It’s fall. The fruits ripen and make their way into our home to been eaten, peeled, canned and saved. There’s nothing like having the fresh taste of ripe fruit on a cold winter’s day.
Poached Pears
More Poached Pears
This is something we can look forward to.
Canned, poached pears in syrup and wine…a little thyme, some bay and a slice of lemon peel. Are you hungry yet?
Recently, I watched Eagle Eye, one of last year’s hollywood blockbusters. At the beginning of the movie, the heroine parties with her friends and, as her first step to the party, she downs a boilermaker. Do you know what a boilermaker is? Yep, you drop a shot of whiskey into a pint of beer and down it all in one gulp. She gulped like a pro. Following this action, she receives a phone call and that action sends her on the thrilling roller coaster ride which forms this movie. Car chases, close calls, plane trips, shooting, general mayhem – you get the idea.
Never once does she visit the “little girl’s room.” Even when she finally stops and takes a nap. Even when she finally exits a crate where she traveled for several hours in a plane after taking said nap.
Now, I don’t know about you, but when I down a drink like that, I have to pee about fifteen minutes after. If I stop after having something exciting happen, the first thing I usually need to do is find the latrine. Also, as soon as I wake up – no matter where – I need to pee. Finally, the first thing I usually do after a plane ride? You guessed it! I make a beeline for that airport bathroom.
I guess that fictional characters never felt the need to hit the john (except in dire comedic situations – see All in the Family). Since I’ve begun to notice this phenomenon, I have decided that this must be the reason that so many of those spies and action heroes are on edge! Think about it. I counted at least twenty different places that John McClane should have visited the powder room in the last Die Hard movie – twice that for his little tagalong friend! Both of them needed a major trip to the can.
And James Bond? With all his martinis? He should definitely be more chilled out with all that vodka in him. But he’s still on edge! Why? No break for the WC!
I’m sure you can fill in the blank with your own action hero. I mean, I do get it. There’s not lots of drama going on in the lavatory and no reason to put it on-screen, but I do wonder if some of these actors don’t use this inaction as motivation.
“Okay, I’m John McClane. I’m driving a semi truck while a jet plane tries to shoot me off the highway. I need to poo! Grrrr! Let’s take the shot!”
Yep. I can’t imagine what else would cause them to make those faces.
