trying to get back to posting more often here

[ermine_rat]

Drat, a late night showing of "Casablanca" this is a dangerous thing for me, it might derail me from doing anything useful that night. It makes me want to spend time writing that book about the French Fleet

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[klwilliams]

Ditto on old movies. Mathew Broderick is only two years older than I am (same birthday, too).

I'd be leery of possums in chicken coops after dark, too. Though baby possums -- oh, the cute.

[fjorlief]

locking the chooks up at dusk is actually a good idea, (separate from whatever nighttime foo regarding Z) PARTICULARLY if you have local possums. I lost a hen in a particularly gory (as in torn to pieces) fashion to an adult possum that got into the henhouse one night because I forgot to lock it up early enough. Baby possums might be cute, but just remember, possums have more teeth than any other North American animal...

[tafelspitz]

I'm with you on watching older movies.My tastes got shaped by the surfeit of old movies that used to be on broadcast television. I don't think I could use your definition of an 'old movie' though. That would mean films such as _The Adventures of Robin Hood_, _Gone With the Wind_, or _Ivanhoe_ wouldn't be old movies.

[ermine_rat]

I was struggling for a definition, especially since people in their twenties refer to "Feris Bueller's day off" as an old movie... I figure when all the principle actors are dead, it sounds pretty safe, even though Liz Taylor, Christopher Lee and Clint Eastwood are in a lot of old movies...