KID WEST ( 2017 )

I started watching this "covid lockdown so that the DEMON-crats can steal the 2018 Elections and then clamp down on Free Speech and tell (UN)social media to censor non-woke bloggers which led to my blogsite losing readers in over 160 countries" movie at predawn today, Sunday, August 18th, 2024, in bed 🛏️ via my cellphone's 🤳 TUBI Streaming App.

Scene Commentaries:

This is a Kids' movie. So, I'll go easy on it And Do My Best Not To Criticize It Too Much.  😁

Lost & Found reward money. 🤑 

My Hyundai Accent still has its original cassette 

player. I don't want to replace it because since 

it will just temp some asshole to break into 

my car to steal it. Besides, I can always 

do my mantras or pop in a karaoke 

tape 📼 to sing along with it.

I  am  sounding  like a  stereotypical  Pinoy 

who likes to sing. Don't worry, though,

because  I  cannot  sing  very  well 

even if my life depends on it!

"My Daddy was a sheriff ..." 

Poor girl Harper ....  😟

Everytime that I hear or read in the news about a first responder who died in the line of duty, I feel very sad for the grieving families left behind. Especially if they had kids.  😢

"God is in the details, Missy."  😇

Just the 2nd day in the neighborhood and

she's already ruffling up some feathers.

Good news come to those who have no idea it is coming!  🤑

😂  😂  😂

I  was  just  thinking  along  the  same  line

a few hours ago. If I can get my cars

deputized, I can help weed out 

the asshole drivers in this

sanctuary/reparations

city with the use

of dashcams.

I don't know about their pickup truck,  🛻 whether or not it's fuel injected or carbureted. But if it takes two or more tries to get the engine running, the injectors or jets could be gummed up. That's where Gumout Fuel System Cleaner comes in!

Just put it in your vehicle's gas tank

2 to 4 times per year with a full

tank of gas ⛽ ( petrol ) and 

it should start to run 

okay without any 

more trouble 

after that.

And it should help with the

smog test/check, too!

Of course, there could be 

other reasons for the 

problem. But start

with this easy 

one first!

Juvenile Delinquent punk burglars!  😡

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😠

😏

😍

Well, I'll be ....  🤬

May a curse

be upon

him!

"Technically ...."   😉

"Hey, I'm home early." Uh, oh. 'Not part of the plan.  😐

"How much juice would you prefer?"  😜

"You know, no one ever knew what happened to old Walther Smith's descendants. Except, of course, his descendants."  😳

😄

"'Looks like this truck's got some life left in her." Way to go. You just jinxed it, optimistic little girl!  😒

Wait a minute now .... Why is the secret cavern well-lit even though nobody had the access key 🗝️ for it in over a century?  🧐

"I'm no rat. I'm just a pragmatist."  😀

Why does this last scene remind me 

of The Lone Ranger & Tonto. 🤔 

Here is a new one on me: They now

buy audio recordings instead of 

employing Foley Artists!

This is a good movie for little brats to see.👌❗👍

FYI: They've been trying to redo The Lone Ranger and Tonto characters to cater to newer, younger audiences. This movie is the newest (woke) version, it seems.  🤨

👉 https://weirdscifi.ratiosemper.com/loneranger/faq.html#:~:text=Later%20on%2C%20it's%20suspected%20that,covered%20more%20of%20his%20face.

Tidbits:

I bought some Bungee Cords at the Dollar Tree Store.

When I tried them at home, I learned that they don't stretch as far as I'd like them to. I'm just going to return them today and get something else on an even exchange.  😕

After shopping at the Dollar Tree Store, I walked around the block and visited the fiveBELoW store.

I browsed around the store just to cool off because I was perspiring 🥵. I shouldn't have jogged 🏃‍♂️ up the Incline Ramp to get to the store!

The big retail stores in this shopping centers have installed crash bars in front of their doors and storefront windows:

Because there are a lot of Smash & Grab Lootings in this sanctuary/reparations city! The crash barriers keep looters from driving their getaway cars into the stores. Welcome to the DEMON-cratic state of CLUSTERFUCKNIA❗🤬❗

Back in the Target 🎯 Shopping Center, I noticed that the planned renovations for a new Sushi restaurant was scrapped:

☹️  💸  ☹️

I went to do some grocery shopping next. I bought more cheeses at the Grocery Outlet Bargain Market. And a new kind of Keto Burrito Wrappers, 6 servings in a pack.

