The Saturday Picture Show, June 4, 2022

 

This is pretty clever, a steak that looks like the US of A, but consarn it, the Maryland/Delaware/New Jersey area looks like tough gristle.

This was the second annual Josh Fight. It's not really a fight, more like a flash mob that started when a guy named Josh Swain got on social media to invite every other Josh Swain to come to Lincoln, Nebraska to duke it out over who had the right to be King Of All Josh Swains.

I understand that Jennifer Connelly is in this new Tom Cruise movie about flying airplanes, but we true fans still love her from 1991's "Career Opportunities," where she starred with Frank Whaley in a film best known for her roller skating around a Target store. Don't you know, every time I step into a Target, I keep an eye out for her to come rocketing out from the light bulb display.

Number 23812 in a series of photos that explain why women live longer than men.

I love to see a woods where new volunteer trees take their place amongst the tall old ones.

From 2007, Jim Parsons standing by a poster promoting his new show "The Big Bang Theory." He had no idea that the series would run for 12 seasons and give birth to a "prequel," and I am glad that it worked out for him.

What we call a "Tempest in a teapot," the British call a "Storm in a teacup." It's an expression for when someone makes a BFD (big freakin' deal!) out of something minor. Some people just looooooove that drama!

Something I am going to do someday (and it might be today, who knows?) is go into a McD's and order a Big Mac, while showing them this picture and asking that my sandwich look like the one in the ad.

Mt. Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, burying the city of Pompeii under a thick blanket of 13 to 20 feet of ash and pumice. We are still learning about life near Naples, Italy in that long-ago time, but recent excavations have made it clear that they did indeed have buffet dining among their restaurant choices.

If you have Netflix, give "Stranger Things" a break for an hour and check out Norm MacDonald's "Nothing Special." The late great Norm had planned a standup to be filmed in spring of 2020, and you know how that worked out, what with the Covid and all. He had the material in mind last fall when he knew his days were short, so he arranged to tape his final performance the night before he went to the hospital. It's a sad sweet goodbye from a man whose intelligence was far too vast for this world.