Detroit Pride

I remember when I was little growing up in a suburb of Detroit.  I must have been around 10 when we first started getting pizza on Friday nights.  It was a big thing, as I believe take out pizza was a new idea.  We loved it.

Little Caesers Pizza Pizza.  Two pizzas in one package.  We’d get pepperoni and cheese.

Anyway, in the years since then, I’ve seen Little Caesers around the country, every now and then.  In fact, here in Charleston, there is a Little Caesers not half a mile from where I live.

Of course, my memory is foggy and honestly I don’t eat Little Caesers now, but I’m sure I’ve said to more than one person, I think Little Caesers started in Detroit.  I am pretty sure it was the Red Wings Owner who started it.

Anyhow, it is and it was.  Mitch Ilitch, Red Wings Owner, founder of Little Caesers Pizza.

Well, sadly, he died recently and I read his obit just by a matter of happenstance, which brings me to why I am posting this today.

Evidently, Rosa Parks moved to Detroit after she famously refused to get up out of her seat on a bus in Alabama in 1955.  Well, so I read, in 1994 she was assaulted and robbed in her Detroit home.

Mr. Ilitch (Little Caeser's founder) read an account of the attack in the newspaper.  Then he got together with some of his friends and moved Ms. Parks to a safer home, in a safer neighborhood.  Ms.  Parks was 81 at the time.

Mr. Ilitch then paid her rent until she died in 2005. 😊

What a nice thing to do!!   I hope he has a nice seat in heaven; I am pretty sure he does.

The Accountant - A Movie Review

I can’t help but indulge in half time snacks, even if I have no intention of watching the Super Bowl.  It’s irresistible finger food.

So, yesterday, I made loaded sweet potato skins and at six o’clock, right when I heard kick off was, I rented The Accountant, that new movie with Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick.

This movie left me with a very good impression.  I think the purpose of art is to open our hearts and uplift our own idea of who we are or why we are or how we are or even what is.

And this movie, although in tiny pieces I could never imagine that it would add up to an experience that uplifted me, made me feel really good.  I liked Ben Affleck too, and that made me feel good. 

All I can say is that in the end, I said, “wow, they pulled that movie off.”  I think I was surprised.