It’s my day off, apparently.   I’m doing something productive, right after this post.   I swear.

I watched this shit as a kid on Saturday morning, and I loved it.  I think we woke up early so we could see it.    Seems kind of funny now.   Its when hippies finally admitted they needed jobs  and I guess started making TV shows.    Maybe it explains a thing.    I watched.

Remember Lidsville?  (back in the 70’s, a “lid” was an ounce of Marijuana).     Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) was in this one.

Even if you don’t remember Lidsville, you probably remember this one if you’re old enough.   Wait, “Puff-n-Stuff?”   Huh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obxfuFrUTzg

This was probably my favorite.   I was into dinosaurs as a kid, so this was in my wheelhouse at the time.   I may have even been a  hair too old to be watching cartoons at the time.   Land of the Lost. Marshall, Will and Holly, on a routine expedition:

Went to see Unbroken tonight with my brother & his wife, my wife, and my future son in law and my daughter.   It looked like a good flick, and my brother had read the book.

I knew that Angelina Jolie directed it, and knew barely anything about the story.   Bla bla bla… I honestly can barely give a shit about Angelina Jolie, and I really don’t think too much of Hollywood.  I watched it, and was almost critical of a true story.    The shit that I normally really love and am inspired by.    I suspected an angle, or that Jolie had cheapened it by being on the tabloids so much.    I was more excited that my brother got sick of having his chair kicked by a dude in an almost empty theater, and that he turned and called him on it, and that I was ready to help out if he didn’t go find another seat (which he did).

We drove home, a few exits away and come home and was still a bit bugged by it all.     Felt like I was missing something.    I was.   The real life story of Louis Zamperini is way more compelling.   These are the guys of the greatest generation, and Louis was one of the greats.

Good call Angelina.   I think I respect you just a little bit more, in the way that I have come to respect guys like Tom Hanks, who have done similar tributes.     Worth seeing I think.   The real story needs no hype, and is better than the movie.     Great men do great things all the time, and a man with strength of character wins the day.       I’ll watch this one again.