Author: Richard Nestoff (Page 1 of 62)

Dumb blondes in bed with popcorn.

A few weeks ago, I started watching the Popcorn In Bed Youtube channel.  It’s a reaction channel featuring two cute blondes watching movies.  The movies are chosen by member surveys and are generally very good.  The channel is an easy way to watch a familiar movie in a half-hour rather than a couple of hours.

The two women are charming, and started the channel with virtually no knowledge of movies.  Initially, they weren’t familiar with actors such as Sigourney Weaver and Bruce Willis.  They don’t know much about history or other topics that might be considered “common knowledge”.  It’s usually cute, but occasionally astounding.

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It’s a solid winter.

When I woke up this morning, the outside temperature was 1.4o F and we’ve got drifting snow.  It hasn’t been this cold, with this much snow, for so long, since Sparky moved in.  He won’t complain, but Sparky isn’t going to like going outside for his morning constitutional.

I am tempted to compel Sparky to plow through a snow drift. 

Sparky does some snow climbing.

“A man’s got to know his limitations.”

Sparky tells me that all the time.  He spends too much time watching Dirty Harry movies, but I kind of agree with him.  In that spirit, he can do what he wants as long as he stays within certain guidelines.  Mostly, don’t wander off and don’t poop in the house.

Today, he decided was going in the creek.  He goes in the upstream side all the time, but that’s only a couple of feet deep.  The downstream side is much deeper.

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Sparky is licking his chops.

 

Sparky is licking his chops as he eagerly waits for me to finish making his breakfast. 

He gets half of a hard-boiled egg, and a third of a cup of buffalo.  That’s what he calls it.  He gets Blue Buffalo Chicken Blend dog food for old people, but it’s got a wolf on the bag, so he could probably eat a buffalo if he wanted.

Summer School isn’t like the movies.

I’ve been scanning and organizing old photos.

This is from teaching summer school at Cleveland Heights.  The photos look like one of those “White savior” teacher movies where the young White woman is teaching the urban kids that society has given up on.  She sees something of value in each and every one, and somehow, ignites a love of learning.

Teaching a bunch of Black kids at an urban school wasn’t like that, but if they make a movie, I want to be played by Gwyneth Paltrow.

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Sparky slips the leash.

That’s a bad sign.

Stacked wood attracts mice and mice attract Sparky.  He likes to sniff behind the racks.  When I saw the leash sticking out of one side of the rack and Sparky sticking out of the other side, I knew something happened.

Somehow Sparky slipped out of his Inspector Gadget jacket.

Sparky came back, so I let him run around naked for a little while.  With the snow and cold, there wasn’t much danger that he would go on walkabout.

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