Blog Post-Caucuses

OK, the Tuesday night things are over, and Obama and Huckabee got more votes than the other candidates for President, and Biden and Dodd dropped out of the race, and Rudy didn't even show up in Iowa that day, and when the caucii were over the candidates and the media crews all headed to New Hampshire, and Iowa returned to normalcy and the cold spell we have been having. The caucii were chaotic, due to the fact that so many people showed up for their local meetings that many of the school rooms being used did not have room for all the people who showed up. In Des Moines there was so much traffic and closed streets in our downtown that it was difficult to get to the meeting hall and there was no parking. I should give the world my thoughts on why HRC came in second among the Democrats in an upcoming blog entry.
This is a quiet Saturday night. Here I am in my room catching up on some video watching. I just got done watching Darling, with Julie Christie. Interesting 40+ year-old black and white British movie. About half way through the thing it begins to hook the viewer on what will eventually happen to Christie's coniving character as she moves from man to man in her quest for stardom. A movie that needs to be seen more than once to catch the nuances of what is going on.
And now I am watching Lou Costello and Dorothy Provine in The 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock. I saw this one at the hometown picture show in 1960, but did not remember much about what was in it till I found a tape of the thing at a local thrift store, and now after 48 years I am watching it again. It is kinda funny. Costello may have been dying when he made the movie, but he managed to do a movie without Abbott with him. Provine was also good. And Gayle Gordon steals the show.
Actually Costello was playing the kind of schnookie character Don Knotts would be playing in a few years.
This has been a bad weekend in the world weatherwise. Heavy rainstorm in Australia after their worst drought in history. Brush fires in Oklahoma after bad ice storms last month. A bad blizzard in north California and Nevada. And a dam broke in Nevada after supposedly a gopher dug holes in the dam. And heavy rains around Malibu have soaked the burned out area with mud slides.
OK, my own private view of what happened to Hillary in Iowa is that she spent so much time talking about the 35 years of experience she has to be president material that she began sounding like Dole, Humphrey, Clay, and Webster and other candidates who thought their long time in politics would make them statesmen but ended up just being old guys who had been clawing for power for too long, in the view of voters. HRC needs to read up on American history some more. Now that is my own opinion, and you are free to have yours.
This is going to be all for right now. I just put a video of Dumbo into the vcr for late night viewing. Take care, fans and devotees, and I will blog again. Di di mau!