I Spent the night at Katey's....

 

She and her pals were going out for a birthday celebration and I was going to keep Apollo and Meatball company.  As per usual I indulged myself in bad pizza and programing that my wife would hate.  I learned from my last visit to not sleep on the couch in that the surface was too soft and my back would pay the price.  First off was a selection of episodes of Shameless, the Frank Gallagher opus about a complete screwup of a father and his collection of resourceful kids and their petty crimes and other mishaps and twisted relationships.  The eldest daughter holds up the group while Frank stays perpetually drunk. 

I try to learn about entertainers completely outside of my usual spectrum.  Takashi 69 is one of those.  He is an expletive spouting, rainbow haired Puerto Rican kid from Bushwick that Showtime decided to do a documentary about called Super villain . Apparently he is the newest thing and I watched a part of it completely baffled by the language and the context presented.  He seemed ridiculous to me screaming chaos,  but the fans loved it.

The documentary about Jeffrey Epstein shows him to be the absolute monster that he was as told by his many victims.  All of his cohorts, including Prince Andrew and Bill Clinton and others should be held culpable.  I have been willing to give the former president a pass on his past antics,  but his association with this narcissistic fuck is too much to forgive.  Epstein did indeed end his own life simply because he could no longer control the narrative.  

On a more inspirational note, One Night in Miami is the best film I've seen in a long time.  The portrayals of these African American icons was poignant and revealing. Leslie Odom sounded so much like Sam Cooke, it was eerie and the actor portraying then Cassius Clay had the tone, timbre and vocal affectations of the boxer down perfectly.  As an old white guy still grappling with real history of America, warts and all, suggest you see this one on Amazon.  The interplay between all the characters with Malcom X approached the truth that men of color have dealt with for many years.  

That's all the reviews for now.  We had the gang over for pizza, cake and mushroom lemon pasta yesterday afternoon.  Shannon loved it and Andrew and I watched the reboot of Good Eats with Alton Brown, the cooking scientist.  The birthday girl had a good time and enjoyed the food selections.  Another birthday past.  All is pretty good.

all for now

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