The Saturday Picture Show, February 24, 2024

 

Ah, mid-February, when all our world turns Orange, and the Orioles are back in spring training, ready for another great year! Can't wait for the season to begin!

I'll tell you, if I had known this movie - The Holdovers - runs for 2 hours and 13 minutes, I might not have wanted to try it. And that would have been a shame, because the minutes flew by. This might be the only time you see these two names in the same sentence, but Paul Giamatti is like Marky Mark Wahlberg to me, in that neither ever made a movie we didn't love.

This is the woodpecker known as the Northern Flicker. It's easy to tell it from the Southern Flicker, which is always seen drinking a Dr Pepper and eating a Moon Pie.

And what have we here? This is the only Danish Butter Cookie can that was NOT turned into a sewing kit. It's someone's first gee-tar!

I just don't trust this expiration date. Dates that someone made up never work well.

I mean, is it not hard enough to be cop in crime-ridden New York, without having to deal with people who keep huge pets, in this case, a 350-lb tiger named "Ming," in their apartment? 

I didn't plan to have two bird pictures this week, but I came across two good ones and here is the other one.

From the days of smoke-filled everything, it's the Casio Calculiter, the perfect thing to pull out of your pants when someone needs a light for their Marlboro Light and also to know the square root of 31741956. (It's 5634, according to my non-lighter phone.)

Trivia time: It was not in the script of The Godfather for Don Corleone to nuzzle a cat while hearing the undertaker Bonasera beg for justice for his daughter. The cat just wandered onto the set and Marlon Brando idly stroked it while reproaching the mortician for lack of respect. 

They say when something is made well, it should last forever. The Rolling Stones' song "Tumblin' Dice" has passed the half-century mark and still sounds like it was recorded yesterday. We all need a little fever in the funkhouse, I tells ya!