Masking for life
There must be something in the air, and I think I know what it is…
I just saw a video of Benedict Cumberbatch reading something first written in 2011, but my experience with this has been post-pandemic, where it seems like all manners and rules are completely gone, everywhere [1]. Apparently this was a thing ten years earlier, though I was blessedly unaware. And then there was this blog at one of the better websites…
My thought since the eternal March 20, 2020 has been that I am never going to the gym again without a mask because every day, there’s someone who thinks that the appropriate function for the hand drier is to dry their balls [2]. Pandemic or no, not ever going into the gym again without a mask.
[1] don’t get me started on people who just drive with their brights on all the time, and get angry when you give them a courtesy blink. They know they are blinding people, and they mean to do it, and they don’t care that it makes everyone else a more dangerous driver. For example.
[2] and then there are the people who never wash their hands, or wipe a bench.
Gene and Val
For Gene Hackman, I watched some mid-tier things that I had missed before, like Runaway Jury. Fine, but I always go back to Heist. A whole movie of Hackman saying things like:
”He isn’t gonna shoot me? Then he hadn’t oughta point a gun at me. It’s insincere.”
“Don’t you want to hear my last words?” “I just did.”
“I’m not that smart. I try to imagine a fella smarter than myself, then I ask myself, what would he do?”
The little smile at the end is perfect.
For Val Kilmer, of course there is Tombstone, and Top Gun, and Real Genius. Salton Sea, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and a bunch of forgettable stuff, but Spartan is the one I watch over and over.
“In the city, a reflection. In the forest, a sound.”
“What about the desert?”
“You don’t want to go to the desert.”
Ebert liked them both, 3.5 and 4 stars respectively.
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