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Then, at two o’clock P.M., another bulletin, this one official: The President was dead… My head was flooded with images of the President the last time I saw him, just seven days earlier, in the Carlyle. He had hugged me and said he’d call me when he got back from Texas… What sent me over the edge was the image of Dave Powers with his hand on the casket, standing in front of it as if he were guarding the President, then lifting it with other aides into the waiting Navy ambulance… My tears turned into violent, racking sobs…

– Intimate JFK friend Mimi Beardsley

I’ll get a jump on next year’s 40th(!) anniversary of one of my two favorite comedy movies, This is Spinal Tap.

My other favorite laugh-filled movie is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which is scheduled for limited release in theaters only on December 3. Wait, no. It will be shown again on December 6. But that will be the absolute last time. Never again to be repeated, not ever!

SNL has this funny bit, picking up on the factoid that many men supposedly think about Ancient Rome several times each day. Something I don’t want to think about it how many times MAGA men think about Nazi Germany every day!

Speaking for myself, I never give a single thought to Ancient Rome…

… and there is no indication whatsoever of my having even a subconscious interest in Ancient Rome.

It’s gonna be called the United States of America.

If my parents had made a go of their florist/greenhouse business in Wisconsin, I might know as much about plants as anything else. As it turned out, I know next to nothing. The two impatiens I had hanging on the front porch all summer did so well I decided to see if they can survive the winter, repotted on the all-season porch.

If the porch works for the impatiens, maybe later I could “pot” some other plants. 😉

Yes, I’m kidding!

Back in June I noted that the Movies! TV Network was no longer available in Boston. I don’t know when it returned, but Movies! is now on over-the-air channel 38-5.

https://moviestvnetwork.com/schedule/

Right now it’s showing an excellent movie I featured here a year ago, The Narrow Margin.

The Narrow Margins