Hi-de-ho and happy Saturday! It’s a lovely, sunny winter day here in Texas, and our forecast high will be 62° by mid-afternoon. For those of you who live in the miserable, frozen north, such as all of my relations and pals in Chicago, you have my deepest sympathy.
I don’t know how you can stand it. (Forgive me if I’m being obtuse.)
A few minutes ago I placed a juicy order with
Wal-Mart that included all of the fine products you’ll see pictured below … body wash, Chinese mustard, VO5 shampoo, hand soap, sugar-free chocolate frosting, black olives, Hormel Sandwich Makers and more. In case you’re wondering, I tried to order Mario jumbo pitted black olives but received the following error message during checkout: “This product cannot be shipped to your new zip code.” There is one glaring issue with that statement: I DON’T HAVE A NEW ZIP CODE. Also, there’s something seriously wrong with Wal-Mart’s shopping cart when they’ll ship large pitted olives to my house but not
jumbo pitted olives. What the fuck?
Once again I’ve got a handsome herd of FREE FONTS for you! I actually screwed this up a little bit, though. There are actually
three font bundles represented in the following list, not just two. “Skinny Jeans,” “Bebas Neue” and “Mission Script” are from the Springtime Bundle, “Veruttala,” “Rachellia” and “Mailitta” are from the Handwritten Font Bundle, and “Fully Flared” and “Maranta” are from the 28-in-1 Font Bundle. (Sue me.)
My favorites from today’s freebies are “Dummkopf,” “Forjada” and “Advertising Script.” I’m also very fond of “Georg Comic.” I’ll include download links after the graphic in case you want any of these fonts for your personal collection.
For your possible interest I downloaded the following free textures and background patterns from
Creative Market earlier this week. I honestly have no idea why (or if) I’ll ever use these for anything, but it’s always nice to snag some free shit when you can get it.
Thank you.
Ranking way up there with Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn in
The Iron Petticoat (1956), I am compelled to announce another title on my list of THE WORST MOVIES EVER MADE: 1937’s biopic
PARNELL, starring Clark Gable as the renowned Irish orator Charles Stewart Parnell and Myrna Loy as his married lover, Katie O’Shea. Even though MGM provided an excellent supporting cast — Donald Crisp, Edna May Oliver, Edmund Gwenn, Billie Burke — Clark and Myrna were horribly miscast as the leads, and the script was boring, unbearable and frequently atrocious. Clark Gable spent most of the film with a gas-pain expression on his face, probably because nobody was worse at oratory than he was. And his death-bed scene was practically hilarious.
Clark Gable was obviously anxious to show that he had the versatility to do more than the roles in which he’d been typecast so far by MGM … but actually he proved that he could not. He had no command of the oratorical style of Charles Stewart Parnell and, in fact, he SUCKED at it. When Gable addresses Parliament on the subject of Ireland’s home rule he sounds weak, sad, helpless and apologetic ... with none of the power or personality he displayed as Blackie Norton just one year earlier in
San Francisco (1936). Clark Gable was a broad, outdoorsy, man’s-man actor with no gift for subtlety, nobility or sensitivity. He didn’t sound Irish, he didn’t sound educated and he didn’t sound articulate. He just stunk.
Therefore I’m awarding
Parnell our one-star rating for all of the reasons mentioned above.
★ Also, I’m very sorry that poor Myrna Loy got stuck in this film.
Regarding the saga of my 2018 dental adventures, a team from
Elite Mobile Dental visited me on Wednesday afternoon, took a couple of x-rays and discussed a treatment plan for extracting my last seven teeth — all lower, in the front and already mostly loose — in order to take an impression six weeks later and make me a lower denture. It’s quite an unusual event to have dental work done at home in your own family room. (Seven extractions will be even
more unusual.) I’ll let you know when the dentist will be back to pull my
teefs. Stay tuned for further developments but please feel free to resume your normal routine in the meantime.
Thank you for reading this!
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