Saturday, January 26, 2013

Deliverance

We've been in Burt Reynolds territory for the past two days. Burt's from here. Played and starred on the Palm Beach High School football team, then went on to play for Florida State.

Burt's in the news down here. In ICU at a local hospital. Bad bout of the flu. Burt's 76.

76?

Yeah. 76. The flu hits the elderly hard.

Burt Reynolds elderly?

Yeah. Remember when we guys all wanted to be where Burt Reynolds was? In the blockbuster movies like " Deliverance. " Regular guest on the Tonight Show.

Now he's in the ICU at a hospital near here.

I'm here. A steak is cooking on the grill. Good music is playing on the stereo. The temperature is 73 degrees. Burt Reynolds?

ICU.

Count your blessings you folks who tend to envy and wish you were in someone else's flip flops.

Burt Reynolds. Tonight, I'd rather be me. You?

1 comment:

Terrence said...

I read the news today. Oh boy. Now Tommy Lee Jones is real sick with the flu. Who's the next tough guy to come down with this virus? Clint? What kind of strain is this?

I'll leave it to you to make up the jokes...