OTFPOTD 8/5 An "I Don't Have a Title" Edition

4) OT, OTFPOTD, hell, have we ever standardized this? Does anyone give a shit? I don’t, I just happen to notice and can’t break down certain acronym variations I see.

I feel like I’m going to make someone feel bad if I don’t show my love equally.

what’s your problem, msb?

I’ll probably get a lot of disagreement here, but Catcher in the Rye is a pretty disappointing book if you don’t get to it at an appropriately AHngsty age. Another one for me was William Golding’s Free Fall, which I thought was phenomenal in highschool but on a second reading was kinda meh.

On the other hand For Whom the Bell Tolls is still great, Borges is still profound and challenging and,, I dunno, I need to think about these a little longer.

Because I remember 1 month ago when Dan Cortes was a struggling starting pitcher who had walked more than a batter per inning for a good stretch of starts and I remember at about that same time Josh Lueke was the third best player in the package for Cliff Lee who was too old and had a shady history.

Now they’re two of my favorite prospects. In one month.

1. Not particularly nostalgic, but I assume that most everything I liked as a kid in the 70’s would not hold up today. Things are very different now culturally and what was entertaining then is not so much now. What did stick with me? An abiding love of Ray-Ban Wayfarers. What do I want to try again? Nothing, really, I’m pretty happy in the here and now.

2. Barbecuing on the deck. It can be done in the winter, but it’s not the same.

3. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

100 Grand and Take 5. Sometimes I go with Three Musketeers because I convince myself it’s the “healthy” candy bar.

kind of a tossup between Twix and KitKat. I could do without the caramel in Twix – too sweet. And the dark chocolate KitKat is pretty awesome.

I saw Batman and Robin in theaters and somehow thought it was a good movie (GOD I DON’T KNOW). I think only a year after that I lobbied for it when we were renting movies. Watching it with my family, I couldn’t believe how stupid it was and guiltily kept looking around the room, regretting my decision even more as the movie plodded on.

The Seven Up bar did not hold up to its promise, and the Three Musketeer bar is really just too sweet and cloying anymore.

Candy bars you could get for 2/50 cents? Hmm. Peppermint patties? Reeses cup?

doubt they’re made anymore though.

HOW WERE THESE NOT MORE SUCCESSFUL

I have all of them and they’re not even collector’s items because no one ever collected them except me.

Oreo brownie mix. Not the pre-made, wrapped oreo brownie bars, but a take home mix made by Betty Crocker or Pillsbury or something. You mix the brownies and bake them like normal, but somewhere at the end you add the added crumbled oreo bits. When you pull it out of the oven, you then drizzle the included oreo icing over the whole thing and let it set for a bit.

IT WAS THE GREATEST DESSERT EVER AND I CAN’T FIND ANY RECORD OF ITS EXISTENCE.

I guess I liked It’s It ice cream thingys.

If not, Robert should invent one.

Do you think kids are stupid? Or perhaps that they just don’t have enough life experience to know what’s good or bad? At what point do kids stop being stupid?

Case in point: I am pretty sure I loved movies like Mac and Me and Howard the Duck when I was a kid. Granted, I still love those movies today – but for opposite reasons. Oh, and The Wizard too. I didn’t just think they were funny, I thought they were really well made. Now, sometimes popular kids movies are actually fantastic. The Goonies and Toy Story for instance. But oftentimes you go back to a movie you haven’t seen in years and you’re blown away how wrong you were.

Even as a young teenager I loved movies like Surviving the Game and Judgment Night. Are kids really that stupid or is there another explanation?