The Rewatchables podcast just dropped Searching for Bobby Fischer. 🤗When I moved to New York City I had $7, which I immediately spent at White Castle. Then I spent weeks going from door to door asking for a job, with those roasted peanut carts wringing my goddam guts out block by goddam block... - READ MORE
It's funny how clearly some seemingly small things become big memories just because they happened during big life events; one of the things I remember most about the few months I lived with Rrthur (YES ladies, THAT Rrthur) and Mrs. Rrthur is watching this movie a coupla times and blathering away how I loved it. I'll never forget when I came home one evening after wandering around Manhattan looking for a job & Mrs. Rrthur told she had 2 bits of good news: 1) she'd taken a phone message while I was out that I'd gotten the job I'd been hoping for, and 2) Searching for Bobby Fischer was coming on later at 8pm. 🤗❤️🥲
I love the movie, even though it's a reminder of one of the shittiest things I've ever done to a kid that still haunts me 20+ years later.
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