Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Holy Crap! Burt Reynolds and Paul Newman Were In A Film Together!

2023-Jun-25

Updates for today are a little ugly. Instead of keeping what I got, I just push every change that actually displays the HTML I want to see. If there is extra, well that is a tolerable mitigating fact to the standards here at fredlambuth.com. I learned how to make a Jinja template that can be used without the %extend% magic. Now it’s %include%. All the 3 column rows in the /artist section all include the template that puts a heading break in between the artists. I did not exactly think it through when I applied it to the narrower views of the artist catalog data, especially the ones that are filtered down to one letter. Normally I would just set an if that doesn’t print the heading blocks if there are artists with that letter, but my templates do not get passed a rich enough context to make that distinction. I’ll have to change my Flask views to hand over a filtered list of possible starting letters the template will use.

I’m working my way through the southern oriented Burt Reynolds movies available on the free streaming sites. I cough all of Gator, and most of its prequel: White Lightning. They feature an often shirtless Reynolds swamped together with a very, very southern speaking cast of southern lawyers, southern criminals, and any good ol’ boy profession you could think of. Reynolds in both cases is an anti-hero caught in legal predicaments that could have been avoided if he didn’t have such a strong sense of honor. He drives around in muscle cars making whiskey runs, avoids shotgun fire while driving an airboat. If the movie was good or not I could not tell you. I am biased toward enjoying films that showcase all the things I listed, especially with the king of this genre at the helm. Also seeing Jerry Reed play a greasy Southern gangster that only delivers smooth lines and a preacher’s grin is incredible. He plays a very convincing bad guy.