You only need one of these $4.49 kind of wrapper to meet your daily requirement for Fiber! 😮

I also bought a Yellow Dragon Fruit because I've never had it before.

I got back home and had a quick late lunch. Then, it was time to go for my evening walk. 🚶‍♂️ I saw the Sutter Solano Medical Center's RoboCop stopped in its path because its battery 🔋 power had drained. 

I thought that it was programmed to go back to its Charging Station about 150 yards/meters away whenever its power was almost drained. Apparently, I was wrong!  😕 I told a security guard about it. He said that there was nothing that he could do about it, that it will have to be stuck in place 'til the next day for "engineering" to fix it. I'll know tonight if it got fixed! 

Yup, still in place! I was already at 5.47 miles ( 8.80 kilometers ) & 2 hours & 2 minutes by the time that I took this 2nd shot. And I still had approximately 2.0 more miles ( 3.2 kilometers ) to walk before I got back home!

11.84 kilometers 

11.41 km

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The Sutter Solano Medical Center's RoboCop ...

I

is back at its Charging Station. I'll see if it's back in operation tonight after I have my late lunch.

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Just 2 intersections before I had to make a right turn to be in the Target 🎯 Shopping Center parking lot, a damn bird pooped all over my Hyundai Accent's driver's side door❗🤬❗ As soon as I parked, and before I went to the Dollar Tree Store for an even exchange on the Bungee Cords, I proceeded to spray the poops away and squeegeed the window clean❗

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Here's the reason why they need another ( deadlier ) PLANdemic virus for this Presidential Election year--- 😷 On:

 👇https://www.facebook.com/reel/468273439341129?mibextid=9drbnH

Whether or not it's real, the message is clear! This is a DEMON-cratic party, y'all:

👇 https://www.facebook.com/reel/497880183015775?mibextid=9drbnH

The best Trump Ad:

👉 https://rumble.com/v5b84tu-trump-just-released-the-most-epic-ad-of-the-entire-2024-cycle-lol.html

Medicare for ALL. Which includes JIHADIST and ILLEGAL INVADERS 

👉 https://fb.watch/u1X8H5eTTD/?mibextid=z4kJoQ

He's not lying ....

👉 https://youtube.com/shorts/XOXTDr8VCLU?si=mui9cM79qe5_2Dff

The real THREAT To the US Citizens:

👉 https://youtube.com/shorts/CGQMbcbkZIw?si=9IpEQIee-Ii3_wsx

The FASCISM of the DEMON-cratic party rears its Ugly Butthole Face:

👉 https://youtube.com/shorts/2RTf6XUAEDs?si=TNFnOfwNc4UQiSet

Pres. Trump's New Campaign Strategy for 2024

👉 https://youtu.be/4g0dKq7IwJA?si=ob3GbwdR_W8j_cwO

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Please don't try to start another 1776 and/or 1812 .... 🙄

👉 https://youtube.com/shorts/fMXFQ2L9i8s?si=fXdnscdztfUwdI5W

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If Santa says that Harley is bad, you know that he's right:

👉 https://www.facebook.com/reel/743078047884305?mibextid=9drbnH

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If you're just going to die in battle, you might as well go out in style!  🤪

👉 https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cybertruck-machine-gun-ukraine-chechnya-putin-elon-musk-2024-8

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What happens if you allow "moderate moslems" to settle in your island 🏝️ paradise? Philippines, are you listening ...?

👉 https://youtu.be/xVg7rBSfCyM?si=IGw6KzNPY6KPLcne

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I'm really so confused now! 🤦‍♂️ Is the taliban drumming up support for Pres. Trump? 🤷‍♂️ Things must be getting so bad now in afghanistan under the brandon/bj kammy ODDministration that even the taliban wants Pres. Trump back in office❗ 😜❗

👉 https://youtu.be/jWHKAqrT9bU?si=iEzU2CCi-7AcwfM0

❗🇺🇲M🦅A🦅G🦅A🇺🇸❗

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Here are today's 24-Hour Le Cine-Man's Race winners. Drumroll 🥁 please ....

Congratulations to Singapore for 

winning in 1st place!

🎉🎇🏆🎆🎊

🇸🇬🥇🇸🇬

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🍾

Congratulations to Israel for 

winning in 2nd place!

