My sons were in college and I was in the old USSR studying Soviet ways when Millennials were born. (The early 1990s.) Personally I know very little about them, except by observing them during my daily mid-morning routines at the…
Author: vassar
“One of These Day I’m Gonna Run This Construction Company!”
For those of you old enough, there was a beatnik comedian from the 60s named Brother Dave Gardner. He told a story about going to a construction site where he saw a fellow standing over by the gravel pile with…
“You Bastard!”- In-yer-Face Lines to Remember, from Lee Marvin
“The Professionals” was 1966 Western starring Lee Marvin, Burt Lancaster, Jack Palance and Robert Ryan. One of the best, leading into other great films of that decade, ending with “The Wild Bunch”, 1969, which also included Robert Ryan. It’s worth…