Fr 6/8/18

Fr 6/8/18

Up 715am; hot and hazy already, and a chance for storms later this afternoon or tonight. Might try to mow the lawn if it really looks like we'll get the rain.

Wrote up A CERTAIN JUSTICE for the blog.

Watched Netflix disc, 'AMERICAN MADE'. Tom Cruise plays the 'good ol' boy' who became a drug and gun smuggler for the 'U. S. of A.' during the Contra Scandal; entertainingly flashy, worth a look.

11am- reading 'M31'.
Bike to drop the disc and maybe get some white Tee's; workout LA Fitness? Mow the lawn? 
115pm on the bike to Wabash PO to drop the disc, and on the way out I stopped at the Dollar Store up the hill, but no tee's.
On to Walmart and got six white tee's in a bag for twelve bucks; Mighty fine. Took the bike path south through the '7 Pines' apartments, and west on Westchester Blvd. Back Lindbergh Blvd to bike path and Drawbridge Rd. 
At LA Fitness just after 2pm, but spoke with the retired coach/ gym teacher about the new equipment at Planet Fitness (15"). 45" Walk. 3.7/0 (PATRICK MELROSE; first episode and I'm gonna really love this! Benedict Cumberbatch as an English Raoul Duke of the 80's). 45" Cross (PATRICK MELROSE). 45" Recumbent Bike (M31/ 'Rad Gumbo'). 30" Walk. 3.6/0.(RAY DONOVAN). 30" Cross (DONOVAN).
Home to soak, the first Buffalo Springfield album/ M31- Stephen Wright, and three beers. 

 Watched, 'PEOPLE WHO ARE GOOD, GO TO HELL- PEOPLE WHO ARE SAVED, GO TO HEAVEN, (Amazon Prime). Superstition didn't die in the Middle Ages-  it's alive and well in Louisiana, and surprisingly pervasive all over the US. You wreck the public schools, and this is what happens. The film is sensitive to the beliefs and feelings of the characters that are profiled, but Give Me A Break; overbearing mother demanding that her children see it her way, her eighteen year old son who 'sings for the Lord', yet refuses to listen to anything other than Christian Music, her daughter who is married to a Marine who doesn't share The Faith and spends most of his time in the military. His wife spends her life wishing (praying) that he will come to see it her way, and finally, the guy who dresses up like Jesus and pulls a life-sized cross along the byways of the Mississippi river, 'lovingly' hectoring and browbeating people he meets on his journey.  The biggest flaw in these people is that the are completely unable to live in a world of divergent beliefs;  'My way or the highway, and if you don't believe in what I say, I'll just drag my 'Jesus Cross', and go back and visit with people that see it my way'.

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