Like the undead rising from the grave, some of Hollywood’s superannuated stars are lumbering back to the big screen.  

There’s Sylvester Stallone, still violent after all these years in “Bullet to the Head.”  Arnold Schwarzenegger playing an unlikely southwestern sheriff in “The Last Stand.”  And Bruce Willis is on deck with yet another “Die Hard” venture, set in Moscow.

I think Becky would like to begin with an apology to the nurses who took care of her the one night she spent in the hospital after her gastric bypass surgery. Suffice it to say, she will not go down in history as a so-called compliant patient. She confesses that, “Tuesday night I guess I was an absolute pill to the nurses.”

The following night she was home in her own bed, feeling pretty wiped out but in no pain. In fact, physically, she has been feeling great. “I feel really, really fortunate that I’ve had no complications,” she reports. “I’ve had no pain. I’ve taken no pain medications. I’ve been up and around doing things since I got home, and I’ve been driving since last Friday.” Read more.

My blog is practically a two-for-one discount.

I'm thinking about about the 1893 Chicago World's Fair through two books.... Erik Larson's Devil in the White City, as well as my adventure rescuing Shepp's World's Fair Photographed.

Devil in the White City itself is "two-for-one;" it's about how the Fair was imagined, constructed, enjoyed, and destroyed.... AND about the psychopathic serial killer Henry Holmes.

Where and when did the world first enjoy Pabst Blue Ribbon?  1893 World's Fair.  How about Cracker Jack?  World's Fair.  That gadget we take for granted keeping our jeans closed...