Jesus X. Christ - I'd take an Ilsa marathon while fighting off Uber grabbing for the remote rather than such scenes with Bates. The horror...

The horror indeed. I had intended to include in my full review that all during the movie, I was sitting in front of a snorter and someone who started coughing everytime they laughed. It made for the singular oddest movie viewing experience in my life. The person sitting next to me had a very annoying muttering sound that she made in leiu of laughter. I seriously wanted to smack someone for this.

It was also my first real flick at RO with the longhairs. That was kinda odd. These are basically the people that used to get freaked out when walking out of the last show before Rocky there. (now, there simply aren't enough Rockyphiles to freak out anyone)

You can tell the transplants from the natives, too ... natives were wearing parkas or about 5 layers of clothing in 40 degree weather, or they were smartly dressed, but bristling at the incessent coldness that was likely to deprive them of any more children if they were of age to have anymore. The transplants were the ones wearing sweaters and wiping the sweat from their brow at this infernal Houston heat.

Same can be said in the reverse. You'll never catch me in a pair of shorts, even in the middle of August.

Reminds me of the week I spent in Scottsdale AZ looking for work: I drove around in suit and tie marveling at how cool it seemed to me, while all the local saps were whining their asses off.

Wimps. Try spending a summer in a city so humid it's like Atlantis, while swatting away swarms of mosquitos attacking with the viciousness of James Carville on a bad day.

True ... on the first day I visited Washington DC, I heard on the radio that the schools were shut down on a day in May when the heat was too unbearable. Turns out the schools weren't designed for the hot days of summer. I learned then and there to take no shame when some freakish transplant to Houston bemoaned how Houstonians don't know what to do in the cold, be it drive, walk, or whatever.

Also met an older woman who was a Philly native and expressed shock at how people could live in homes with air conditioning ... not to mention cars with same. The idea was utterly appalling to her. It's people like these that really should just move to Canada (Inuvik to be precise) and be done with it.

Actually, I do her one better by living in Houston and, for the past 3 years, having no air conditioning in my car. Try driving to a wedding in suit and tie in 89 degree heat with windows up because, of course, it's raining too.

I really am an idiot.

Welcome to the club.

- Fellow idiot with a spotty (at best) AC in truck