Alas Tube Man, I Knew Him Well

the only request i have made is that there be an inflatable arm flailing tube man at my wake. So everybody is trying to be serious and solemn and there is this fan going "brrrrrrrrrrrr" and this day glow tube man flopping everywhere and everybody is just staring at it and shouting "i'm sorry for your loss!" "What?" "I said, i'm sorry for your loss!" meanwhile his head got caught on a flower arrangement and now tube man is twerking right in the face of my daughter-in-law who has only been part of the family for a short time and has no idea what is going on.

Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)

So working my way through the Daryl Hannah filmography and i have to say it was not as bad as i though it was going to be. Not sure what i was expecting. It is a famous and loved book series after all. Perhaps the bone through the nose "ooga booga" cave man stereotype and to be fair they do employ the eighties heavy metal bouffant hair.  We all know of course any cave man worth his food taste dirt would have dreadlocks and braids.  But hey it was the eighties and we were experimenting with the cave man look. We know better now days.  it is however an interesting idea of a transitional period in evolution when two lines of humans haven't quite speciated yet. Most of the dialogue is subtitled as communication is mostly done through hand signals but it's not a distraction and seems to work.  The movie has stuck with me a day later so they had to have done something right.  It's one of those movies that is going to get me to read the book series.  Plus it does have one of the coolest movie posters of all time.

Vegan Powers Activate!

It is impossible to venture through life without accumulating some scars and personal baggage. At 40 i have few scars but unfortunately i have discovered 20 pounds of personal baggage.  Now this in it'self is not necessarily a problem and many i am sure would give me the finger when i say that i am overweight.  It issue as it turns out is not the weight per say, but the distribution of said weight and the resulting curvatures.  Nature is very specific on this point and compound curvatures are the preferred aesthetic.  Sadly the phenotype is devolving into a rather uninspiring geometry analogous to the equation pi*r^2 or what my cousin so eloquently describes as "like an egg on stilts."  The 6 pack is now a 40oz and on its way to becoming a keg.
So it is time to change something.  Doing an impartial peer reviewed double blind study has produced the following three results:  1) vegans get naked. 2) vegans get laid 3) vegans are just better than everyone else.  That my friend is a hat trick of winning.  If only the food didn't suck.  Running it is.