bar talk

 So glad to see Old Dog posting.  Every morning one of the first things I do is go to The Institute to see whazup and for all of December and parts of November and January nothing was up.  I know that Old Dog fancies these long silences but it saps my willingness to post if I know that I will have to wait like a month to get a response and by that time any threads I was hoping to spark have died.

There are topics that I'm still pondering, not sure if I am able to bring light to the issues or am just prolonging pointless arguments.  We three are very different and I think it best to keep my mouth shut most of the time.

I don't mind pointless arguments.  Back in the day of Ten Cat seminars Old Dog was a big fan of Bar Talk or bullshit sessions, where you just ramble on, first thing that pops into your mind and you don't mind if others disagree or when the topic changes.  Nothing wrong with ratholes, it's about the journey and not the destination.  

But we have discussed this many times.  

I am wondering where Old Dog has been watching No Other Choice.  It's not available to stream though I know that Old Dog knows certain internet shortcuts. 

But I am a big fan of the director, Park Chan-wook.  Loved Oldboy and the other two Vengeance Trilogy movies before and after Oldboy.  Now there are movies.

Speaking of movies I saw The Wild Bunch a week or so ago and it holds up very well.  Nothing but outlaws and the good guys are not much better than the bad guys, but you root for them anyway. 

We are having a cold snap here lately, but major storms, of which we seem to have a lot lately (or is just media hype, very photogenic these storms), but they seem to hit south (snowstorms) or north (really cold snaps).  This last one went to the north and smacked Cheyboygan pretty hard and I thought of Beagles out there way north and way out in the country.  Hope that Beagles got through that ok.  I have been dipping into the Cheyboygan Daily Tribune lately and they did not seem to think the storm was such a big deal.  Hardy folk, unlike us down south who tremble at a few inches of snow.

Save Trump for last is the way we anti Trumpers do things because if you start too early that is all you talk about the whole night, best to save it for the last beer.  One thing I used to think of Trump was at least he wasn't getting us into any wars, you would think he is the kind of guy who would like to wear a military hat and a chestful of bogus medals, but now he is rattling the saber to beat the band.