Reinvention of the SELF!

 I choose to reinvent my SELF as THE HOMILYIZER! Yes, the aging harmless goofball with scattershot opinions that harm no one. Nothing is to be taken seriously. I make that plain in the little blurb thing at the top of this blog. but I say it again. I'm so old I remember when people put spotlights on their cars. My dad did that, and when we would go to the drive-in picture show and waited for the movie, folks would play spotlight tag on the movie screen. I recall a drive-in that had a playground below the screen. I recall a time when drive-ins had a nice snack bar, for popcorn and sodas, and some kinds of fast food, like nachos, hot dogs, and even hamburgers, and it was not bad stuff at all. It makes me sad that such things are gone, it makes me sad that now, you go to a movieplex and instead of letting folks enjoy sitting in the dark and quiet, you are bombarded with advertising. That's why I have not been to a movie theater in many years. The experience sucks. In the old days, maybe a few brief ads just before the movie began. Then a cartoon feature. And then THE BLOB! I remember when every child starting out in the Catholic school I attended from the first to the eighth grade, was required to have a cigar box to store the little supplies required. I remember how cluttered my school desk became and the frantic efforts I made to dig out the required textbook or notebook. In fact, I still have nightmares about that. Those nuns were mean, at least some of them. They were not above humiliation and corporal punishment that verged on torture, like being forced to kneel on a hardwood floor with arms extended, and if the arms dropped, WHACK! Out came the hard wooden ruler the nuns always carried and wielded as a weapon. They made children cry. They pulled ears. SOP in those days. It was called discipline. Not much of that anymore. 

I'm going to WRITE more! I'm going to ramble more, and even when I rant, I will do so with gentleness and there will be no bad talk or loud talk, and you should all enjoy your beer and BBQ.