren’t brain surgeons but goods ones are good with food and he is fun! Maybe it’s that French thing. Those guys will eat anything that moves! I took a cheese book out of the library and there is a cheese from a particular region where the cheese makers encourage a particular WORM to live in the cheese and it’s a delicacy to eat the cheese–worms and all! I guess the worms taste good from their cheese diet? Wow!