A Fair Is A Veritable Smorgasbord

Well my birthday is tomorrow, or today for any one reading this after midnight, and I’ve already celebrated it Saturday. I got a hand full of games, a little cash, and had a nice meal. I also watched The Sons Of Katy Elder starring John Wayne and Dean Martin which was a really good picture. It’s funny to see how even in his 50’s Wayne cut a pretty imposing figure. Dean Martin is about 6’1, I believe, and John Wayne completely dwarfed him.

My parents also got me a copy of the soundtrack to Pete Kelly’s Blues which Jack Webb Starred in and Directed. It’s vinyl so they got an album frame for it, and I now have it hung up in my room. I would take a picture, but I can’t find my camera at the moment. All I can say is that it has a picture of Webb looking through a camera on the cover, and any one who knows me knows I am a huge fan of Jack Webb.

Beyond birthday things I went to church with my family for father’s day, and tonight my grandfather came over to watch All The Kings Men, which was an excellent if not nearly horrifying movie, and may some day stand as a prophetic statement about the Obama presidency (The film is actually based on the former governor of Louisiana Huey Long who was assassinated on September 8th 1935). So all in all it’s been a pretty family oriented weekend.

On the job front I got a call today from an insurance company, but it was commission only so I said no thanks. I hope I get something soon. Socialism is bad for people, and I can already see myself slipping back into my old habits. Of course I only worked for 7 days, non consecutively, but it did make a big difference.

I also forgot to mention I went thrift store hopping on Saturday. I didn’t find anything interesting or useful, but I did buy a 50 cent copy of “Scientology: A New Slant On Life”, not by L. Ron Hubbard, but with his name on the cover (some people, though non who are probably reading this blog know what that means). I was hoping to find a fun and crazy read, but it’s not the deep down insider stuff. It reads more like a really long self help pamphlet. Common sense things about perspective, and how it relates to happiness and fulfillment. In other words it’s a recruitment tool more than anything else.

The church of Scientology is good at keeping the real stuff under wraps, but I find out things here and there. It’s a sort of hobby of mine I guess you could say. Not that I have some kind of vested interest in the church one way or another, but I just find holistic medicine and other crazy stuff entertaining to no end. I don’t care what Tom Cruise does or says on all of this, and I think it’s childish and stupid that we’re all expected to stop taking him seriously as an actor because of his beliefs. Valkyrie was a pretty intense picture despite all the hating.

And here’s a little something to leave you with tonight. I looked it up on YouTube due to the fact, as I did mention, my boss sounded like Paul Lynde. I found it under the title “Templeton Weight Gain - Extended Cut”. In case you’ve not farmed the darker edges of the internet as I have this title is telling us something important. You see weight gain fetishists are people who are sexually aroused by the idea of animals (I’m saying animals as I believe this is mostly a furry phenomenon) who eat and gain weight rapidly.

You know at some level I almost think it should be a crime for me to watch a fond childhood memory, and be made to feel uncomfortable by perverts. Generally I’m a little more understanding about these things, but these people are perverts and make me sick.