In Eckleburg's Eyes - 12/23/2008, Part 1

On Monday, JTH and I continued our Christmas preparations.

While we were working, we watched movies. I forced JTH to watch the 1966 film Batman: The Movie. It is a spin-off of the popular television series starring Adam West as Batman. He had never seen it before and I consider it required viewing. It brings campy to a whole new level. As an example, this is one of my favorite parts of dialogue. Keep in mind it is delivered with great earnestness:

Batman (reading one of The Riddler's riddles): “What has yellow skin and writes?”
Robin: “A ballpoint banana.”
Batman: “Of course.”

After viewing the work of art, we took a break to eat lunch at Gattis. The price of the buffet has gone up since last we ate there. Why is it that every time we run into someone who looks like they would answer to the name “Hoss”, they know JTH?

The heat was out in my sector of the house and I knew it was getting to JTH when on the way home he suggested, “Let’s wrap the gifts in your car.” So I headed to K Mart, the closest retail store, to procure a space heater.

While there we ran into former church member and Tennessee football player (1973-1976) Ron McCartney (RLM). He is like me in that he is a nice guy but you wouldn’t want to play basketball with him. It was good catching up with RLM, who was decidedly not pleased with the quality of the going out of business sale.

As an aside, JTH thinks RLM’s name sounds like an alcoholic beverage - “I’ll have a Ron McCartney on the rocks.” What do you think?

After some searching, we found this space heater. The dipalyn item was the only one left and they refused to discount it more than the 20% off the already high K Mart price. It did not even have a box! Natrually, we tested it in the store. We were pressed for time, so I shelled out the $52.43. JTH insists it was the best purchase I have made all year.

We then returned to my house and in deference to JTH watched The House Bunny. Suffice it to say, the movie was not nominated for any Academy Awards. Not surprisingly, JTH loved the movie. His enjoyment did, however, make him angry at TJK who had sold his copy of the DVD to a customer the previous Saturday.

After wrapping gifts most of the day, we headed across town to JTH’s house where he had forgotten the tickets to the concert we would be attending that night and then to pick up ALK.