Let's talk about AVENGERS: ENDGAME. And super-heroes in general and how they've fully integrated themselves into mainstream culture instead of being just "kid's stuff". (SPOILER-FREE) First of all, AVENGERS INFINITY WAR/ENDGAME is the culmination of ten years of film world-building from MARVEL STUDIOS...in effect creating a cinematic version of their comic MARVEL UNIVERSE story by story, movie by movie...It began with IRON MAN and then regular releases followed, got the heroes together, build a modern epic all leading up to THIS...an epic that fires on all cylinders...emotional, mythic, and with a sense of cosmic wonder. Here's the list if you're interested.......... https://www.cineworld.co.uk/blog/marvel-avengers-infinity-war-movie-countdown The result is that super-hero movies/comics/stories seem to be considered an actual literary/cinematic GENRE now. Like The Western has become. Or The Detective Story. The Romance. Many of these genres have lofty ...

Vacation is over. Went back to work as a flight attendant for a major legacy carrier. Had to talk to the base manager about a complaint letter written about me. Unlike in the past, I did not obsess over this. Just talked to her, resolved it, and moved on with my life. Serving the public can be a soul-sucking endeavor but I have the adequate tools for it and I'm learning more every day.

A couple days back, I stumbled onto George Lucas' AMERICAN GRAFFITI on STARZ or another cable channel.  Took me no time at all to get me sucked in even though the last time I had actually seen the thing was back in the late Seventies in a second run theater. (It could be that I saw GREASE there too. I remember REALLY not liking GREASE either. Songs were great, the plot stitching them together, not so much.) It was probably an unconscious rebellion against what was popular as well...I remember everyone swooning about how great it was. John Travolta was white-hot at the time. That meant nothing to me. All I saw were these twenty-something actors/actresses pretending to be teenagers....) But A N Y W A Y......I remember loving GRAFFITI because it was everything GREASE was not: REAL. It was basically a love-letter to George Lucas' halcyon youth in late Fifties/Early Sixties California. It was all there. Classic cars, cruising down the main streets of America, drag-racing, rock and...

Sometimes you see one of those nature shows where you realize just how horrific and brutal nature really is. A writhing, slow-motion, multi-coiled, many-scaled reptilian nightmare as a gazelle slowly gets swallowed into a constrictor's gaping mouth. Or the frog without an actual head... there's just this wide maw that you can look down into with these weird handlike mandible things on either side. And then it hopped over to one of the people recording the footage. And then a horrifed, endless shrieking that will go on and ON until human history crumbles into dust. Why do I find all this hilarious?

Spring is coming...and my hubby has all of these little DIY projects in mind....and me, I usually duck out of housework unless it is absolutely necessary. For example, the desk I am typing on looks like a light snowfall accumulated across it. I should really start thinking about passing a dust rag along the flat  surfaces one of these days... As it is, hubby "suggested" that I blow the pile of dead leaves out from in front of the door. It only took a few minutes but some wind was fighting me at one point. And all l could think was "futility. Why bother? Wouldn't chilling out be a whole lot EASIER?" I am naturally a lazy person. I'd rather put my feet up, read, write a letter, or watch a movie that doing ANYTHING else. This used to shame me a lot. Now it  shames me only a little bit.

It's that time of decade again....I have to renew my passport for my air travel job...What with all of the fees...expedition, overnight mailing, renewal, yadda, yadda...it costs just under $200.00 The more you know, right? News you can use...