SEPTEMBER 3 IS NATIONAL CINEMA DAY

Sometimes a national day can provide free goodies. Well, today is National Cinema Day, and perhaps 30,000 theater screens across the nation are only charging $3 for a seat. Here is the National Cinema Day websight to find your cheap ticket. Read this article indicating that AMC and Regal Cinemas are most likely to participate. AMC and Cinemark also offer food deals, as for example, AMC has a $5 food/popcorn combo.

Unfortunately, Hawaii has no AMCs. We do have Regal, Cinemark and Marcus. Also our Consolidated theaters are participating, all day on this Saturday. Plus, they will sell you popcorn and soda of any size for $3.

Otherwise, for those who like to stay home, here are 28 films you can watch on your Amazon Prime Channel and 44 from Netflix.

I just saw The Lost City and Licorice Pizza, free on Prime. Want a show with stars? TLC has Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum as criss-crossing partners, escaping from Daniel Radcliffe's billionaire villain, with Brad Pitt playing a long savior cameo role, something he must have created in his mind throughout his career, and talked someone into allowing him to play it in TLC. Pitt was probably the highlight of a production that got okay 79/83 ratings from Rotten Tomatoes. I liked the film, although there was a sense that I have seen a half dozen productions similar to it. There will of course be a sequel.

LP got a rave 91 score from Rotten Tomatoes reviewers, but only 65 from the audience. I kind of understand why, as I almost dropped out several times, but did finish it. The two main characters, a super-experienced 15-year old high school male and a high-twenties average female, are ably supported by Sean Penn playing an aging William Holden, the actor, while Bradley Cooper is dominant as Jon Peters, then husband of Barbra Streisand. The setting and accompanying music reflect USA 1973. Maya Rudolf makes an appearance.

I might add a Prime series I have not yet begun to watch, Paper Girls. About four 12-year old newspaper delivery girls who, seeking a stolen walkie-talkie, stumble across a time machine being used by warring teenage mutant aliens in time travel. Is a somewhat comedic coming of age sci-fi adventure. A well-worn theme of the past being changed for the good of the future. Just premiered this summer. Got excellent 90/88 ratings from Rotten Tomatoes. There will be a second season.

I'll close with a documentary from Netflix, Barbra: The Music...The Mem'ries...The Magic!, which got a Rotten Tomatoes audience rating of 100%. Essentially a 2016 concert tour stop in Miami when she was 74. Billboard ranks her as the greatest female artist on their chart. Plus two Academy Awards, five Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globes and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Typhoon Hinnamnor looks to thread the path between South Korea and Japan around midweek, meaning that Cheju Island will be seriously impacted:

Hinnamnor is approaching some warm waters, and could still today or tomorrow strengthen into a Category 5.

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These a...

WHY YOU SHOULD CONVERT TO A JAPANESE HIGH TECH TOILET

Did you know that Oktoberfest in Germany is mostly in September? The very first day of Oktoberfest 2021 was supposed to be today, September 18, extending into October 3. Well, as in 2020, Oktoberfest was cancelled. So why is it called by that month when it is held mostly in September? The first celebration in 1810 was in October. Did you also know that Oktoberfest is held only in Munich? These days seven million drink more than a liter ( about three typical cans ) of beer each, costing around $11. Except for my wife and I when we followed the crowd to board the S-Bahn to the fairgrounds near Old Town. It was drizzling a bit. We bought a large pretzel outside of a typical barn where beer is served. We did not know that you needed to get this inside the hall. So no one came to serve us beer. After a while we decided to have lunch, and the restaurant we settled on only served wine. Thus, we might have been the ...

THE FIRST 84 YEARS OF MY LIFE

The first half of my life was spent preparing myself for my final 42 years. This was a mostly trying and stressful period involving a less than ideal youth, then struggles to get through school, my first few jobs and accompanying life, ending two months later on a Sunday with Part 15E , so it was a spiritual conclusion to my final transition. I never did count the number of actual postings, but I suspect it was around 25 parts. The ending had to do with golf, the disappearance and re-appearance of an 8-iron cover. That was the final clue to whether the beyond after death would be eternal gloom or Heaven. Today, I provide only one transition, but hint about a final one, for this, after all, is Sunday. I'm 84 years old, so let me summarize what happened during the first phase, from 0-42, and follow with the years 42-84. As this is 2024, that key transition year was 1982. I can't seem to find this photo, but as a one-year old baby, I was fat....

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