Tofurky? No Thank You.
What's everybody having for T-giving? The Nut House menu will be posted Wednesday, featuring my dream feast.

Nighty-night.

Chinquapin

Nov. 12 Double Feature
The Corona del Mar Cable Car will be the special for this Friday's Chiller Double Feature(see Sir Knight Rancelot's recipe under the previous post's comments).

Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978)

The Conversation(1974)

Looks like they only needed to get the pods to a couple of swing states.

Chinquapin
(Hot Toddies tonight, the password is...vertigo[not the song])

The Return of MOVIE NIGHT
Starting tomorrow, Friday nights will be movie nights at The Nut House. There was too much going on last week to get up and running for Halloween, so "Chiller Theater" Friday night double features will be a regular event.

This week, my double feature picks are:

The Handmaid's Tale
They Live

Suggestions for following movie nights are welcome, but no mindless slasher films, please. Meaningful slasher films are welcome.

Got to go eat. My appetite's's coming back.

Chinquapin

Exit Polls My ASS!
Here's a question:

If there were a record number of Absentee Ballots used this year, and in some cases(FLA), Absentee Ballots accounted for 1/5 of all votes, how can anyone(news organization) report statistics based on exit polls, and report then as fact?

HOW THE HELL DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT GOES ON IN THE BOOTH!?? Who are these BLABBY people who spill their guts to anyone who asks,"Who'd you vote for? Are you married?" What is this, the 4th grade?

Now, if you follow me and see a Kerry/Edwards sticker on my car, you can make an assumption. And if you see a ring on my finger, you can make an assumption. But that's not an exit poll. What ever happened to saying,"That's none of your business."?

OK, I've asked Ken if he's got any property to sub-let. Maybe JC has an inside track. Rancelot, any ideas? I really didn't want to ever move anyplace colder than where I grew up... DAMN!

I have no facility for language, so my options are limited...DAMN!!!

Mr.Man met somebody from the CBC on his last job, maybe he could get a job as a stringer. Oh, by the way, Mr.Man's vote will not be counted, and I'm pissed. If a state isn't going to count "Provisional Ballots", then they shouldn't issue them.
DAMN!
DAMN!
DAMN!

Damn my ancestors for stopping south of The Great Lakes(not really ancestors- you did your best).

All Dems(unless you were swayed by that Gay Marriage B.S.), Progressives, Greens, Libertarians(sp?),and Repubs who voted for Kerry, put your keys in the jar and belly-up to the bar. We'll cry tonight, let the others cry when they see the light.(God, who knew I rhymed when I got pissed-off.)

Chinquapin
Password at the front door tonight. With you hand on the Bible "I voted for Kerry."

Smile, Though Your Heart Is Breaking...
At least I don't have any kids I have to explain this to.

Off to work. I guess my house downpayment savings will become my emergency heathcare savings.

Chinquapin

5 Min. in CA, 2 Hrs. in Swing State
My mom waited 2 hours to vote today. If you're in a cold & drizzly state, drop off an umbrella or rain poncho at your local polling place.

Catch yall later.

Chinquapin

Tuesday Night- Champagne & Quaaludes Party
I heard people have been planning these parties for about a month. Of course The Nut House doesn't participate in the buying or selling of prescription drugs, but what goes on the The Back Room, stays in The Back Room.

Now it may take a few days beyond Nov. 2 to figure out who'll be needing the "Tranqs", so I'll have plenty of Imported Champagne for the Dems, and a lovely Domestic Sparkling for the Repubs. Greens, Libers, and others are welcome to start with whichever libation they wish.

Maybe with an extra hour of sleep this weekend, I'll be energized for Halloween. I think I'll wear a Trick-Or-Treat shirt to the polls this year.

Good-night from the Big Blue state.

Chinquapin
(the password[with accent] is... Spooky-scary)

Congratulations Bean-towners!!!
10 years ago, there was NO World Series(strike).

4 years ago, NYC was split between the Yankees & the Mets.

Here's hoping that this clear, quick victory is a sign of things to come.

Chinquapin

RedSox Sweep During Lunar Eclipse-1st sign of the Apocalypse?
Mood:  don't ask
Is this what GWB is hearing in his left ear from God?

Catch y'all'll after the game.

Chinquapin

It's raining like a Raymond Chandler novel
I rented The Big Sleep on DVD over the weekend- my 1st full weekend in a few weeks. About 15 minutes in, I heard rain outside my window. Rain is a very unexpected sound in mid-October in southern California.

I love The Big Sleep, I've seen it many times and I wanted to see the "original" cut. I had a bad disc, and the 1945/46 comparison section had been marred on both sides of the disc(PISS!). Anyway, I always thought it was strange that it rained, and rained hard early in the story. I'd never been west of the Mississippi until '78, and never in SoCal except to drive through Needles, CA. Who knew about El Ninos if you didn't live out here?

I think I'll read some Chandler(love those Devil Winds)this month. I've read the Hammett novels a few times, they're great, but not LA based. I wish somebody would shoot a faithful version of Red Harvest.

And so, the following is dedicated to MtAnnie, while we wait to hear from the Bravo network.

A "statement" from Raymond Chandler...
On attending the Academy Awards for the first (and last) time, c. 1941: "If you can get past those awful idiot faces on the bleachers outside the theater without a sense of the collapse of human intelligence; and if you can go out into the night and see half the police force of Los Angeles gathered to protect the golden ones from the mob in the free seats, but not from the awful moaning sound they give out, like destiny whistling through a hollow shell; if you can do these things and still feel the next morning that the picture business is worth the attention of one single, intelligent, artistic mind, then in the picture business you certainly belong because this sort of vulgarity, the very vulgarity from which the Oscars are made, is the inevitable price that Hollywood exacts from each of its serfs."

Ouch.

Tonight's specials(check out The Big Sleep):
Brandy... in a glass
Rye... in a paper cup
Bourbon... water back(watched Out Of Sight too.)

Chinquapin
(tonight's password is... trenchcoat)

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I'm thinking about painting this Chandler jem along the hallway to the patio/pier.

"I'm an occational drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard." --"The King in Yellow"

Wonder where I can get ahold of the Powers Boothe "Philip Marlowe" series? What a great voice over voice. Come-on HBO, or ITC, or who ever.

Chinquapin