Because there's no such thing as too much cheese. Unrolling the braciole of consciousness; shaping the meatball of life. Because everything is funny; you just need to view it from the proper angle. Good for cats. Made in Poland. Because everything is like a hat. You know how those gorillas can be... Very unforgiving.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Oscar, Oscar, Oscar

Here's another way I know I'm getting old. I recently watched the movie The Odd Couple. The original, with Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau. Great film -- a classic. I'd seen it before and used to be an addicted watcher of the sit-com reruns back in the late 70s (channel 11, for a time, was wall-to-wall Felix and Oscar).

Anyway, Netflix has a kind-a lame selection so at this point we're squeezing its database for any missed gems. We're quickly running out. So I sat that night and watched, even though I had seen this movie before, a long time ago.

Here's what was new: when I used to watch the sit-com, and when I first saw the original movie, Oscar's bristling at Felix's eccentricity made perfect sense to me. This time, I found myself very sympathetic to the Felix character. Why was Oscar being such a sadist?

Eh, I'm getting old. Or maybe I just can't stand to see spaghetti thrown against the wall like that. Linguini. Whatever.