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Documentaries have long been a favorite form of entertainment for me, and I’d like to strongly recommend one to you that I just watched last night. It is about Val Kilmer, and any of you who have Amazon Prime already have free access to it.
Most of us remember Val from the dozens of movies he made in the 1980s and 1990s. He was famous for his mercurial temper as well as his ridiculous good looks:
There has been some interest bubbling on Slope about NFTs, so I’m educating myself more deeply. I have stumbled upon one of the hot sites around, and again, I must conclude that either (a) I have become an utterly out-of-step fuddy-duddy or (b) the world has gone batshit insane. Allow me to present to you an image which sold recently for nearly $8 million. I would mention as an aside that is what I got for my company, Prophet, back in 2005.
You may find this surprising, but Rambo has always been one of my favorite characters. Sly Stallone co-write Rambo 3, and if the U.S. government had simply watched this clip from the 1998 movie, they could have saved us all way over $2 TRILLION DOLLARS. Just watch:
Funny how one’s allies and heroes change, given who is on the other side, isn’t it?
I stumbled upon this post from years ago, and I just had to offer it up again, particularly since so many new people are herIe. So, in the spirit of the Sunday morning comics…….
As a little kid, one of my simple pleasures was Highlights magazine. Most of you probably remember this, since it was a staple at most pediatric and dental offices. The part I liked the most, of course, was Goofus and Gallant. I was a really good kid, but I guess I had a prurient curiosity about what a nasty, selfish, and rude kid like Goofus would be up to. Whether he is demanding to be fed….….
