Fricking Amazing Shit. I’m blown away by Busby Berkeley.

The acting was less than, the script slow at times, with some excellent work from veteran actors; the lead ingenue failed miserably — No Ginger, No Snap. Dick Powell does his job, but doesn’t seem happy. Hugh Herbert funny, neurotic, a little frightening, I don’t know why.

But this piece of the film. My god. It started and I thought, ‘here we go go, another big dance piece’ — and it proceeded to knock my socks off. Holy Cow. This will live forever.

The last Snicker Doodles have emerged; time to cut the brownies, assemble the magic boxes, and wash a billion things.

Cookie Weekend.

Perhaps I shall take a break.

I went outside with the trash — it’s beautiful out there, a glowing fog, and I am the only person alive.

Wait, I hear a car.

Someone else is alive.

Good Night. Brownies tomorrow, and then Snicker Doodles by the hundreds.

Life is like a cookie.

Ha! Ya burnt!

Here it comes, full force. Wish.

Ding.

The Snicker Doodle dough is refrigerating overnight. It’s the big secret. An hour or two won’t do.

I’m thinking about a specific thing, something plaguing me for days.

The Pterosaur.

After insects, the next earliest appearance of flight was an animal closely related to the dinosaurs called the pterosaur. The pterosaur and pterodactyl are often confused, but the pterodactyl is a particular type of pterosaur that evolved later and was distinguished by its short tail. The first pterosaurs evolved during the Late Triassic Period about 225 million years ago. Though other species of lizards or dinosaurs may have been able to glide, the pterosaur is believed to be the first vertebrate animal to achieve sustained flight with flapping wings. New species of pterosaurs continued to evolve through the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods, but the creature disappeared 65 million years ago during the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

The first pterosaur to sustain flight. Think about that creature for a moment. A true air-swimmer, leaving the earth by pushing air down — what a feeling that must have been. There must have been such a feeling of freedom, of power — maybe even the weight of the future bearing down on the moment. Probably took the creature’s entire life to achieve it.

And once it succeeded — everyone had to upgrade.

Ding.