Incidentally, right before Fatso I watched Three Men on a Horse (1936) starring a whole bunch of my favorite 1930s character actors … Edgar Kennedy, Sam Levene, Allen Jenkins, Teddy Hart, Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Paul Harvey, Harry Davenport, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson and adorable Joan Blondell.
Three Men on a Horse is a cute, fast-paced comedy about Irwin, a whiny, middle-class henpecked husband (McHugh), who handicaps horses just for fun … and every horse he picks is a winner! Eventually a trio of small-time gamblers (Jenkins, Levene and Hart) realizes Irwin’s incredible talent, so they lock him up in a hotel room and force him to “do his magic” in exchange for 10% of the winnings. While everybody gets rich, Irwin just wants to go home and hang onto his job writing sentimental verses for greeting cards. I love this movie!
In case you’re interested, “Kicker” is considered a super font, which means it includes all kinds of special Opentype features, alternate characters, extra fractions and multiple styles for every weight. I especially like the soft-rounded numerals (see top row below), an all-caps alphabet with automatic upperscores and underscores, and the unique styles for every weight, especially upright and slanted. (The italic style is the same as slanted, except it’s tilted an additional four points.)
I’m having some health challenges tonight and I thought I’d like to share them with you. First, around dinnertime Sam gave me a wonderful and thoroughly delightful bath due to me peeing all over myself yesterday by accident. This was followed two hours later by a horribly difficult bedpan experience, and Sam totally saved my life with regard to the latter. (Dear Lord, I don’t know what I’d do without him.) Right now, at 10 p.m., I’m completely pooped out — literally! — and seriously exhausted. All I want to do is drink some sugar-free fruit punch and dose off.
In addition … I’m having a really lousy time with neuropathy pain — electrical “shocks” that feel like I’m being tased — on the bottoms of both feet, and in my hands and wrists, as well as severe tremors in my hands, fingers, arms and legs. It’s a real challenge to type like this!
To unwind post-bedpan Sam and I decided to watch Seabiscuit (2003) starring Jeff Bridges, Tobey Maguire, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Cooper and William H. Macy, which is one of those amazing feel-good movies that makes you whoop and cheer for ordinary, everyday slobs like us who can overcome adversity and win all the marbles. Woo-hoo! GO SEABISCUIT!
So … let’s take a look at the upcoming week here at Howdygram headquarters, okay? First of all, later this morning — it’s Sunday now — Sam has a 9 a.m. appointment at Pep Boys to have our car battery replaced. When he gets home we’ll eat things, enjoy a few favorite movies, of which one of them is bound to be Panic in the Streets (1950) starring Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas, because we both love watching a pair of resourceful civil servants try to figure out who killed Poldi, the miserable dude who unwittingly set off an epidemic of pneumonic plague in New Orleans. FANTASTIC MOVIE!
And finally, although I don’t know where any of y’all live, Sam and I hope you’ll have a white Christmas! It won’t be cold enough for snow here in the Dallas metro area, and actually the high temperature on Christmas will be about 70°. For your possible interest, here’s our forecast for the upcoming week.
Also, next week I’ve got my hospice C.N.A. every day around 9:30 a.m. for a lovely bath and hygiene session, a visit from my hospice R.N. towards the end of the week, and our maid will be here on Friday morning at 10 a.m. Whew.
And now it’s time to call it quits for a while. I need food (Sam is warming up a can of Campbell’s French onion soup for me) and a movie. I’m so excited I almost can’t stand it. Thank you for reading this, and let’s all remember the Alamo together!
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