Take This Thing Back to Baltimore

2014-10-09                 'There are two rules in Fight Club', Brad Pitt says it better in the David Fincher movie of the same name, before enumerating the first ®ule followed by, you guessed it, the second, namely 'that there is no / Fight Club.'   There are two rules in black-out drinking, someone else wrote it better, firstly that if you can't remember it, it didn't / happen, and secondly that if you can't remember it, it probably / happened.         By ©intrast, there is but one rule on a calling-in-sad-day-from-work day, and that is to never, never leave / the ©indominium,   'now do you think' - What Would Jack Say to wife Wendy after enumerating some new rules of his own in Stanley Kubrick's version of your The Shining, innit Mr. King, before during and after enumerating some new ®ules of / his own in that movie - 'you can handle / that?'   'Ain't a hard ti...

2014-10-08                             Just as it's hard to stop / d®inking, and hard to stop (s) / (b) / (f) / (v) logging, it's hard once you start to stop / eating.   Though he made it through another retirement lunch without imbibing the 'amusing' - the Smithsonian scientist in Jonathan Demme’s take on Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs says it better by way of macking on Jodie Foster’s Agent Starling in that movie - 'house wine', and / or in this case the house / bee®, Cin's unquenched thirst led him to not three but four visits to the 'all', Andrew Dice Clay called it better, though his reference was more to the lobster than the lobster / bisque 'you can fuckin' eat' / buffet this after.   'They're not making any money' Cin said it better to a colleague afterwards, 'off / us.'   Of all of the trappings of College that Cin misse...

07-October-2014                                  'How would you like that,' Robert Mitchum playing Eddie Coyle in the movie of the same name akses it better, of his bartender, 'your wife and kids / on welfare?'   It's a solid movie, and though its title doesn't qualify for any of the 'we're going to make' - What Would Jack Say - 'a new rule' / The Category, namely that editions of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore (f) / (b) / (s) / Plan (c) / log hulk-smashed on a date that falls on the 7th of the month is brought to you by music and / or movies that begin with the letter 'g' because 7 th letter of the alphabet, 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' will still get horroreviewed up on out on up on out up here, seeing as it's a rental from Cin's new video store, and is due / tomorrow.          ...

06 - October - 2014           Flog                                   'Well it's not' Cin said it better, if more thoughtlessly yesterday evening, referring to the just-cooked food, after being complimented, not unjustifiably, for the meal that he was about / to provide to guests in Luskvegas, 'going to cook / itself', it was a slight barb at his Ma, who had wisely absented herself from the kitchen as the pork roast got, well, roasted in preparation for their dinner guests, leaving Cin to do the - minimal - preparation.                   Also 'get it / yourself' is his new line when it comes to serving guests / booze, it's a more b®utalist line, though he did last night fill a carafe with white...

30-09-2-14            Ext®eme / p®ejudi©e                     'This may have been my mission', Martin Sheen's Captain Willard says it better in Coppola's Apocalyse Now of his nefarious trip to exterminate Colonel Kurtz's mission, with ext®eme / p®ejudi©e, 'but it sure as hell was / the Captain's boat', and your humble / humbled / humiliated narrator of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and ext®eme / p®ejudi©e   may have bought and paid for this cindominium up on out on up in here, but it is sure as hell is your men the cats   Itchy and Scratchy's / crib, ext®eme / p®ejudi©e is all / we gots.                   If looks could kill, this edition of this Take This Thing Back to Baltimore me-moirs and ext®eme / p®ejudi©e   would be after...

                 29-09-2014                   'After midnight', Clapton sings it better, 'we're going to let it all / hang out.'   As tempting - and as late as it is this Tuesday evening - to let it all hang out, it is not yet after midnight, and Cin like Clapton had to learn the hard way that letting it all hang out can lead to no No End of T®ouble, to Out ©ome / the ©uffs, and so he will stick with just the facts / ma'am.                   'I can't wait,' one of the heroines of the film Return to 'Nuke 'Em High says it better – before during and after witnessing one of her classmate's head implode after exposure to, you guessed it, nuclear sludge becaue Nuke ‘Em High - 'to go home and write about this / in my blog', and so it is t...

24-09-2014                   'If I wanted to be analyzed', Gene Hackman's character says it better in I never sang for my Father , 'I'd pay / for it.'   Cin's a big fan of serendipity – horro®egime Ze®o if nothing else allows for its adherents to play it more by ear than they would have been able to four beers into a 6 beer / night - and this movie will get horroreviewed for its very topicality, 'when are they coming back' the cinsellor who Cin pays to analyse him aksed it better this after, of Cin's M and P, 'imminently' Cin replied, it seemed as good an answer as any, it got a laugh out of the cinsellor anyway, getting a laugh out the cinsellor is all / we gots.                   Course this movie like Cin's life up on out up on out on this Dog and Pony Show has more than its share of bad melodramatics and ...