🇮🇱🥈🇮🇱

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And congratulations to the USA 

for winning in 3rd place!

🇺🇲🥉🇺🇸

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Thanks to the countries that participated in today's 24-Hour Race to the Finish! 🏁          🛣️          🏎️

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MISSIONARY MAN ( 2008 )

I watched this today, Tuesday, July 16th, 2024, via my TUBI Streaming App. 

Scene Commentaries:

This is a modern version of a Clint Eastwood Western movie from 1985, PALE RIDER:

This screenshot is from fb

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"What's your poison?"  If you drink too much alcohol, you don't get poisoned; you get intoxicated!  So, shouldn't the bartender have asked, "What's your toxin?"  😕

If you and your goons severely beat up a guy who owes you money, he might end up in the hospital and will be more worried about paying his hospital bill$ than he'll be about paying you back!  'Just stating the obvious, that's all ....  😏

The prayer ....

1 Samuel 2: 6-8

Don't tell me that they're just going to leave an M-16(?) Assault Rifle at the grave! 🪦 

How tall is Dolph Lundgren anyway? 😯 He almost hit the top of his head on the top doorframe as he stepped into the house! It must've been because of the camera angle.  I had a highschool teacher who was almost 7-feet/213 cm tall and would always bend slightly forward as he'd step into the classroom.

The Foley Artist used the wrong footstep sound FX for the bad guys walking to the used car garage!  🤦‍♂️

So, the bad guy's main goons will just stand there while he makes out with one of his sluts! Either he likes to put on a show OR they like to watch---Or both!  😜

A council meeting on a proposed casino 🎰 on tribal land. Is this a stereotype kind of thing ...?  🤷‍♂️

"We can't speak our language anymore ... because it was beaten out of us."  How does that old joke go ....  🤔  

Q: What do you call someone who only speaks one language?

A: An American!

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I don't know if that eagle 🦅 was making an eagle sound or a hawk sound. It's kinda hard to tell what Whollyweird sound FX they'll use for such shots from time to time!   😕

The number 4 is a Sacred Number. Hmm .... 🤔 I'll have to put this to the test.  🤨

Why didn't the bad guy driver run over the preacher's parked bike?  😕

"It's a real shame that in today's day and age, we couldn't find the evil that took him."  🙁

Dang, the bad guy better not be using the very same M-16 from the graveyard! Unless he's the cemetery's groundskeeper!  🤪

How many slices of lime do you need for a shot of tequila? 🥃 

The gazebo Bible class.

"Well, I'm going to ask you to beg the good Lord's forgiveness. But not before I take this knee and break that nose." 😖

"I don't like you, Reno." 😠

"That's the gun they shot you with." 😮

"I hope you don't mind if I live here when you're dead." 😐

"Jarfe."

"This is a white man's world." 

 😧

"I'm sorry. Did you say something?" 😨

"Not even God, Himself, can save the holy man of this piece-of-shit town from me." 👿

How did the girl get to town from her secret hideaway far from town? She would've had to swim across the lake first, then jogged! She must've been an Aquathlon Athlete. 😕

This movie is okay. Of course, I can't compare it to PALE RIDER, since I haven't seen it yet. 😐

Tidbits:

Here's something that I have observed:

➡️ ➡️ D.E.I. = I.E.D ⬅️ ⬅️

Such  an  explosive 

revelation🧨

🤯

👉 https://www.facebook.com/dan.bongino/videos/1194369228340362/?mibextid=CDWPTG

When Paul Blart, the Mall Cop, gets a 

sex change to become a 

DEI new hire!

🙄

It was probably an inside job ...

👉 https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/sniper-with-longest-confirmed-kill-claims-trump-near-assassination-was-an-inside-job-but-glenn-and-panel-have-questions

The 'Hood could do a better job of protecting Pres. Trump❗

👉 https://youtube.com/shorts/BsmqrJzkB3Q?si=P3jiNkydTCNr9QWU

The DEMON-crats will stop at nothing to keep Pres. Trump from winning this November❗

👉 https://youtube.com/shorts/PJLdGgUio70?si=TUWbfmk7KkjYpTwf

The DEMON-crat Party is the party of Death ❗☠️ ❗ 

👉 https://youtube.com/shorts/SDGaCqT1EP4?si=H0fpYoTW24eAMW3Y

I.E. Wars, open borders Invasion, Drugs, Bad Economy, Inflation, More Taxes, Abortion, Infanticide, Sex Change, Division, Racism, Crimes, Riots, Lootings, Smash & Grabs, Arsons, Election Interference ....

