”It’d be interesting to see a film from an alien perspective. Maybe we’re the weird ones.”
Today is yesterday. That may sound cryptic, but I’m talking about the weather. Today’s high will be 83°. The humidity is 80%. Yesterday I turned on my AC. The downstairs is nice and cool, but the upstairs is still hot. I’ll be camping, sort of, in the den with the dogs.
The drawback with the AC is having to keep the doors shut. The dogs and I, out of necessity, have developed a pattern. Nala taps the poochie bells, her signal for me to get up and let them out. I let both dogs out. Henry comes right back inside the house. I shut the door on Nala. When she wants in, she taps the dog door over and over, enough to drive me crazy. We do this several times. I am no longer in control
When I look out the window, I see a pretty day with lots of sun in a blue, blue sky. In the thick air only the leaves at the ends of the branches flutter, and my chimes are still.
Shark week has started. It is time to bring out Jaws for another showing. I’m thinking a movie on the deck.
When I was a kid, I loved soft summer rain. I never minded getting wet. My clothes dried quickly. If the rain was a bit stronger and made puddles, I’d walk barefoot through the gutters kicking the water in wide arcs from side to side. I smiled the whole time. It gave me joy.
I watch a lot of science fiction movies. My favorites are black and white films from the 50’s. The aliens are seldom good. They usually want our planet. Even the gigantic ants, spiders and crabs, our own creations, think of us as dinner. Invaders from Mars is still a favorite. Anyone who loves this movie immediately recognizes the fence ending at the field. I rewatched The Blob the other day. I think the future is in jeopardy. The Blob stops growing in the cold. It was dropped on Arctic ice. With global warming it will be back.
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July 8, 2024 at 11:33 pm
Hi Kat,
Today was mostly cloudy and breezy with a high of 85°. We did have some periods of light rain. The hurricane made land fall as a category one hurricane near Madagorda bay early in the morning. About three million people are without power along the Texas coast. The heavy rainfall occurred east of us.
When I was a kid I liked all those science fiction movies based on the red scare. We watched aliens attack us from outer space while doing duck and cover under our desks in elementary school. I always wondered how that maneuver would protect us from a direct hit from a hydrogen bomb. In the 1950s, Carswell AFB in Ft. Worth was the main base for B36 bombers which could attack Russia. We were a prime nuclear target.
I used to suffer from nightmares after watching those sci-fi films. Today, I still won’t watch the 1954 version of War of the Worlds nor any of its newer versions. Surviving a tornado was the most scary thing that has happened in real life and that should give me nightmares. 🙂
July 9, 2024 at 1:02 am
Hi Bob,
We stayed cloudy in the afternoon then a bit later the fog rolled in. I could see it moving across out of the trees. It was another humid day. Luckily, at my uke concert, the clouds stayed around as it gets brutal sitting there in the sun.
I liked creature features like THEM with the giant ants, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Monolith Monsters. Blame the A-bomb.
The only movie which ever scared me was The Wax Museum. I was young and watching it in the dark in my bedroom. When the female main character hit Vincent Price, the bad guy, in the face, his face fell off. Luckily I didn’t have nightmares. The only one I ever had was because of a book, not a movie.