Del Rio and Robert Frank

The new blog header is a photo of Mary Frank and the children, with their daughter turned away. The title is "US 90, en route to Del Rio, Texas". WOW! Robert Frank actually went through Del Rio? That is exciting. Just as exciting as when I read in Kerouac's Lonesome Blues Traveler that he had picked up El Debate to read. That was and is the newspaper in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico. My great uncle founded and ran that paper until the early 90s. He was printing it at the time Kerouac picked it up. When I read that I got chills. That's the closest I'll get to Kerouac somehow and thought it was cool.

Halloween Costumes

When I was nine years old I went as Harpo Marx and made my brother go as Charlie Chaplin and my sister was Shirley Temple. This year I might be Frog and Wm Smokey from Smokey and the Bandit.

But I would also like to go as El Chavo del Ocho or Cantinflas because they seem fun. I was a French Maid for a very long time. The party is on the 22nd and not much time to really get into a costume being the perfectionist that I am. Sure Halloween is the 31st but it's a Monday, I work, not interested in 6th Street. Maybe next year I'll be Cantinflas or El Chavo. Those DEVO costumes at Target are cool too!.

Donuts and Peter Fonda

It's cool having a 24 hour donut shoppe :Mrs Johnson's Donuts on Airport is one of my favorite places. When the owner is there I get a free donut with the order. Last night their credit/debit card machines were down so he said to take the dozen and 2 free donuts home and pay him later, that he trusted me. I had checks and wrote one out instead but that was an awfully sweet way to treat a customer. Don't get a whole lot of that around these parts but when it does happen it is like Xmas.

We I them home to eat while watching Race with the Devil, part of the Peter Fonda movie kick I am on. It ended much the same way Crazy Larry, Dirty Mary did though. I loved both flicks! Watching these genres after midnight with donuts makes every week night seem like early Saturday morning with a late night movie before cable took over the world. You don't have nutty local car and furniture store commercials though.

I'd like to watch scary 70s horror flicks this month. Let's start with those based on a true story like The Entity. OOOOOOOOOO Looks scary!!!! The Exorcist, which believe or not I have still not seen since the previews have scared me so much since I was a kid. Seen parts but not the whole thing because it's based on a true story! This year I WILL finally watch these scary movies. They don't have to be that scary to get a scream out of me.