Grandma Did It

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Ernest Samuel Llime

There are many great bloggers on tumbler. There are a lot more who are not that great, but I try to avoid those ones. Anyway, I ran across Grandma Did It  and there is something about it that grabbed my attention I mean there are all these pictures of beautiful women from the first half of the twentieth century. A lot of them are nude and a few of them are quenching their sexual thirsts in front of the camera. And yes, of course a lot of them may have eventually become grandmas. The hope that some of them lived to actually see their grandchildren cheers me up. The first half of the previous century was a very difficult time historically and seeing young naked women enjoying their life reinforces my belief in the strength and resiliency of the human

spirit. Alas, my personal family history is filled with doom and gloom. Most of my aunts and uncles, as well as my grandparents, perished in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and I never got to meet them. I have only one picture that my aunts are in and they looked very beautiful and sexy. They were of course fully dressed in fashionable dresses of the late 1930’s. There is of course no way that any of my grandmas did any of the things that the grandmas in this blog are doing. Continue reading →

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American Lies

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Ernest Samuel Llime

I do not understand why so many American businesses are fascinated with lying. I am referring to the ones who try to sell you things. In New York City there a number of restaurants that claim to be vegetarian and some are even vegan. Specifically, Happy Buddha, Buddha Bodai, New Bodai and so on. Their menu has many animal names in it and though some have the prefix Continue reading →

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Africa – Angel City Chorale

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Ernest Samuel Llime

This is amazing! Very innovative and very well done. I’d love to see these guys live. However, as I am a critical kind of person, it makes me think of some not necessarily important, yet still pesky issues. The song Africa was written by a couple of white boys and performed by Toto, an all-white band who had a big hit with it in 1982. I saw the video and they had one black girl in it. I mean is that enough? Continue reading →

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The Little Prince

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Ernest Samuel Llime

I have managed to get a copy of The Little Prince animated movie. Before anything else, let me just say that I was very relieved to find out that Disney had nothing to do with it. The movie, an English language French production, has already been released in various parts of the world like China, Japan, Brazil and France of course. It actually did very well financially and it is going to see an American release on March 18 2016. The screenplay writers have added a frame story to the original which did not please me that much, because it cut into the time available for the original story. it was however very well made and the frame story was kind of cute. I watched it with my 4 year old granddaughter and at some point in the story, when the little girl was bonding with the old man, she turned around, hugged me and said:
“I love you grandpa.” Someday, this girl might make a great art critic.
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The Hateful Eight

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Ernest Samuel Llime

I was looking forward to Tarantino’s latest, until I actually saw it. I always thought that the writer/director has some kind of self-destructing wish and this one brings it all home to me. I am usually pissed when a writer builds up a character and makes the reader empathize and even fall in love with him/her, only to kill them off towards the end of the story. In Tarantino’s previous movies it seemed to work though I was not very happy when Christopher Waltz’s character got shot in Django Unchained or Travolta’s got drilled in Pulp Fiction, but somehow those movies seemed to work for me quite well. Continue reading →

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The Best Offer

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Ernest Samuel Llime

The Best Offer is a movie that came out in 2013, but I only got the chance to view it recently. Giuseppe Tornatore did not disappoint; he turned in a masterpiece of writing and directing, as was only to be expected. The cast, led by Geoffrey Rush was impeccable and extremely convincing, making it impossible to guess that some of them were not what they seemed to be.  The main character Virgil Oldman, Continue reading →

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Uzziah & the General

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Ernest Samuel Llime

I am not sure exactly how I can express what I feel every time I hear this kid sing this song. There are hard things that come to mind, so before I say them, let me start by saying that I have only respect and the best of wishes for someone who has this kind of beauty inside.

First the song itself.

There are some doubts about the authors, but the best research indicates that it was written in 1945 by Ephraim Weinstein Continue reading →

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Superhighway by Alex Faynman

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Ernest Samuel Llime

Alex Fayman approached me on Facebook and asked if I could review his book Superhighway. I have a seriously crammed schedule especially with the National Novel Writing Month starting tomorrow. Even as I write this, I still need to tie up a few loose ends, but I still love to read and have managed to shove this one in between some of my other chores. I have to say, that I am not sorry. I enjoyed it very much and it was a fast and easy read without ever becoming juvenile. By that I mean, it did not use any bombastic English words that might necessitate a dictionary, but it was also not written for a 3rd grader. I have been  Continue reading →

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The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Posted on October 22, 2015 by Ernest Samuel Llime

I finally had the opportunity to get acquainted with Jonas Jonasson’s Allan Karlsson .  It’s the movie version of him, portrayed by Robert Gustafsson aand directed by Felix Hendgren. I must say, they did a great job. So much so, that I feel I must cram the novel into my busy schedule. The movie reminded me a lot of Forrest Gump and Little Big man. Just like these two, the 100 year old man owes a big debt to Voltaire’s Candide. I personally have always felt an affinity for Candide and these other two. Just like them, I too have lived through a magical, eventful and screwed up life without seemingly being too affected by it. I started drinking at the age of 8 days old and had a rich sex life that started at the age of 5. I had love Continue reading →

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I M America – part 1

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Ernest Samuel Llime

Dear Mr. Trump

I have been living in this country for the past 40 years. I was born in Romania where I lived for 14 years after which my parents moved to Israel where I lived for 14 more years. By that time, I had gotten married and my wife, who grew up in New York dragged me to this country. I guess you might say that somewhat reluctantly, I have become an immigrant’s immigrant. I did not build the railroads nor the skyscrapers, but I was and I guess I still am, skilled with computers. By now it is obvious that computers play a major role in the infrastructure of just about anything so that was of some use. I guess I did fairly well and I am thankful for the opportunities that the United States gave to me.

Obviously, I do not agree with all the crap that you are saying about immigrants, Continue reading →

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