Why eat? You’re only gonna get hungry again.

I’m rewatching an old Philip Marlowe “detective” movie, “The Lady in the Lake.” Robert Montgomery is playing Marlowe, and this is the movie where much of it is seen from the perspective of Marlowe. I guess you could call it a “Marlowe Cam.”

*Robert Montgomery was the father of Elizabeth Montgomery, who played the witch, Samantha Stevens in “Bewitched.” *And I just finished watching a beautiful, young woman, Elizabeth Montgomery, in the movie, “Johnny Cool” who was played by Henry Silva. **Henry Silva being the bad guy who betrayed the American soldiers in “the Manchurian Candidate.” I guess I would classify “Johnny Cool” as a “film noir.” But, I also recall Elizabeth Montgomery in an episode of the “Twilight Zone” in which she played opposite Charles Bronson.

“Bewitched” was probably loosely based on “Bell, Book & Candle.” There may have been more than one of those movies (without me checking online). Seems Jimmy Stewart and “the blonde” Kim Novak, did the later version and I think Veronica Lake (an early goddess) played the original. **Of course Stewart and Novak played against each other in Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.”

So in part of the banter between Marlowe and “the woman” (played by Audrey Totter) he says, “Why eat? You’re only gonna get hungry again.” I caught it, and thought it funny.

Now Fredric March played the President in “Seven Days in May,” which is a classic movie I like to watch, and rewatch. Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, and an assortment of well known supporting actors. I like Andrew Duggan when I see him, and Edmund O’Brien, but there are a bunch more familiar faces.

This reminded me of a film, that I only saw the ending of, but thought that I would like to watch the whole thing at a later time… as opposed to looking at it at an earlier time. “The List of Adrian Messenger” from 1963 had an all star cast: Kirk Douglas, George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, and cameos by Robert Mitchum, Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra & Tony Curtis. I only caught the ending where several well-known actors peeled off heavy make-up to reveal themselves.

Every once in a while I will find an old movie and as I watch it, more and more actors & actresses that I am familiar with will show up, in really small parts, or even uncredited roles. *Not small films, but with many actors in each: “12 Angry Men,” “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World.”

For several years when my office was on the top floor in the H.L. Cook Building we (several offices along the same hall) had a problem with the acoustics. The ceiling was extremely high, the walls were made of a smooth cubicle material, and the floors were hard and smooth but the ceiling was a standard “drop” ceiling. People on the other side of the building could be carrying on a normal conversation at a communal table, and it sounded like they were just outside my office wall. The sound bounced off all those smooth surfaces. I tried to come up with cheap ways to block the sound.

I once thought you might drop several dowels from the ceiling and hang a towel from the dowel. The thought was that the towel material would muffle the sound. I still think of that problem when I see some kind of hanging item from a commercial drop ceiling. That is why I took pictures of two ceiling hangings.

I included the picture of the blood glucose meter batteries that I bought from Batteries R Us. There is a little icon of a hand with a finger pointing up, which actually means press this with your finger to cause the batteries to pop up for replacement.

I wanted to be reminded that Dollar Tree has the Sharpie Permanent Markers, which I use to label cans and other groceries that need to be dated for use.

I think the picture of the cheap milk was at LIDL’s.

The thick cut pork chops from Lee’s Fresh Market near Benson, NC are always delicious, and almost always below $2 a pound, so two really big chops have been less than $4 repeatedly. If I ever came in and they were $3 a pound, I probably wouldn’t buy them, although that would be a deal. *I do the London Broil for the chops, which is HI heat in the oven for about 20 minutes, and then flip for about 5. They always seem to be cooked through, yet moist.

I diced some fresh okra, and a little onion, and dropped in a few roasted garlic cloves, and sauteed them in a pan with a little olive oil and some bacon grease. I drained the liquid from a can of sliced beets, and added back some Balsamic vinegar, some red wine vinegar, some sweetener, a little salt, and then added a few of the pickled peppadews and the red pearl peppers. To the squash casserole I topped it with some crumbled vegetable chips, which included some yellow squash, zucchini and an okra chip. Another really good meal, and for some reason it even seems that the “Light of God” was shining upon the squash casserole on the plate. *I took two pictures of the same plate, but the highlighted area wasn’t in the other picture.

The day before I drove down to Jacksonville/Hubert/Swansboro I drove over to Benson, to Lee’s Fresh Market, and bought four packages of thick cut pork chops, two to a package. The price was $1.89 a pound, but here’s the clincher. There was a large sticker on each package, “Buy One, Get One Free.” Wow! That’s why I bought four packages. I kept one, and ended up giving three to Ray (one for Mary Ann).

I’m not sure how they make money, because I’ve always seemed to have paid less than $2 per pound for these thick cut pork chops, and they are always delicious. I use the London Broil method, HI heat in the oven for about 20 minutes, turn them over, uncovered for about 5, and they are done. Cooked thru, but moist on the inside, and with a little char on at least one side. I cover the chops with tin foil for the twenty minutes, and oddly, to me, they brown on the down side, next to the bottom of the pan.