Go and amuse yourself.

Still holds up. Here are my stray observations:

• Kevin’s mother is very concerned with the amount of milk in her home.
   
• Based on Little Nero Pizza’s delivery in 20-minutes or less or it’s free policy, they must have a very small delivery radius.
   
• Kevin’s dad tells him to pick up his micro machines because his aunt nearly broke her neck. Pretty good foreshadowing, right there.
   
• I had the same sheets as the ones on the bed in the attic. 
   
• During the storm montage, the camera cuts to the front door and abruptly zooms in on the Santa Claus head at the center of their wreath. It is very jarring.
   
• The van driver who the kid across the street keeps bothering is the Chicagoiest guy. Best character in the film.
   
• Second best character is Kevin’s Uncle. We learn that he loves the song “Cool Jerk” in the next film, which only strengthens this argument.
   
• They get a lot of mileage out of that one scene of “Angel with Filthy Souls” they filmed.
   
• I wonder if the b.b. gun was included as an homage to A CHRISTMAS STORY (Clark, 1983).
   
• Why did the McCallister’s have a doggy door in their kitchen? That thing was nowhere near insulated enough.
   
• When Kevin buys a pizza, it costs less than $12.
   
• I wonder how much Buzz’s life savings were. Between that pizza and the groceries he bought, Kevin spent less than $20 the whole movie.      
   
• When he’s at the grocery store, Kevin asks the cashier if those microwave dinners are any good. She says she doesn’t know because I guess they were still a new thing at that time.
   
• I really wonder how they got both of those grocery bags to break at the same time.
   
• When Kevin makes his Kraft macaroni and cheese in the microwave, it is prepared in a Styrofoam container.  1990 and 2012 are very different.
   
• Kevin never even gets to eat said microwaveable Kraft macaroni and cheese.
   
• That one line in “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” sounds like she’s saying “later we’ll have some fuckin’ pie.”
   
• Any version of “White Christmas” other than the one in this movie is worthless.
   
• When this film was made, it was entirely plausible to trade things for a plane ticket at the gate. 
   
• The entire theater, myself included, inexplicably found Jimmy Stweart speking French to be hilarious.
   
• R.I.P. John Candy
   
• I’m guessing they didn’t tell U-Haul that they intended on riding in the back of that truck.
   
• The nail looked like the most painful trap.
   
• Even still, I’d say Joe Pesci probably went through more shit than Daniel Stern.
   
• Daniel Stern looks kind of like Aaron Paul.
   
• This might be the only movie with a tarantula reaction shot.
   
• How long was the old man watching before he decided to intervene? Seems like he cut it pretty close.
   
• I think that’s about enough.

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I awaken about noon and go out to get the mail
in my old torn bathrobe.
I’m hung over
hair down in my eyes
barefoot
gingerly walking on the small sharp rocks
in my path
still afraid of pain behind my four-day beard. 

the young housewife next door shakes a rug
out of her window and sees me:
“hello, Hank!” 

god damn! it’s almost like being shot in the ass
with a .22 

“hello,” I say
gathering up my Visa card bill, my Pennysaver coupons,
a Dept. of Water and Power past-due notice,
a letter from the mortgage people
plus a demand from the Weed Abatement Department
giving me 30 days to clean up my act. 

I mince back again over the small sharp rocks
thinking, maybe I’d better write something tonight,
they all seem
to be closing in. 

there’s only one way to handle those motherfuckers. 

the night harness races will have to wait. 

Partially because I’m still not entirely sure how it works.

But that’s okay, I bought some peaches. Really looking forward to eating those peaches. 

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