“I’m an air traffic controller. It gets very stressful, so once a year I flip out and punch my fist through a radar screen, and I get sent here.”

broderic on September 9, 2020

Bill & Ted Face the Music is the first movie that I have seen in a long while. I did not see it at the movie theater. I paid to watch it at home.

Paying for first run movies this way is going to be the wave of the future. We’ll never go back to sitting in the dark with a couple dozen strangers staring at the large silver screen. Who wants to laugh and then inhale someone else’s COVID-19? Sadly, I would as I think the experience of watching it at home on my television diminished the awe. It was literally watching television and not a film.

So the third installment finds Bill and Ted needing to write that hit song that would unite the world. They had spent 20 years not writing it. They thought they had, but it wasn’t it, so we got the sequel to the sequel. Again some time traveling hi-jinks ensue. Add in their daughters and more historical dudes and the phone booth, which is very anachronistic nowadays, and you have a righteous romp back to simpler days.

The film very much would like to make these troubling times better. It wants us to feel that we can overcome these roadblocks. It was written for us to have fun in the days of Trump, but now after it was delayed, it was written for us to smile in the Covid-19 Days. That’s what I felt. Some happiness to spend time with some characters that I sort of been attached to for most of my life. I need it. We need it. Bill and Ted make it happen.

3 of 5 stars.

“Well, it wasn’t even jail. It was juvie.”

broderic on September 21, 2019

Link of the Day [9.21.19]

Twenty-four singles and for each they change their uniform. These are just their everyday garb. They also have a costume for when they perform the songs from that single.

I like the later ones than the earlier ones. I’m partial to the winter ones with stockings in place of socks. I like the ones with jackets and vests. The skirt length has gotten longer,

Anyhow, go check out the youngest in Nogizaka as she wears all the 24 uniforms. There’s even a bonus few more representing each successive generation.

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“Welcome to the Terrordome! Once again back IS the incredible, rhyme animal – D. Public Enemy Number 1! Kickin’ it live with Biz-nil McNeal!”

broderic on September 14, 2019

Ready Or Not?

Movies in theatres are in decline. It’s missing the mid-level movies. It’s nothing but block busters. There’s really nothing showing. Ready Or Not? was a small summer movie. It would’ve been a mid-level movie, but compared to all the rest released this summer, it would’ve fit that bill years ago.

The craziest part of this movie is that it was a deal with the devil. The actual devil! I wasn’t expecting that.

Any how watch it when it comes on cable.

3 of 5 stars.

“Come on, Lisa, you know how people feel about Yoko Ono.”

broderic on September 3, 2019

I bought a rack of ribs the other day during my weekly grocery shopping. I’ve never cooked ribs. I’ve eaten them, but never cooked. You see ribs seem to be best cooked in a smoker or on the grille. Yet, I’ve eaten them from the oven. My mom does it. My uncle does it. I guess I’ll have to do it.

I halved the rack last night. If I’m going to mess this up, I’ll at least have the other have to try. One half went into the freezer. The other I seasoned with salt, freshly ground black pepper, onion powder, and garlic powder. I placed this half into the fridge waiting for today to cook.

I then busily went about looking at youtube videos and DuckDuckGo search results for how to cook ribs in the oven. Most of the recipes were for barbecue style with a wet sauce. I wanted it dry. Most of the recipes had the rack cooking for 3 to 4 hours. I decided to try half that because it was half a rack. Most recipes cooked the ribs wrapped in aluminum foil. I left it open to the oven.

So how’d I do it? Here’s how…

Oven preheated to 350F. Pulled the half rack out of the fridge about 30 minutes before it went in. When it did, I let it cook for about an hour. Checked on it, put in under some aluminum foil, then left it in for another 25 minutes. Then I went about broiling it. Five minutes on one side at high — this is the side with the meat. Three minutes on low on the side with the bones. I took it out and covered it again with the aluminum foil for another 5 minutes. I think it was done. Cut it up and plated it.

It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t as juicy and succulent. It was a bit dry, and the thicker parts were somewhat tough. The cartilage was tough to eat. I ate this half rack wishing it was better. I guess I know where to start making it better. First, read this blog post to see where I went wrong. Next, the half rack sitting in the freezer…

“Seriously, Dave. If that eulogy went on a minute longer it would have been yours.”

broderic on September 27, 2018

It’s raining, and it’s cold.  The boys of summer should be shutting down.  

But of course I am talking the Orioles. They’ve been shut down since the start of the season.  Did they even show up?

The rain kept me from catching the last game of my season ticket package.  I wanted to see Adam Jones patrol the outfield one last time.  Sadly, I don’t want to sit in the rain, so I cancelled before I even went.  Thank the lord that the rain keeps going and the game was postponed.

This was the worst team ever.  They were hard to watch.  Then I didn’t want to watch.  The entire city of Baltimore too didn’t want to watch.  We stayed away in droves.  They kept losing in droves.  They also drove everyone insane with the losses.

I witnessed several seasons of bad Orioles baseball before Buck Showalter showed up.  But they were still easy to watch and root for.  This version you can’t want to watch.  It’s awful.  Now I know the difference between .333 and .400.  It’s really painful.

I wish for a better season next year.  Perhaps my money won’t be wasted.