Any time you think you're having a shitty day,
think of this guy.
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This month, back in 1983, "A Christmas Story" was released.
No matter when I see it on TV, I still have to watch it...
The film is set in Hohman, Indiana, a fictionalized version of author Jean Shepherd's hometown of Hammond, near Chicago. The name is derived from Hohman Avenue, a major street in downtown Hammond. Local references in the film include Warren G. Harding Elementary School and Cleveland Street (where Shepherd spent his childhood). Other local references include mention of a person "swallowing a yo-yo" in nearby Griffith, the Old Man being one of the fiercest "furnace fighters in Northern Indiana" and that his obscenities were "hanging in space over Lake Michigan", a mention of the Indianapolis 500, and the line to Santa Claus "stretching all the way to Terre Haute." The Old Man is also revealed to be a fan of the Bears (whom he jokingly calls the "Chicago Chipmunks") and White Sox, consistent with living in northwest Indiana. In commemoration of the setting, the City of Hammond holds an annual exhibit regarding the film in November and December, including a statue recreating the scene where Ralphie's friend Flick freezes his tongue to a flagpole.
Director Bob Clark reportedly sent scouts to twenty cities before selecting Cleveland for exterior filming. Cleveland was chosen because of Higbee's Department Store in downtown Cleveland. (Since Higbee's was exclusive to northeast Ohio, the department store referred to in Shepherd's book and the film is most likely Goldblatt's, located in downtown Hammond (with the Cam-Lan Chinese Restaurant three doors down on Sibley Ave). Until they connected with Higbee's, location scouts had been unsuccessful in finding a department store that was willing to be part of the film. Higbee's vice president Bruce Campbell agreed to take part in the project on the condition he is allowed to edit the script for cursing.
Ultimately, Higbee's was the stage for three scenes in the film: the opening scene in which Ralphie first spies the Red Ryder BB Gun in the store's Christmas window display. (Higbee's was known for its elaborate, child-centered Christmas themes and decorations, with Santa as the centerpiece); the parade scene, filmed just outside Higbee's on Public Square at 3 AM. The parade was filmed at night because during the daytime the 1960s Erieview Tower and Federal Building was visible from the Public Square, as was the BP Tower, which was under construction at the time.
Ralphie and Randy's visit to see Santa, which was filmed inside Higbee's. The store kept the Santa slide that was made for the film and used it for several years after the film's release. Higbee's became Dillard's in 1992 and closed permanently in 2002.
In addition to the scenes involving Higbee's, the exterior shots (and select interior shots where Ralphie lived, including the opening of the leg lamp) of the house and neighborhood, were filmed in the Tremont section of Cleveland's West Side. The house used as the Parker home in these scenes has been restored, reconfigured inside to match the soundstage interiors, and opened to the public as "A Christmas Story House." Appropriately, the fictional boyhood home of Ralphie Parker is on Cleveland Street, the name of the actual street where Shepherd grew up.
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This spring, rumors were swirling that HERBL, one of California’s largest cannabis distribution companies, was on the verge of collapse. So Mike Beaudry, the company’s CEO, sent out an email on May 18 declaring that “these rumors are categorically not true. HERBL continues to be fully operational.” Less than a month later, HERBL had completely collapsed.
HERBL’s failure left a trail of damage that hurt small pot brands and shorted the state some $17 million in unpaid taxes.
There's an interesting article that explains the overly-complex state of the weed biz in Cali - find it here:
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/failed-california-cannabis-distributor-18496585.php
https://www.sfgate.com/cannabis/article/failed-california-cannabis-distributor-18496585.php
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The Department of Veterans Affairs is halting foreclosures for 6 months for homeowners with VA Loans, after an NPR investigation that found thousands of them at risk of losing their homes.
NPR finally did something worth talking about...
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Sometimes, an unexpected little gift
is the best gift of all to give...
Click on the picture for more information on this bracelet.
It's only $ 28.00 and that includes free shipping.
There are a number of new items in her shop. Click here to see them all:
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and I set out on a journey of adventure that eventually had she and I hitch-hiking around the country for six or seven months. Those certainly were different times. That's me on the left if you didn't see the resemblence. Fuck this makes me feel old...
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Christmas is less than five weeks away.
Maybe it's time to start buying gifts.
You can start here...
Click on the picture for more information on this bracelet.
It's one-of-a-kind, only $ 45.00 and that includes free shipping.
There are a number of new items in her shop. Click here to see them all:
Barbara will not be shipping any products after December 15th, so act now.
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Is that "Purple Jesus's" you guys were drinking? It's what we called mixing grain alcahol, gatorade, and grape kool-aid together in a big bowl. When you drank enough...you saw Jesus.
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It's funny you mentioned that. we were drinking wine in this picture. But the three of us out in oklahoma used to do a bunch of batching with ever clear
DeleteYes, JB Pritzer is really full of himself. But you missed the worst of his evil self: he is one of the big guns behind the entire commie sicko transgender empire to destroy the USA while raking in billions.
ReplyDelete"The trans movement was hatched, then, on the fringes of American academia. But how did it move so quickly to the center of American public life? Like many other things, it began with a flood of cash, as some of the wealthiest people in the country began devoting enormous sums of money to promote transgenderism.
One of these people is Jennifer Pritzker, who was born James Pritzker in 1950. After serving several years in the U.S. Army, Pritzker went into business, having inherited a sizable part of the Hyatt hotel fortune. In 2013, he announced a male-to-female gender transition and was celebrated in the press as the “first trans billionaire.” Almost immediately, he began donating untold millions to universities, schools, hospitals, and activist organizations to promote queer theory and trans medical experiments.
This money was allied with political power, as Pritzker’s cousin, Illinois Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker, signed legislation in 2019, his first year in office, to inject gender theory into the state education curriculum and to direct state Medicaid funds toward transgender surgeries. "
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/inside-the-transgender-empire/
"Fuck this makes me feel old..."
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