Thanks for all your comments and suggestions regarding the recent crisis.
They gave me some perspective.
Grant Miller indicated that the cheap moviehouse in his parts actually closed down — that’s a far more heartbreaking result of cinematic hard times than having to reconsider my name, or needing to scrounge the change dish for a few more quarters.
Mr. Miller, if you get the itch for a still-reasonably priced movie, there is room enough for another schmuck at the LaGrange (although I don’t know that I would call you one — honestly, some days I wouldn’t call myself one, feeling closer to being a shlemiel).
Like many of you, I have discovered the wonders of Netflix, but I encourage you to occasionally patronize your local, rundown second-run movie theater and enjoy all the majesty of Hollywood without the wallet-busting ticket prices.
As far as my ongoing feature goes, I think I’m going to stick with my Two Buck Schmuck moniker, and just say $1.50 will be a value-added tax or some such thing. Hey, it’s the Internet. I can do anything!
Boy, my eyes are worse than I thought. I thought you wrote that Grant Miller has a cheap moviehouse in his pants.
Keeping it Two Buck Schmuck should work. Just put an * and a disclaimer at the bottom.
kirby, I wouldn’t put it past him.
jon, yeah, I was thinking asterisks would play some sort of role in the retooled Schmuck.