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brandon is thinking to himself, "Since Trump didn't concede to the 2020 election results, ain't no way I'm conceding to my handlers' demand for me to step down!"  🥴 

If you don't vote for me,

you ain't stupid!

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Here are today's 24-Hour Le Cine-Man's Race winners.  Drumroll 🥁 please ....

Congratulations to Hong Kong for 

winning in 1st place!

🎉🎆🏆🎇🎊

🇭🇰🥇🇭🇰

❗❗

🍾

Congratulations to the USA for 

winning in 2nd place!

🇺🇲🥈🇺🇸

❗❗

Congratulations to Israel for

winning in 3rd place!

🇮🇱🥉🇮🇱

❗❗

And congratulations to Germany 

for winning in 4th place!

🇩🇪🏅🇩🇪

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Thanks to the countries that participated in today's 24-Hour Race to the Finish! 🏁   🛣️   🏎️

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TEDDY'S CHRISTMAS

 l went to see this movie, yesterday, Tuesday, December 5th, 2023, an All Day Bargain Tuesday, at the Regal Edwards Fairfield & I-Max, in Fairfield, CA. The price of admission was $5.00. I also bought a Tub of Buttered Popcorn for $5.05.

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A little girl spots a magical teddy 🧸 bear at the local Christmas Market's Spin The Wheel carnival booth. And she wants it all to herself! But the bear 🐻 has Worldly Plan$ that, unfortunately, the little girl can't provide him with.  ☹️

G, 1h & 20m

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Auditorium 11, C-7

I believe that I was the only one

in this auditorium for this 

particular show. The 5

reserved seats at the

back are all just

dummy seats.

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They're so cute and adorable--even as they go through their innocent "Terrible Twos" phase. But when the Hormones finally start to kick-in, watch out because they turn into this Guy down below:

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What were the Author, Scriptwriter, Director and Producer thinking of when they came up with this kid's doll's name especially after The Other Teddy made quite an impression on the Big Screen ❓🤷‍♂️❗🤦‍♂️❓🤷‍♂️❗🤦‍♂️❓🤷‍♂️❗

Why did they take the Christmas 🎄 Tree into the house pointed tip in first, instead of going in with the base first?

You should only use a Cooking Spoon to taste the food that you're cooking IF You Are Only Making It For Yourself! Otherwise, put a bit of it on a saucer plate and taste it from there as a sign of consideration and respect for others. I can be a slob, admittedly, But Not When I Am Cooking For Others!

Why were little kids running around unsupervised? With all of the dangers to little kids these days, they should be under constant watch when they're out in public. Things might be different in Norway where the film shoot was made. But, still, it's better to be safe than sorry when it comes to one's own children.

I know that it's only for laughs, but the candy store owner who's shown with his hand in a jar--TWICE--doesn't make sense at all. It likens him to an Indian  monkey 🐒 that does the same thing ( Wait for the "virtue signaling" loonies whose sole purpose in life is to be OFFENDED for others' sake to make a hissy [ hershe? ] fit about it 😏 )❗ And, more importantly, it's a Health Code Violation!

When Teddy walked across the ceiling on a plank, why did the plank make a creaky noise?  🤷‍♂️!🤦‍♂️ The Foley Artist went overboard with the Sound FX on this one!  👎

It is a good movie to take your brats to go see. But if they want one for Christmas, just be sure to give them the RIGHT KIND OF STUFFED BEAR DOLL because it's either one or the other ❗

🎄🧸🎄🧸🎄🧸🎄🧸🎄🧸🎄🧸🎄🧸🎄🧸

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MEN IN BLACK III in 3-D, PG-13 ( 1 hr & 44 min )

where:  CENTURY 14 VALLEJO in Vallejo, CA
when:  Friday, May 25th, 2012
show:  11:30 a.m. ( Extra Dollar Off First Show Matinee )
costs:  $10.00 Ticket + $1.53 bulk Chocolate Candy + $4.50 20.0 oz VitaminWater Power-C + $9.73 lunch @ Golden City Buffet here in Vallejo ( + $1.52 Tip ) = $27.28
auditorium:  7
seat:  4th row, 8ht column


synopsis/overview:  Agent J ( Will Smith ) travels back to 1969 to save the life of his partner, Agent K ( Tommy Lee Jones ), and to keep Boris ( Jemaine Clement ), an alien threat, from changing the course of history.


