If it wasn’t for the season pass feature on my DVR, I’d miss ‘Better Call Saul’ every week. I do like how Jimmy or Saul’s brother is played by someone that was in one of my favorite ‘X-Files’ episodes, which ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Better Call Saul’ creator Vince Gilligan was a big part of. I also get a kick out the opening of each ‘Saul’ episode as each one is different. You know, we never got to see Jessie Pinkman’s aunt, who died of cancer and gave Jessie her house. I wonder if Saul will end up representing her at some point in this prequel. Oh, and that place Mike dined at after his shift sure did have a Pulp Fiction’ feel to it.
Last night’s ‘Saul’ S&H Green Stamps. I remember seeing those around our house in Mineral Wells and I was a young little Geeding. For the longest time, I actually thought those were food stamps since they were related to grocery shopping.
It just feels too early to move our clocks up an hour this weekend.
‘CBS Sunday Morning’ had a great segment about the Yellowstone National Park winter caretaker who has been doing the job for 42-years. If you ever saw The Shining, it’s kinda like that, but he’s alone and sane and lives in a small cabin without any television. You can view or read about the segment here.
One of my more frequent, thoughtful, and favorite commenters was curious as to the latest on the Baker Hotel renovation in my hometown of Mineral Wells. I had no idea so I had to look it up and found something about ten days old and something else from Sunday. It seems like the largest investment partner, Dallas-based Civitas Capital Group, a “5B foreign investment component”, backed out thinking not enough jobs would be created. However, a new 5B foreign investment component partner, Florida based Pathways, has stepped in and now they are waiting for the Department of Immigration’s approval for something which can take about nine to twelve months. Part of me thinks restoration will never see the light of day, and sometimes I wonder if that would be best, though in my heart I want it to happen. So right now they are a year behind their initial start date, but hope to start in 2016.
Speaking of Mineral Wells, Kevin Rahm, who was born there and is most known for his role in ‘Mad Men’, is doing a guest spot on CBS’s ‘Madam Secretary’.
When it comes to chores in the house, I’m usually the bathroom cleaner.
WifeGeeding has a friend that lives in the area and works for Exxon, but Exxon may be sending her and her family to Dubai for a permanent assignment.
The TICKET is diversifying from talk radio and will be starting its own local music show. The show will be called The Local Ticket and will debut on Sunday, March 22 and will run in a two-hour time slot each week from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m
I mentioned how dark a Superman/Batman cartoon was the other day, this dark comic involving Toy Story figures reminded me of it.
After a beheading, the victim is conscious for roughly ten or twelve seconds before the brain loses its blood supply.
The guillotine is named for Dr. Joseph Ignance Guillotin. He didn’t invent it, just lobbied for its use because at the time he felt it was more humane than hanging.
"someone that was in one of my favorite ‘X-Files’ episodes"
I like that one too. And this weekend I saw the one about the shape-shifter who trapped Mulder, took his place, and was about to kiss Scully when the real Mulder barged in. It seems that replacing Mulder in any of several ways was a constant theme.
Also, the guy from Saul played Lenny, from Laverne and Shirley. I'm old.
We saw that segment on the winter caretaker and found it to be fascinating, too. What a solitary, yet obviously rewarding, life. It would appear to have cost him his marriage…but who knows if it was the job/location, or something else? The thought of long winter nights with nothing to do but read sounds wonderful. The thought of not being able to run to Taco Bueno for 4-5 months sounds not so wonderful. Everything has pros and cons, I suppose.
"someone that was in one of my favorite ‘X-Files’ episodes"
I like that one too. And this weekend I saw the one about the shape-shifter who trapped Mulder, took his place, and was about to kiss Scully when the real Mulder barged in. It seems that replacing Mulder in any of several ways was a constant theme.
Also, the guy from Saul played Lenny, from Laverne and Shirley. I'm old.
We saw that segment on the winter caretaker and found it to be fascinating, too. What a solitary, yet obviously rewarding, life. It would appear to have cost him his marriage…but who knows if it was the job/location, or something else? The thought of long winter nights with nothing to do but read sounds wonderful. The thought of not being able to run to Taco Bueno for 4-5 months sounds not so wonderful. Everything has pros and cons, I suppose.
I love Dreamland! Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Johnny Cash.
And then when his "not wife" catches him not watching porn, that was awesome.
I remember collecting those stamps as a kid. I ended up saving enough to get a football. 🙂