Archive for April 3rd, 2025
Nothing more than silliness.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025Consumer warning.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025When I am out and about, I like to pick up unusual and different snacks for the Saturday Movie Group to try.
I bought some of these a while back and intended to write about them, but it got past me. Then we stopped at the Buc-ee’s in Hillsboro yesterday, where I saw them for sale again and was reminded that I intended to do a post.
“flock Chicken Skin Crisps”, in various flavors, including Terry Black’s Barbecue. Low-carb, high protein.
Folks, these are vile. Do not purchase these if you have any regard for your taste buds.
We opened the pack of Terry Black Barbecue flavor. It is about the size of your typical snack pack of chips. There were three of us there. None of us had more than one. The rest went into the trash. I don’t recall us ever before having a snack that was so bad none of us could finish it, but these were just that horrible.
Terry Black and Buc-ee’s should be ashamed of themselves for selling something this bad to unsuspecting travelers. Avoid at all costs. I wouldn’t even feed them to an elephant. Buy some beaver nuggets instead.
Obit watch: April 3, 2025.
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025I was busy traveling in elephants yesterday. By the time we got in, got unpacked (do you know how long it takes to unpack an elephant?) and got something to eat…it was late.
So: Val Kilmer, for the historical record. NYT. THR.
Not much to say, really, except that I think both “Heat” and “Tombstone” are pretty good movies. I actually like “Tombstone” better than “My Darling Clementine” (which we watched last week) on the OK Corral movie front.
Charlotte Webb has passed away at 101.
Ms. Webb was one of the last surviving Bletchley Park codebreakers.
Ms. Webb, known as Betty, was 18 when she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the women’s branch of the British Army, and was assigned to work at the base in Buckinghamshire where Bletchley Park was located. From 1941 to 1945, she helped in the decryption of German messages, and also worked on Japanese signals.
In 2015, Ms. Webb was appointed as Member of the Order of the British Empire and in 2021 she was awarded the Légion d’Honneur, France’s most prestigious honor.
Sian Barbara Allen, actress.
Other credits include “Sword of Justice”, “The Rockford Files”, “The F.B.I.”, “O’Hara, U.S. Treasury”, and “The Bold Ones: The Lawyers”.
Lawrence sent over an obit for Patty Maloney. Other credits include one of the spinoffs of a minor 1960s SF TV series, “Trapper John, M.D.”, and voice work in the 1978 “Lord of the Rings”.