Plastic Bags and Good Coworkers

Cat owners and clumping litter.  If you’re one, you probably know about the other.  You probably know about using plastic shopping bags from the grocery store, and other stores, to put the clumps of urine and desiccated feces in before placing in your garbage can.  If you’re from H***** you know that these same bags have been unconstitutionally outlawed.  And how everyone was gleefully jerking each other off when this happened.  What the shit are we cat owners supposed to do now?  

After hearing me complain about my treatment by the tyrannical H**** government, they have begun to bring me their plastic bags.  I save them in a drawer till I have a lot and then I bring them home.  Where I fill them with clumps of urine and desiccated feces.  And then I add them to the H***** garbage system.  

If we work together we can fight unjust systems.  And in this case win.  Soon they’ll ban plastic shopping bags in New York.  But we’ll get smarter, and we’ll fight harder, making sure this plastic bag arms race ends in either mutual destruction or the birth of a more just society.  

Changed By Tom Cantor

When you received an unsolicited book in the mail you read it.  One of my sort of rules in life is to occasionally read a completely random book, a found book.  So you have to actually find a book.  Maybe you see one on the discount table and just like the title, and knowing nothing about it or the author, you just buy it for $2.50 and read it.  Maybe it comes to you in the mail.  In this instance the book was Changed, by Tom Cantor, mailed to me for no reason.  I read it.  

This book was pure crap printed on glossy paper.  The author was a typically rebellious kid and screwed around some as a young man.  That and the rape of his wife, who he though would make him a cleansed man, his terminology, made him feel bad about himself.  So even though he was Jewish, he turned to Jesus.  Completely idiotic.  There, I’ve saved you from having to read this shit.

Also he mentions a person who was in the Gestapo and the SS.  Seems unlikely.

So despite the bad review, if you get this slick dog shit in the mail, read it.

Run Over By A Paralyzed Dog

I saw this in my notes, and said, “Whatever this is, I’m gonna finish it.”

Then I had to remember why I made this note.

It came to me.

I was walking down the street and a dog who was paralyzed and in one of those paralyzed dog contraptions, ran over my foot.

I think it was a pug.

The owner was apologetic.  

I said I didn’t mind.

How often do you get run over by a paralyzed dog?  

The Children of Times Square

 “An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.”  Quoted from IMDb — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090829/

That’s it.  That’s what the movie is all about.  Except they aren’t pickpockets.  

Some observations.  

There is great footage of New York in the 80’s.

Our hero, Eric Roberts, not to be confused with the actor, lives the TV perfect life in Pennsylvania.  He wants to go see his favorite band, The Raybops, (If you’re looking for a band name, please take note.)  His step father insists he stay home to babysit his toddler stepbrother.  Of course Eric sneaks out to see the concert.  At the concert the band is announced, all the kids jump up and scream . . . Cut.  We never get to hear the band. I really wanted to hear The Raybops.  

There is another young man, who’s house burns down, forcing him and his family to stay in a welfare hotel.  He also joins the gang of juvenile delinquents.  During one of his scenes, he comes home after a successful day of delivering cocaine packets around 1980’s New York.  As he’s getting into bed, a giant roach, American Cockroach, is seen descending the wall behind his bed.  That is realism.  Did the director plan that and place the roach on the wall, or was that a happy accident?

One of the juvenile delinquent kids wears a belt around his head.

It is Courtney Gains’ first role, confirmed by my extensive Wikipedia research.  He was in it for not more than thirty seconds, and his face was barely visible.  I jumped up and said, “Wait!  It’s that guy!  In all the movies!”  

It is a made for TV movie.  I didn’t know that, until I began my research for this article.  

Final analysis: amazingly entertaining bad movie.