Connecticut & Coddiwomples Part II
Adventures are not ALWAYS about stealing antiquities, cracking whips, and car chases (the really good ones are though!). Sometimes, it’s just a coddiwomple through the winding back roads of Connecticut to find the right creek to sit by or the hidden gem to score some ice cream. Nin and Gizmo and I rode through the metropolis known as Willimantic, Connecticut (a sub-section of Windham, Connecticut if that helps). After a quick stop at the Trolley Pub, we meandered to a place called Oliver’s for a bite and some ice cream. Gizmo even got a puppy-cup. He hasn’t mastered the spoon yet, but has clean-up down to a science.
Cinematic Craziness
Ezra Miller in 2019. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty
While here, we made time for a date night. Earlier in the day, I slipped off to see the movie, The Flash. This movie requires a bit of suspension of disbelief. Not because it is a superhero movie, but for nearly 2 hours you have to NOT believe that Ezra Miller (the title star) is not bat-shit crazy. Let me give just a FEW of the highlights (setting aside personal pronouns ‘they/them’) :
- June 2011: Miller is charged with marijuana possession
- April 2020: Miller chokes a woman outside a bar
- January 2022: Miller delivers a cryptic message to the Ku Klux Klan
- March 2022: Miller is charged with disorderly conduct & harassment (“Miller began yelling obscenities and at one point grabbed the microphone from a 23-year-old woman singing karaoke and later lunged at a 32-year-old man playing darts. The bar owner asked Miller to calm down several times.” The judge also dismissed two additional counts against Miller “with prejudice,” including a harassment charge from the same incident and a separate traffic-obstruction-related complaint. )
- April 2022: Miller is arrested on a second-degree assault charge (“became irate after being asked to leave & reportedly threw a chair, striking a 26-year-old female on the forehead”)
- June 2022: Miller is accused of “manipulating and controlling” a 12-year-old-girl
- June 2022: Another parent comes forward with allegations against Miller – “menaced their family one evening in their downstairs neighbor’s home and acted inappropriately toward… their [yet a different 12-year-old] daughter. “
- August 2022: Ezra Miller is accused of burglarizing a home in Vermont, where they allegedly stole “several bottles of alcohol,”
- August 2022: Vermont State Police try to serve an emergency care order for 3 kids to a mother staying at Ezra Miller’s home ( Miller was housing a 25-year-old woman and her three kids,who range in age from 1 to 5 years old)
- August 2022: Ezra Miller reveals they’re (he is) seeking treatment for “complex mental health issues” – AFTER rumors abound that Warner Brothers are thinking about replacing him as the Flash.
- Don’t get me started about the gun hoarding and cult creations.
Do some Google searches. This person does not have their oars in the water. And yet… despite all that, the Flash movie did not suck. To be honest, I would NOT have gone to see it had Michael Keaton not reprised his role as Batman. WB did a good job of integrating past movies and iterations of DC’s work into the movie even if they did jump on the “multiverse” bandwagon that Marvel commonly uses to explain all the variations in characters over the last 6o years. If you can suspend your disbelief about Ezra Miller for 2 hours, I would suggest going to see it. If you can’t, that just means you are sane.
Date Night
Nin met me at the same theater to see Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Not bad. Again, that whole suspension of disbelief thing comes into play. Harrison is in his 70’s. He is not the same adventuresome archeologist that fights on moving tanks and swims aboard diving submarines. The movie did a good job of recognizing this, but it just wasn’t the same. It did a decent job of touching on the earlier movies, and they did an awesome job of de-aging him for some sequences, but… you know…
We had dinner afterward at the Willimantic Brewery and then rode the bikes back to the campground. Just like Harrison, the older I get, the less I tend to jump onto moving tanks!
DATE: June 14 – July 14, 2023 1 MONTH
RV PARK: Nickerson RV Park
THOUSAND TRAILS: N $800/mon back-in w/overflow storage on the hill
ADVENTURES: Mystic, Foxwoods
CITY: Chaplin, CT
RETURN: maybe, green, grassy, nice people, campfires, great cycle roads, casinos
NOTE: Replaced RV house batteries, replaced headlight fairings on Can-Am
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