Sam and I discovered that we love eating at Denny’s. Stop laughing. We had lunch at a Denny’s in Red Oak on Saturday and went for breakfast at Denny’s here in Mesquite on Sunday. Sam seems to be hooked on their build-your-own Grand Slam thing and I love Denny’s impressive senior citizen menu, which is extremely cheap with a lot of very good options including Egg Beaters. And their Diet Cokes are super-fizzy, they’re open 24 HOURS A DAY so you can get pancakes at 3 a.m. and they have lots of polite employees who are always saying thank you.
Big surprise #2.
We watched a semi-goofy Roy Rogers marathon on TCM a couple of days ago and found ourselves turning into huge fans. The films included Don’t Fence Me In, My Pal Trigger, The Golden Stallion and Trigger, Jr. They were all REALLY GOOD, but my favorite was probably My Pal Trigger (1946) because it had one hell of a juicy plot. Roy gets framed for murdering somebody else’s horse and winds up in prison for three years. ROY ROGERS IN PRISON!
Here’s a video clip of a screwy song called “All The Cowhands Want to Marry Harriet” — which was a big hit with Sam — from My Pal Trigger sung by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Be sure to check out Dale’s wild west dominatrix outfit and her hat from hell that looks like a dust mop.
Please allow me to offer the Howdygram’s best wishes for a very happy Independence Day. We’ll probably stay close to home, eat a bunch of leftovers and watch one of our favorite movies on TCM. If you’ve never seen the musical 1776 you don’t know what you’ve been missing. The songs are great, the costumes are great, the story is funny, inspirational, tragic and historically accurate to the smallest detail, and you’ll suddenly find yourself remembering everything you learned about the second Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence in seventh grade except this time it’s actually FUN and set to music. Promise me you’ll watch this movie. Thank you.
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