Will Walk for Blazing Saddles

I spent most of my Sunday relaxing, cooking and cleaning. So it was 6:30 pm by the time I realized we hadn't yet done our easy walk. I've been wanting to watch Blazing Saddles again. I hadn't seen it in a very long time and I really wanted to make a more informed decision about which is the better movie.

We decided to walk to Hollywood Video to rent the movie. (Would I ever have been disappointed if we had walked all the way there, and the movie was out! Which fortunately was not the case...)

The video store is a distance of 3.7 miles, so we walked about 7.5 miles. It was dark by the time we got back, but we did it and we watched the movie later after putting our son to bed.

I had forgotten about the movie's racial component. The sexual innuendo is, of course, classic Mel Brooks. It was certainly good for several laughs, but I came away feeling that the movie is dated and that my child's generation wouldn't really understand why the racial theme was such a big deal. My own generation and the ones that follow me have grown up or are growing up in neighborhoods and classrooms that know no racial division.

As for the question at hand, my answer is: The Princess Bride. By a longshot. I haven't changed my mind.

Rest Day: Blazing Saddles or Princess Bride?

A few weeks ago, I posed the question which was the more classic cult comedy: Princess Bride or Blazing Saddles?

Time is running out! My favorite is Princess Bride which is currently ahead in the polling. Get your vote in now! See the poll in right hand sidebar to vote!

Diet Sabotage

In case I didn't mention it, today is also my birthday. It was a very busy day with lots of errands and things to do, although I did get a 5,000+ step walk in! My neighbor and I set up a standing date to walk on Wednesday mornings. I'm learning a lot about our neighborhood, which we haven't lived in very long.

When I finally got home at 6:30 pm, I walked into the house to a huge bouquet of yellow roses and other yellow flowers. Awww! I've always been partial to yellow roses. It's the flower that my father gave my mother on the day I was born. Sitting next to the flowers and rewrapped, was a set of National Geographic topo map CD-ROMs for California that he had given me some years ago and which have been resurrected now that we have a use for them. This really gave me the giggles! I'm definitely going to have to look up Half Dome!

Duane whisked us both off to dinner at the Mt. Hamilton Grandview, a restaurant about half way up Mt. Hamilton and with a gorgeous view of the Santa Clara Valley, the Bay and the Santa Cruz mountains opposite. The food is good too!

The burning question of the evening's conversation concerned movies. Which is the more classic comedy? The Princess Bride or Blazing Saddles? It seems that the women we talked to at the restaurant leaned more towards The Princess Bride, the men towards Blazing Saddles. I texted my brother Stephen, and even he chose Blazing Saddles. This from the brother who used to "steal" my copy of The Princess Bride for weeks on end until I would find a way to "steal" it back. Traitor! I'll let you decide. I've put up a poll in the right hand column, which will be open until March 18th.

When my birthday falls on Ash Wednesday, as it often does, and I'm supposed to fast and abstain from meat, that does leave me in somewhat of a predicament. I passed on the split pea soup, which contained ham, and I ordered filet of sole, so I managed the "no meat" rule. I was, however, unsuccessful at fasting. Although I did skip breakfast, dinner came with a magnificent slice of blueberry cheesecake. Yum! Definitely diet sabotage! I had a wonderful time! Tomorrow is, however, another day!