Morty the Dog

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Fugitive

"I. Don't. Bargain. You hear that?'

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 63]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Frost/Nixon

"You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies, it diminishes great, complex ideas, stretches of time. Whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot. At first I couldn't understand why Bob Zelnick was quite as euphoric as he was after the interviews, or why John Birt felt moved to strip naked and rush into the ocean to celebrate. But that was before I really understood the reductive power of the close-up, because David had succeeded on that final day, in getting for a fleeting moment what no investigative journalist, no state prosecutor, no judiciary committee or political enemy had managed to get-- Richard Nixon's face swollen and ravaged by loneliness, self-loathing and defeat. The rest of the project and its failings would not only be forgotten, they would totally cease to exist."

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Front

"I figure if you're going to write about human beings you may as well make them people."

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Ocean Shores, Washington

The tsunami warning tower is barely visible on the far left

Morty Comix # 2313

Morty Comix # 2313 visited a restaurant on the westside of Olympia, Washington not too long ago. This place serves Italian cuisine and has a rack where menus from some of their other establishments are displayed. It was inside one of these Morty Comix # 2313 decided to stay.

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Ocean Shores, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: From Russia With Love

"Siamese fighting fish, fascinating creatures. Brave but of the whole stupid. Yes, they're stupid. Except for the occasional one such as we have here who lets the other two fight. While he waits. Waits until the survivor is so exhausted that he cannot defend himself, and then like SPECTRE-- he strikes!"

Monday, March 19, 2012

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Ocean Shores, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: From Here to Eternity

"I wish I didn't love you. Maybe I could enjoy life again"

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 56]

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Giant clam wood carving

Ocean Shores, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: From Dusk Till Dawn

"Peachy, Kate. The world's my oyster, except for the fact that I just rammed a wooden stake in my brother's heart because he turned into a vampire, even though I don't believe in vampires. Aside from that unfortunate business, everything's hunky-dory."

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Damon Point, Ocean Shores, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: The French Connection

"Blast off. One-eight-oh. Two hundred. Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Two-ten. U.S. Government certified. Two-twenty. Lunar trajectory, junk-of-the-month club, sirloin steak. Two-thirty. Grade A poison. Absolute dynamite. Eighty-nine percent pure junk. Best I've ever seen. If the rest is like this, you'll be dealing on this load for two years."

Sunday, March 18, 2012

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Frantic

"Don't mess with me, man! I am an American, and I am crazy!"

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 41]

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Fourth Protocol

"You've betrayed your country. You've passed on untold secrets to Moscow, and endangered the lives of British men and women. And I'd say you've weakened NATO. Perhaps irretrievably. Just you, and your schoolboy politics, and your idiotically conceited faith in your own importance. Now, some of our more muscular colleagues favor taking you to a cell and go to work on you with a carving knife and a pair of pliers. The rest would like to feed you to the newspapers and throw what's left into prison for 20 years. It's a tricky choice, isn't it? However, this is what you will do. You will resume your special relationship with Moscow, only this time I shall be supplying the papers. Understand? And later, when you are finished, we can decide what to do with you."

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Three Persons in One Family Become Insane at the Same Time

A very strange article I found in the Northport News, Oct. 10, 1919.

But before I reprint this article allow me to give my own little Northport story. Back around late 1979, early 1980 my then girlfriend and I were enjoying a beer in mid afternoon in some Northport dive. Some kind of awful country western schmaltz was blaring. A guy who looked like Popeye, with arms to match, plus a t-shirt with some obscene message approached me and asked if I would allow my lady to dance.

OK, I know this town borders Idaho, but even 30 years ago this seemed like a Medieval request. I answered he needed to ask her directly. That response apparently threw him for a loop, but he recovered and then asked her directly. And she told him to perform a physically impossible act. I winced, waiting to be punched in the face, but he walked out of the room quickly in reverse, as if hit by mace. And that is all I remember about Northport.

Now, on to the story at hand. I propose the idea that if Mr. Lutjens was around in more modern times, he could've cashed in as a prophet, as a conduit of an ancient spirit, attracting big bucks from suckers:

Onward

THREE PERSONS IN ONE FAMILY BECOME INSANE AT THE SAME TIMEOne Imbued With the Idea He Has All Power and Was Crucified 2000 Years Ago
"A most peculiar and sad thing has occurred here in the fact three persons in one family becoming demented at about the same time. They are Adolph Lutjens and his two daughters, Mrs. Mills, and Mrs. Art Davis. The two latter were visiting their parents at the Lutjens homestead on Grouse mountain and became deeply interested in a Ouija board, as about all their time was consumed in manipulating it. At the last they would sit for 48 hours at a stretch, we are told, until finally last week they drove their parents out of the house and would not let them return."

"As soon as this was learned in town friends went up to the homestead in an automobile, and after a severe struggle with Mrs. Mills, captured and brought them to the hospital here, and later took them to
Colville, where they were officially examined and committed to the insane asylum at Medical Lake."

"Mrs. Mills' strength was phenomenal, while Mrs. Davis was as docile as a lamb. They continually talked
of angels and heaven."

"On Wednesday, a day or two after the above events occurred, Mr. Lutjens became so violent at a meeting
of the St. Crispin mining company and displayed his hostility so strong toward H.W. Brooks that his friends deemed it advisable to restrain him from liberty for awhile with the idea that after he cooled down he would be all right. After the cell door was locked on him he said it was unnecessary to lock him in, that the angels would liberate him in several minutes. After an hour or so he appeared to be all right and was turned out on the promise that he would go home."

"About 2 o'clock Monday morning of this week Mrs. Lutjens appeared at the home of Mrs. and Mrs. Fred Phillips, about a mile from the Lutjens home, and informed them that her husband was acting so strange she became afraid and ran away. He imagined that an enemy was outside of his house and to prevent him from entering was throwing sticks of wood through the door-way at him. Mrs. Lutjens, who was in bed, asked him what the trouble was, when he went to her bedside and, standing over her with a stick of wood, told her not to move. He then commenced throwing wood through the window. She watched her chance and finally escaped in her bare feet and night gown."

"When this news was brought to Northport, an officer and friends went to the Lutjens homestead, where they found Mr. Lutjens, who quietly surrendered and went along with them. He was taken to Colville the same day by Mr. Maudsley in his automobile, accompanied by Judge Crist and Officer McGovern. Adolf was full of talk most of his way down, his hallucination being that he was full of power and could do
anything that the spirit willed. He rode in the hind seat with Judge Crist, to whom he did the most talking, and he appeared to dislike officer McGovern."

"Upon a hearing he was sent to the insane asylum at Medical Lake."

"It seems the trouble was created through too much manipulation of the Ouija Board. There are several of them in this community and everyone of the crazy things ought to be thrown into a fire."

"The Lutjens are old-timers here, quiet and respected, while the young women and their husbands are also
among our most respected citizens."

"As the devilish device in which they became so interested seems to be the cause of their dementia, we
believe that after they are away from it awhile they will come back to their normal mind. We hope so, at
least, and their relations have our sympathy in their trouble."