“No one knows who they were or what they were doing”

Convenience Stories Chapter 14

I went home Friday night and watched This Is Spinal Tap on Amazon Prime. I fell asleep during “Stonehenge,” with its spoken word introduction:

In ancient times

Hundreds of years before the dawn of history

Lived a strange race of people, the Druids

No one knows who they were or what they were doing…

In all likelihood, my boss wouldn’t hear about the incident with the candy bar until Monday.^* It was going to be a long weekend.

(* I’d still like to know how it got there.)

The next morning I watched Zardoz (102 minutes), a weird post-sixties allegory about Sean Connery—looking every bit his 45 years of age—running around topless in thigh-high boots and red Speedos. His macho virility eventually defeats the limp-wristed, sexless techno-hippies, because he used to be James Bond.