Spitball Army

Mom vs. Fred in Scrabble.

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Watching Golden Boy with Mom. There is a black character named Chocolate Drop. Did I mention the film was made in 1939?

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Mom’s film review: The people who work there are so nice. I forgot my sweater. The popcorn was salty. Is Tom Hanks from Boston?

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Unexpected mix of murder, mental imbalance & maternal loyalty. Filmed with arresting visual style. Disturbing, fascinating.

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In the opening credits to Shane, Jack Palance is billed as Walter Jack Palance. When Shane changes from his light blue long-sleeved shirt to his buckskin frontiersman duds, you know he means business. Shane subplots: homesteaders vs. cattle baron gangs; young boy’s hero worship; gunfighter struggling to suppress his past; love triangle. I tell Mother […]

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We sit in Mom’s open garage on rollators, like old folks. Deaf Guy across the street belches periodically; we laugh, then wait.

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Approximate playing time: 79 minutes.

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The toy gun from a Tijuana cart gets its cork removed on the long ride home. He sits behind Mom in the car, taunting: “Pop! Pop!”

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“In Spring a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love.”

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We talk about my cats, 15 years old, aged, sickly, how I’ll handle their certain fate. We talk: she, my 77-year-old mother, and I.

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