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Friday Happy Hour Video: We want to sing out, but we’d better wait

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One of my favorite movies is Harold & Maude, and I want to share it with Scout at just the right moment in her intellectual and emotional development. Just the right moment.

There is a Harold & Maude & Scout meter ticking in my head, 24/7. One day, maybe sometime in her 14th year but you never know, the H&M&S meter is going to go off. Probably at an inconvient time—in the middle of the night, or one morning when she's at school. In which case I will pull her out of bed or out of class and we will watch it, two times through.

She knows of this plan, by the way. I've given her this wee taste, and she already thinks Ruth Gordon is the bee's knees (or in Gordon's case, the bee's knee pants). And could Bud Cort be any more adorable?  Oh my gosh I don't think I can wait …

Friday Happy Hour Video (a double feature!)

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Cat Stevens is being eight years old and riding in the front seat of my mom's yellow 1977 CJ-7 Jeep and watching her pound out the beat on the stick shift.

And I used to say that liking Harold & Maude was my litmus test for being a good person. Until I realized that such a statement was antithetical to Maude's spirit. So now I even try to like people who don't like Harold & Maude. They are, after all, my species.