"Titanic" and Old and New

Looking back at the Hollywood figures I’ve mentioned, I remembered something Tweet recently said to me. Tweet believes that the "Titanic" soundtrack will never disappear, especially now that its director has made another hit, "Avatar." I think Tweet is right. I just heard it again at a restaurant.


BIA to waiter: “Please this movie is over ten years old. Surely there is another song you can play!”


Waiter: “Yes, ma’am but this very beautiful.”


Why do old songs never seem to disappear here, but old buildings do?

And Now Hulk Hogan is Here!

R, one of Tweet's grad school friends visited us some time back. R is from the Upper Peninsula. In case you don’t know much about the Upper Peninsula, I recommend you search Wikipedia. I can’t really provide too much detail as I have been to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan only once in my life . . . to visit Tweet’s friend, R. That's when I learned about the Yoopers – they are usually Finnish in origin, very fair and very blonde. As an aside, that area of the country has the best blueberries IMHO.


R grew a moustache (naturally blonde) for his trip out to the Arab world to see us. I guess he heard that facial hair would help him fit in better and so he grew his moustache long. R liked to go out and about by himself especially in the early morning hours. The kids in the neighborhood on their way to school would see him trying local warm breakfast foods and started calling out after him, “Huk, Huk, Huk.”


The kids thought he was Hulk Hogan. I can’t believe we got Rambo and Hulk together in one place!

Rambo Is Here Too!

I’ve not thought of Rambo in years, when I was a lot younger. After all, hasn’t it been like twenty years or more since that movie was a hit? Well my husband and I were walking on a narrow Arab street, and some shabab called out after my husband, “Rambo mogood [is here].”

BIA [thinking to herself]: “Yo, dudes, Rambo isn’t, really isn't, anymore.”

I wonder why Rambo is still a big deal in the Arab world! Any ideas?