Hola, Sneakers! It’s Episode 604 of the podcat made in the 604!
This week: time trouble; reserved for ghost wars; let’s praise psych-horror; don’t let ’em in; incoherent film-making; third eye blind; hot shots; hot rats; squirrel bait; no good news; interesting normality; spider bits; cartoon commentary; favourite burn-outs; places I remember; the wrong side of the mountain; the power of indifference; pity the left-handed; sad back stories; executive power plays; whiffed opportunities; the alien from Germany; Elemental as anything; goin’ mobile; Fantastic Four pitches; start strong and end strong; inconsistent characters; hate cute; Kipling returns; the Anti-Heroic Age; it takes a villain; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; past correspondence; The Flash failures; more time trouble; navigating dementia; ravin’ about birds; and, finally, all about Sautumn-y.
Question of the Week: How do you get rid of pests?
Sub-question of the Week: Dave is going to the UK! Do you have big plans for the summer?
Thanks for listening.
To understand what Dave is calling Psych-Horror (as in psychedelic horror – not psychological), watch these trailers:
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Ants. Every summer. They climb up the side of the house to the second floor and infiltrate the kitchen. We’ve set out lids with borax and honey which is sometimes successful. We’ve also used Terro brand liquid-filled ant traps. Active ingredient? Borax. One year, I put sugar water outside on the porch for them and that did the trick. But I got tired of refilling it when the water evaporated. This year when they showed up, I put out an ant trap but then they suddenly all disappeared. I think they discovered our garden trimmings and kitchen scraps bin outside because it’s crawling with them. Fingers crossed they keep enjoying the free buffet and leave our counters alone.
Dave, we hear in the news that the Orkney Islands is seeking more independence from the UK. Try not to get swept up in the revolt — or at least limit your participation to coming up with a Top 5 song list about revolutions!
Dave! I didn’t mean to trigger you with that random review of The Flash, comparing it to “Skidoo”, next time I’ll just mention the Sex Pistols poster on a bedroom wall of some random 80’s movie. I thought it was a kind of funny considering The Marx Brothers Council podcast just did a show on “Skidoo”, which is actually fun to lampoon. You’re correct though, the 60’s wasn’t fertile ground for comedy, Thank God we got Star Trek out of it.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that rats started showing up in my backyard after my male cat, Mr. Jinx passed a year ago. These rats drive my dogs crazy when they see them or pick up their scent. Chewie, my half Maltese – half Shitzu is obsessed, especially since Maltese dogs were once bred to hunt rodents. The rats were seen running along the fence and at the top of my pergola in the back, so I set out a few traps to solve the problem. I think I caught three in two days at one point but as soon as we thought they were gone, a few months would pass and they would show up again. I think since last September the total was six of seven, then I caught two birds in the traps, so I disabled them. There was one last rat I don’t think I caught, he seemed to have the whole situation figured out and I’d find the traps sprung with nothing caught in them…we named him Einstein. Once it started to warm up, some of the neighborhood cats have been prowling around down the alley. I think that did the trick and I don’t want to Jinx it (!) but maybe that’s the end of the rats for now.
Just like the half dozen summers before this one, not going anywhere. I can’t afford it. My daughter and her husband just moved back to the Dallas area from West Texas and Susan’s eldest just moved back to Texas and will live in Houston after working in New Jersey for the last few years. If anything, we’ll spend our extra time helping the kiddos get settled now that everyone has landed back here at the same time! So great to have them close again!
LOVED Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny! That’s all I’ll say for now, I await to hear your feedback. I thought it was a terrific sendoff for our intrepid Doctor Jones and I left the theater smiling through tears over it all. 42 years of fortune and glory with zero regrets.
Dave, enjoy England! and Cheerio to all my Dear Sneakers!!