Because although I absolutely loved the book as a teenager and must have read it 5 times, I never saw the movie.

My advice anyway

We’s Gonna have to disagree baby. Not as good as the book but close enough. One of my very favorite flicks. What a gut punch man...

I had a friend who used to say that and I think that’s what it’s in reference to.

That music. Oh my God. It was like a middle aged romantic comedy.

I think this was the scene I almost did a spit take

We gonna have to agree to disagree ‘pants. Just do one thing for me, yeah? Stay Gold!

I’m raising a shot to you just for getting my blood up over something ridiculous....


You know I loves you baby!

Swayze, Cruise, Estevez, Sheen, DiMacciio, C. Thomas Howell...Great fucking film! Oh and the girl of my teenage dreams, Diane Lane! Great great flick. As good as the book? Course not, still totally worth seeing.

So how’s you been?

That sure is an all star cast....

We’re OK here I guess ... hope you are as well ...

Such crazy and awful times these are.

What can you do. I’m looking for silver in the clouds ya know. Me n the misses is hangin out with the fur family. All is good!

Vet put him on pheno barbital. He’s kinda Tommy Chog’d out. Not cool. We’re gonna change him over to another drug. I don’t like how the pheno is affecting him. Vet told me today that I need to be open to the fact that the severity of his last few siezures, he may have some damage that isn’t attributed to the pheno...

Mr. O had a dog years ago, same thing happened. Black Lab. It’s tough... so hard to see them acting peculiar. Seizures are so scary, our last dog had them, too. 🙁

On the plus side little Steviewonder is becoming daddy’s boy. He’s kinda pissing off Mrs. Glam🤣

As my junior high girlfriends would say...Rohr! LoL!

crushed on musicians more so than actors back in those days....

I always knowed you was damaged!



Much love my musical sistah!

I saw it inside a movie theater as a kid, a few years after an elementary school teacher had made it assigned reading.

Liked the book at the time, disappointed by the movie.

I can still remember the first sentence of the book ... “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie theatre, I had two things on my mind .... Paul Newman and a ride home.” At least I think that’s pretty close. 🙂

Mostly left with emotional memories of it after many years.

Read it in 5th grade*, I think.

The teacher read some of it aloud during class as we followed along with our own copies, then assigned other parts at home.

Seemed like an “edgy” story at that age, with the gangs and characters dying, and everyone seemed to like it.

The movie might’ve help ruin my earlier, fonder memories of it. Lol.

* 4th grade... a teacher named Mrs. Healey.