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Making The World Go Away On A Rainy Friday Afternoon

10/28/2023

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​Making The World Go Away On A Rainy Friday Afternoon

      Yesterday it was a drizzly day in the neighborhood and too wet to go outside and rake the leaves,
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...or do any of the other seasonal yardwork waiting to be done.     
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      Meanwhile the news was too dreadful to sit around inside and catch up reading the papers.
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      Around noon I said to Tom, "Let's just ditch the remaines of this dreary day and go catch a movie."
       My mate agreed that this was a capital idea, and so we drove over to the AMC at Easton. our local mall,
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...from where we had a nice variety of flicks to choose from, from the faith-based,
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...to the inspirational,
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...to the super-scary.
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      We decided to go with "Dicks: The Musical,"
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...which turned out to be a faith-based film. Of sorts. It was also pretty absurd. But thought-provoking, all the same. However if you're not down with every other word being a a rank obscenity, it might not be your cup of tea. (The gent sitting next to us left after about fifteen minutes. Good he did, it got way raunchier).  
   However it was a bright, bouncy, colorful sing-along musical with a small but terrific cast with the singing, dancing and acting chops to pull it all off. Provided one wasn't too easily offended. Let's just say that "Dicks: The Musical," made "The Book of Mormon" look G-rated. Maybe pre-G-rated.   
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      Anyway, the story line of "Dicks: The Musical" centers around a pair of self-absorbed, successful, macho, Alpha Male womanizing twins, played by Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp,
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...who were separated at birth. Trying to out-compete each other while slaving  away for their Alpha Female boss, played by a show-stopping Megan Thee Stallion,
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...the twins discover each other and come to the realization that what they've been craving in life is the real family that they missed out on in their childhood.
      They go on a quest to bring back together their long-separated parents. But their father, played by Nathan Lane on his Broadway crooning and hoofing game,
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...cares far more about his two horrible pets than his own sons.
        Megan Mullilly plays their equally weird mother,

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...who claims that her vagina keeps escaping, so she keeps it in her purse.
      Watching over the family drama is God, played hilariously by Saturday Night Live comic Bowen Yang.
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      In truth, though "Dicks: The Musical" was more outrageous than clever, it did have its moments as well as messages about greed, kindness, family, religion, tolerance, equality, the Gospel and, above all, love, all told in the vulgarest of the vulgate.
      Still, Tom and I liked the movie and afterwards we stopped to talk about it from time to time while we strolled around the mall.
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        We then decided to go out for an early dinner in hopes of beating the usual Friday night restaurant crowds. 
             Inspired by the photos of the delicious-looking food that our daughter, who's visiting Mexico with her friend, has been sending us,

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...we decided to go to our favorite Mexican restaurant, Chuy's, with its cheerful interior,
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...where we split an order of our standard Chuy's favorite, the oh-so-tender beef fajitas
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     After dinner we were craving some dessert, so our next stop was Meijer's bakery where we figured we'd find something yummy. We settled on a small cake.
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     When we got home we decided to just pull out a couple of utensils and fork it.
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     We made it about halfway through.
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      After we finished our cake the night was still relatively young, so we watched one more movie, "Blackberry," which rounded out the evening nicely.
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  The next day the world, the rain, and the news would be back. But was nice to get away for a little while.
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