"If we get wet, we get wet."

On the way back from the commissary, some drizzle sprinkles the windshield, and Pop starts to speed up.

I assure him that there is no need to hurrty and wreck. "If we get wet, we get wet."

He said, "I heard that."

Skyfall

All the buzz for the new double-oh-seven flick is killing me. I may have to work up some pluck and energy to go out and see it, after all.

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After the promise of Casino Royale and the anti-climax of Quantum Of Solace, the question was whether he (or new director Sam Mendes) would be able to bring anything fresh to a series that has been running for half a century. The answer is, yes, absolutely. If not a full blown triumph, this is certainly one of the best Bonds in recent memory.

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Craig again impresses as Bond. He switches without fuss from Roger Moore-style self-deprecating comedy (adjusting his cuff links in action sequences) to the darker, more intense scenes which focus on Bond’s childhood traumas. The film, one of the longest in the recent Bond canon, occasionally becomes repetitive. The plot doesn’t really stack up and the Sam Peckinpah-style finale, in the Scottish Highlands, initially seems a little self-indulgent given all the shootouts and chases we’ve already seen. However, the film ends with an emotional kick that you don’t often find in Bond. It also shows the way forward. At the age of 50, there is no sign at all that Bond is finished yet.

-- ONTD

Miley's New Movie

Miley also has a movie coming out.

I have to be honest. I don't think I could care to even record it on my DVR to watch it when it comes on cable TV. I need more sex appeal and less hilarious comedy.

(ONTD)

Jack Kerouac

One of the many surprises tucked away in the vast Jack Kerouac Archive at the New York Public Library is the tiny pocket notebook in which Kerouac reacted in the fall of 1947 to a conversation he'd just had with his mother. She had been horrified by a story in her morning paper about bands of abandoned children living in caves in a remote part of Italy, who were ravaging the countryside in their search for food and having sex and babies as early as 13. Jack's mother wanted the Pope to step right in and put a stop to this. Her son wrote in his notebook: "I want to go there."

-- Joyce Johnson at Huffington Post

Joyce Johnson is also the one with the new biography on Kerouac, and in this article, she gives us a taste of how ambivalent and uncertain Keruouac was about a movement, the Beat Generation, that he ostensibly originated.