noteworthy scenes:  1.) Non-conjugal visit; 2.) "You complete me"; 3.) Moon; 4.) Cellphone; 5.) Eulogy; 6.) The device; 7.) The Chinese restaurant; 8.) "You don't know it K, but you're already dead"; 9.) "Don't lie to your kids"; 10.) "Should've killed him"; 11.) "Boglodite assassin"; 12.) "Secrets of the Universe"; 13.) 5K; 14.) "Your partner"; 15.) "He smiles like this"; 16.) "Damn it, it's not the tick"; 17.) "Temporal fracture"; 18.) Proximity warning; 19.) Always Going Out Of Business; 20.) "That's a big blip"; 21.) "No, you're gonna leave me hanging"; 22.) Empire State Building; 23.) "Wasn't the best time for your people"; 24.) Time jump; 25.) Elevator; 26.) Cops; 27.) Amusement park; 28.) "O ... K"; 29.) Eye Exam; 30.) Clue; 31.) "You have some city miles on you"; 32.) Bowling alley; 33.) The Factory; 34.) "Fifth Dimensional Being"; 35.) Diner; 36.) The game; 37.) The gift; 38.) "Texas Two-Step"; 39.) Rolaids; 40.) "Stop staring at it"; 41.) Arc-Net; 42.) Moon launch; 43.) "That's for lying to me. That's for telling the truth"; 44.) "But where there is death, there will always be death"; 45.) Jet-packs; 46.) "The truth"; 47.) MPs; 48.) "I told the truth last time"; 49.) Launch pad; 50.) "That's not possible"; 51.) "You call this in, they'll scrub the launch"; 52.) "Go ahead, arrest me"; 53.) Daddy; 54.) "How the hell do I know what I don't know"; and 55.) "This is my new favorite moment in human history."

favorite scene:  I liked the Cape Canaveral scene with the little boy in it. It was such a poignant scene.

audience reaction:  The audience liked it. But it didn't get a "Hands Clapper" ending.

recommendation:  I liked it, too. Go see it if you're an MIB fan.

spoiler alert!  That woman traveled for at least three days just to deliver the cake to its destination--'doesn't make sense at all! That was a very, very, very expensive trip just to deliver the cake--again, 'doesn't make sense at all--highly suspicious, if anything! That "spider" thing only tapped on the chains; and the chains broke ...? And in a much later scene, the "spider" thing had a hard time taking the box away from Griffin's ( Michael Stuhlbarg ) neck. Come on! If she feared for her life, why did the mini-skirted woman just use her left hand to hold onto Boris's arm? I'd have grabbed onto it with both hands and I'd have wrapped my legs around his head to, if I were her, especially since he had quite a skillful, long tongue! Ha, ha, ha. If the vacuum was strong enough to suck the people out of that building, then it was strong enough to suck the air out of the people's lungs; in other words, they would not have been able to scream or talk because there would be no more air passing through their vocal chords for vocal sounds to be generated. Boris landed on the bright side of the Moon; so, depending on where the Moon was, relative to its location from the Sun, Boris would have been burned to death because the bright side of the Moon can get hotter than the hottest place on Earth ( hotter than boiling water temperature ) and the moon doesn't have a thick atmosphere like our planet has to shield most of the Sun's heat away from its own surface. An iron skillet doesn't make that kind of a sound---Fire the Foley Artist! This movie gives new meaning to, "Chinese Alien"! Okay, when Agent J took a group shot of those people with his memory-erasing device, the people in the crowd who were standing at the rear only got a partial shot of the flash and some probably never even got flashed in the eyes! If you're standing at, or near, the top of the Empire State Building, a car horn's sound from the traffic down below WILL NOT SOUND THAT LOUD. Boris's bike was obviously of alien manufacture; how'd he get a hold of it? If 5th Dimensional Beings can see all future possibilities, why couldn't their own race save their planet from being totally annihilated, huh? A prototype for a unicycle motorbike was already built around 15 years, or so, ago. The jet-packs had rockets that made them go up vertically--but they didn't have rockets that could make them travel horizontally. So, how were the three of them able to travel horizontally to their destination?

fyi:  Did you notice the food truck where Agent K got his pocket bread sandwich at? The meat tower to its left made it suspiciously look like a Shawarma food truck--think back to what Iron Man said near the end of the movie in MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS. More than likely, it was a Shawarma food truck, though. And that sandwich was a Shawarma sandwich. I wonder if they serve Pork Shawarma. Ha, ha, ha.

