Friday, October 24, 2025
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Kutsher's pinball room, Thompson, New York
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Cheers Has Chili
Season 9, episode 21. Woody makes good chili and starts serving it in the back room, which is now Rebecca's tea room.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0539711/
- Woody Boyd: Mom finally sent out Grandma Meg's pressure cooker, so last night I whipped up a batch of chili.
- Norm Peterson: Oh!
- Woody Boyd: Do you want to try some?
- Carla Tortelli-LeBec, Dr. Lilith Sternin-Crane, Cliff Clavin, Norm Peterson, Dr. Frasier Crane, Pete: Oh yeah. Sure.
- Woody Boyd: From an old family recipe.
- Pete: Your Grandma's?
- Woody Boyd: Nah, this old family that lived down the road.
Monday, October 20, 2025
Chicken and Peppers 10/20
Chicken Pepperoni. Three big split breasts after being deboned and chopped up so the peppers, tomatoes, onions, and red wine can seep in over time. I serve this over rice, but also good in salads and sandwiches, b/c the chicken has such good flavor, and makes a lot.
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Friday, October 17, 2025
Dirty Ho (1979)
Heroes of the East (1978)
Directed by Lau Kar-leung. Found on Tubi. Gordon Liu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_of_the_East
https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=8878
https://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/classic/heroeseast.shtml
The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984)
Directed by Lau Kar-leung. Found on Tubi. Gordon Liu, Kara Hui, Alexander Fu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eight_Diagram_Pole_Fighter
https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/the-8-diagram-pole-fighter-blu-ray-review/
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Monday, October 13, 2025
A Quiet Flame - Philip Kerr
Bernie Gunther trade paperback I got off Amazon recently. This one he is in Argentina.
The Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie
Miss Marple I found in my boxes of vintage paperbacks. The first Miss Marple novel from 1930 and the first for me. I read two Poirot paperbacks before this.
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Friday, October 10, 2025
Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Directed by Brian G. Hutton. Free with ads on Youtube. Clint Eastwood, Richard Burton. I also have the book by Alistair MacLean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Eagles_Dare
Hal Needham: Greatest Stuntman Alive
From Hooper with Burt Reynolds. Skip to 14:07. Hal Needham saves the life of a burning stunt man on the set of Hooper. "When I say get him out, I mean get him out!"
October and Autumn
October and Autumn Gifs found in an old thread. Supposed to get down to 59 finally tonight.
https://observationdeck2.blogspot.com/2023/09/night-flight_29.html
Hooper (1978)
Directed by Hal Needham. Found on Tubi. Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jan-Michael Vincent, Brian Keith, James Best, Terry Bradshaw. I saw this in the theater.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooper_(film)
https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/78351/hooper#articles-reviews?articleId=1150486
https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=7488
Private Benjamin (1980)
Directed by Howard Zieff. Found on Tubi. Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Hal Williams, Mary Kay Place, P.J. Soles, Robert Webber, Barbara Barrie, Albert Brooks, Craig T. Nelson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Benjamin_(1980_film)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/private-benjamin-1980
https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/87193/private-benjamin#articles-reviews?articleId=33799
https://every70smovie.blogspot.com/2017/04/1980-week-private-benjamin.html
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Keeler's Hotel, Albany, N.Y.
- Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant
- Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
- c1908.
- https://www.loc.gov/item/2016813899/
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Pumpkin Pie and Pumpkins
Gifs found in the comments on an old October post.
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/mcdonalds-halloween-1979.html
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Monday, October 6, 2025
Chili Tacos
A favorite of mine from my drinking days. The chili I make is very chunky, with three kinds of meat, and three kinds of beans, so it lends itself to chili tacos. Add a little cheese to each toasted shell, fill with chili, and eat over the sink b/c it is very messy.
https://thegoldenhornblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/chili-2025.html
Saturday, October 4, 2025
More Cornbread
My grandmother's recipe. I defrosted white bean soup. With buttermilk, bacon grease, and a hot cast iron skillet.
Granny’s CornbreadFor this recipe you’ll need an 8-inch cast iron skillet and some bacon grease. I keep a little jar of it in the fridge just for making cornbread. Oil will do in a pinch but it won’t have as much flavor.Preheat oven to 450 degrees. The trick is to stick the cast iron pan in the oven for a few minutes to let it get hot and then add about a tablespoon of bacon grease and get that hot so when you pour the batter in you get a sizzle. That is what makes a nice crust.Dry ingredients:1 cup yellow corn meal1/2 cup flour1 teaspoon baking powder (heaping)1 teaspoon salt1/4 teaspoon baking sodaWet ingredients:2 cups buttermilk (approx.)1 eggMix the dry ingredients together and mix the egg and buttermilk together and then combine. You don’t want to stir it too much, just make sure everything is mixed together well; the batter should be fairly thin, almost like a pancake batter.Pour into blazing hot cast iron skillet and bake at 450 for 23-25 minutes until cooked through and browned on top.
Friday, October 3, 2025
Easy Money (1983)
Directed by James Signorelli. Found on Tubi. Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Tom Noonan, Taylor Negron, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeff Altman, Candice Azzara.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Money_(1983_film)
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/easy-money-1983
Scavenger Hunt (1979)
Directed by Michael Schultz. Found on Tubi. All-Star cast.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scavenger_Hunt
https://thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=3807
October Century
- Design for magazine cover showing a sailboat.
- Lawrence, H. M., artist
- [New York : 1896]
- https://www.loc.gov/item/93500957/
































