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If I was homeless and not living in California, Id find myself a way to GET to California. No better place, weather wise, to be homeless than in California. Make the best out of a very dire situation. Need to take a bath? The Pacific is just right there. Salt water is better than no water. Need to go to the bathroom? The Pacific is just right there. Salt water is better than no toilet paper And the benefit with that is that salt water actually cleanses the pee pee and the bum bum just right. No need to worry about inclimate weather in the extreme cold category. The sun during the summer might be unbearable, but there are trees around for shade I presume. During the rainy season, THAT would be not good, and in some parts of LA there are mud slides, so there is that. But places like Mawn-treeawl or Deee-troy-it, rain and mud is infinitely better than frost bitten winds and snow and ice for half a year. I have compiled lots of words to say so little about a very sad reality. Not funny, but I am being serious. Greetings from Montreal, just a few miles away to the North. Cheers to ya with a Long Island iced Tea!

My real random thought: Here's one where you learn something new every day. I learned this yesterday. Long Island, NY contains 7 million residents. Long Island is almost as long as the distance between Los Angeles and San Diego. With 7 million residents, it holds about 1/3 of the population of the entire state of New York. This requires dismantling these numbers a little bit. Brooklyn and Queens are technically on the western edge of Long Island, but are never considered Long Island by people because they are across the river from Manhattan and the Bronx, are boroughs of NYC, and, together, they have 4 million inhabitants. Once you cross the line from Queens into Nassau County, you are into what is meant by Long Island. Nassau and Suffolk Counties are huge, have a lot of breathing room, and, across almost 100 miles, only have a population of 3 million. Capisce? - - - - - A sad homepage statistic read within the last hour or so: California holds about 1/3 of the homeless population in the U.S. - - - - - BTW, greetings from Long Island, NY

This is too funny, never seen a Mach-e Hearst till now and that is crazy looking, reminds me of the Munsters. Photo of ‘menacingly’ unusual car at charging station sparks debate online: ‘I wouldn't be caught dead in that!’ (thecooldown.com)

I've never been to Long Island (except in JFK airport changing planes when crossing the pond), but my maternal grandmother (who was estranged from my mother) lived in Port Washington, NY on Long Island the last 30 or so years of her life (she passed in 1980). And coincidentally, my family farm was outside of Port Washington, Ohio..

The 007 discussion should all go back to "the industry" trying to figure out how Ian Fleming envisioned the James Bond character. There has been way too much variability in who they've cast to play 007. Sean Connery (RIP) seemed to own the franchise and every subsequent actor was compared to him for a long while. To me, Lazenby wasn't that much more wooden than the others that played the part. I once read that he became high maintenance (it went to his head) and they did not cast him again. @Robert Hall mentions some of the interesting aspects of OHMSS, but let's not forget to add Irma Bunt, one of the funniest villain(esse)s in a 007 flick, though she was probably not funny to those in her context. To North American audiences, she was a hoot. I believe this was the first major motion picture she did in English. Roger Moore delivered on the sarcasm and sense of humor, but the movies he was in were hit and miss. Thumbs up to "Live and Let Die,""For Your Eyes Only," and "A View to a Kill" ... and thumbs down to "Moonraker" and "Octopussy." What an introduction in "Live and Let Die," where he goes to New York, hails a cab, and tells the driver, "Uptown, please," to which the driver says, "Uptown? We headed into Harlem, man!" My friends and I knew a lot of lines from these movies. I'm going to say okay to Dalton and Brosnan. I liked the opening chase sequence on the Thames in London in "The World is Not Enough" a lot. I just checked Wiki and Daniel Craig has had the role in the films released between 2006 and 2021. They're getting stupid with the political correctness in who they should be casting for the next movie. K.I.S.S. (keep it simple, stupid) and figure out who Ian Fleming was writing about.

I havent seen the last one just yet. My kids arent into James Bond so Im waiting for a day or night when Im alone to enjoy it. Id rather watch or do something together that all of us could enjoy. James Bond amongst some other movies of the like, Superbowls, Stanley Cup Finals and World Series is more of a solo thing for me. I could see Clive Owen but especially Dougray Scott in that role now that you mentioned it. He was a baddie in one of the Mission Impossibl movies as well! I havent seen James Purefoy. I googled him for his movies and havent seen ANY. Yeah...I wasnt into Knight's Tale back in the day. Although I did see Churchill... Me too. Enjoy them immensley. I havent seen the last Mission Impossible either. For the same reasons as James Bond... LOVE the sarcasm. Pierce Brosnan also had Bimmers as his choice of ride. LOVE the Z8!!! HATED the 7 Series of that era. HATE most generations of 7 Series. Never saw that one. 100% +1

I like the Brosnan movies... I like some of the Craig movies... the last one was weak and way too long, and didn't like the ending...Sceptre seemed a repeat of past formula. Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, and Skyfall are all quite good, IMO. I never really liked Craig in that role, rather taciturn and no wit or bit of humor that past Bond incarnations had. For a modern Bond, I'd rather have seen Clive Owen, maybe James Purefoy or Dougray Scott (a Scotsman like Connery) in the role.. For modern Bond-ish films, I've really liked Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible films (even w/ their BMWs). I liked the first Timothy Dalton Bond movie over the 2nd one. George Lazenby was very wooden as a Bond (his first acting role, he had been a hand model in Australia), but his one outing was a fun movie w/ great Swiss Alps scenery, a gorgeous '69 Cougar convertible and Diana Rigg..I grew up on the Sean Connery and Roger Moore films, so love most of them (though Moonraker was too absurd). As far as CGI, CGI can't make up for a weak story..which seems to happen all too often today. Terminator 2 holds up really well, IMO..it had a good story and great pacing, suspense and cinematography...still remember enjoying in the theatre back in the day. For good recent movies w/ little or no CGI, I watched a drama the other evening I hadn't heard of called 'City of Lies'... Johnny Depp and Laurence Fishburne were excellent, a drama about the aftermath of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur's murders and the LAPD investigation and Death Row records... interesting reality-based story..

The lady in the blue shorts and sports bra is really getting into it.