Writer's Block: A cinematic extravaganza

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I'm a minor character--or likely the narrator--of any story that includes me. I've probably said enough times, but can afford to say again, that the actor closest to my "type" that I've seen is Glen Beaudin, whose most notorious role in America was Malcolm Frink in Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad. I don't have a romantic interest, I'm afraid. That whole thing of being spied upon and having my teenage years ruined because of it pretty much did in that idea.

They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To

It got broken tonight.

It was like part of the family. It was iconic.

We had it thirty years...bought it soon after the shopping center at US 19 and Spring Hill Blvd. opened.

It was beginning to show its age, so its breaking should not have surprised me--but it did.

It was a Rubbermaid one-pint measuring beaker, slabsided, with scales on both sides, translucent smoky brown, no handle, spout on one side. Bought it at Publix.

Made countless dishes while utilizing it to confirm quantities of ingredients. Its "killer app" was the milk for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, which it excelled at. We must have prepared well over 1000 batches of Macaroni & Cheese using that beaker.

And now it's gone and we'll have to find another somewhere. Life from here on will not be the same.

FP