Andy Warhol ( 1928 - 1987 ) achieved some artistic notoriety when his picture of an overly-endowed male genitalia was put on billboards in the Los Angeles area. It probably caused some traffic accidents, too! ( 'Not to mention, a lot of "Penis Envy". )

word of advice:  Look out for your partner.

tidbits: My first order of business for the day was to go to the Goin' Postal shop at the Lucky's Supermarket Shopping Center on the corner of Tuolumne and Redwood streets, here in Vallejo, CA,  to ask about their mail box rental rates. Because Mike, the proprietor of the Postal Annex shop at the Gateway Plaza Shopping Center on Admiral Callaghan Lane, also here in Vallejo, is going out of business on June 15th as he will be retiring; and all eight prospective buyers of his business didn't qualify for a business loan. Goin' Postal is much closer to home ( just a few blocks away ). So, I'll open an account with them on the 1st of June.

By the way, to those of you out there who are not familiar with it, "Goin' postal" is also an American slang for a vengeful killing spree. It got its origin some years ago when, for some unexplained reason, U.S. postal clerks who were fired from their jobs, or had quarrels with their fellow co-workers, got guns and shot their bosses and co-workers to death. The phrase stuck and is now used to describe a killing spree at any workplace.

As an aside, I have a co-worker who was fired from his previous job because he jokingly used the phrase, "Goin' postal." Somebody who heard him say it reported him to Management, and management called-in the Human Resources Representative. And, next thing you know, he was fired!

I can't wait to open an account with Goin' Postal so that I can excitedly tell some co-workers of mine about it within earshot of Management. And I'll do so after having a specially stressful time of it at work--my co-workers can attest to the fact that I stress-out a whole lot at work!  It will probably go something like this: Hey! tell the manager that I'm "Goin' Postal"; and I don't f-cking care---Cue-in the Diabolical laughter: Bwa, ha, ha, ha, ha. We'll see what happens next ....

After the movie, I went to the Chase Bank branch at the Target Shopping Center here in Vallejo to make a deposit in my checking account.

I took this picture because there was a woman in my side mirror bending down to get something in the back of her mini van. Too bad she wasn't wearing a short skirt. Ha, ha, ha.

Then, I headed-on to the Golden City Chinese Buffet on the corner of Sonoma Boulevard and Mini Drive, here in Vallejo, to have lunch. One of the waiters here is very creative about his "do-it-yourself" haircuts. One time, he had a "Salad Bowl" haircut. Today, he has a "Shaved Temples" haircut. Maybe, he's trying to be "trendy" about it. So, if you see a waiter at a Chinese buffet sporting a weird or hilarious haircut, you know where it all began!

And, another thing about this Chinese buffet: Why do they have to play Madonna songs?!?!?! I, for one, CANNOT STAND TO LISTEN TO MADONNA'S VOICE!!!! It's more than bad enough that I have to be forced to listen to it at work. And I turn my car radio off as soon as a Madonna song starts to play. I'd much rather listen to a Chinese sex-kitten songstress caterwauling along to some tunes than listen to Madonna sing! Gad, is there no place here on Earth where they don't play Madonna songs at all...?

I swear, if they don't stop playing Madonna songs at Chinese buffets, the term "Goin' postal" will have to be rephrased 'cause I'll be "Goin' buffet" on them! And it won't look good because it will get messy as heck! Ha, ha, ha.

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'Sorry I took so long in posting this. I recently "friended" a first cousin of mine on FaceBook. The last time that we saw each other was in 1966. ( Yup! that long ago. ) We corresponded with each other on FaceBook and went crazy talking about Cuban Cigars! And we did it in our native language, Cebuano, which I haven't used on a regular basis since 1983. I had to use a Cebuano/English dictionary to reacquaint myself with the language, to check on my spelling and word use, and to figure out what the heck he was talking about. And it would take me up to 20 minutes just to write a single, solitary sentence with the aid of the dictionary! So, most of my free time ( i.e. blog time ) was used-up writing back and forth with my cousin.

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