Well, dear readers, I must write zippy notes today because I must deal with silly computer issues right now. Have you ever dealt with silly computer issues? They are silly, in my book (Chapter Twelve – Computer Issues Are Silly). Apparently Windows XP has so many weirdnesses and glitches that you must pamper it and massage it and be very nice to it or it does things that are silly. Thus, I am forced to write zippy notes. However, I’m sure there are a few of you who missed the weekend notes, so there is plenty to read because I did tend to babble on over the weekend. So, merely click on the Unseemly Archive Button and you will be whisked away to the land of babble on, or as we like to think of it, the Weekend Babylon.
My goodness, these notes are just zipping along aren’t they? I’m breathless just thinking about it.
Last night I watched the motion picture entitled Them! First we had killer bees in The Swarm, then I watched locusts in The Exorcist II: The Heretic, and last night we had the giant ants running amok. The difference is that Them! is a classic, and a beautifully made sci-fi film. The DVD is spectacular-looking and it even includes the red-lettered main title (the film is in black-and-white). You simply must have all three movies so you can have one giant insect marathon.
It’s a good think I am writing zippy notes today because I don’t have anything to write about. I exhausted myself on the weekend. I used up all my current stories. And now, all I can do is write zippy notes because of silly computer issues. These silly computer issues get me agitated and put me in a foul mood. Perhaps I’ll eat some chicken later so that I can also be in a fowl mood. Zip, zip, zip. Why, I feel twitchy and bitchy and manic. But alive, but alive, but alive. Hold your applause, dear readers.
Well, perhaps we should all click on the Unseemly Button below because we must keep zipping because it is unseemly to be unzipped
Have I mentioned that I feel twitchy and bitchy and manic – but alive? Have I mentioned that I must write zippy notes because of silly computer issues? If not, I do and I must.
We have not had any completely correct trivia guesses, so keep submitting your answers (you can resubmit if you think you’ve gotten the rest right) – only one person, in fact, has gotten everything but one thing right. You have until midnight this evening.
We are going to try to have a brand spanking new Unseemly Interview up this Friday, with the legendary Mr. Buddy Bregman. The problem is Mr. Buddy Bregman has given me thirty-seven pages worth of material. I am trying to organize and get it formatted, but if we don’t make it then it will go up the week after. For those who don’t know, Mr. Buddy Bregman produced, arranged, orchestrated and conducted Miss Ella Fitzgerald’s first two albums for Verve, he orchestrated the film of The Pajama Game, he did albums with Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and many other legends, his uncle was Jule Styne and his stories are wonderful (and long). I will probably end up running it in two parts, because I don’t want to cut it down so much that we miss any wonderful stories. In the meantime, if you have been errant and truant and haven’t read Miss Alison Fraser’s Unseemly Interview, do so immediately.
Well, dear readers, I must zip along, in fact I must zip these notes closed because I must deal with silly computer issues right now, so that I can then do actual work on my computer. Then I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must get in my automobile and drive hither and thither and even yon, I must make telephone calls to people in other states, including the computer people who will be in the state of shock when I get through with them. Today’s topic of discussion: When I was a wee sprig of a twig of a sprout of a tad of a youth, I loved “Road Show” movies, those movies that were deemed important enough to have reserved seats. These movies were usually (but not always) presented in some kind of 70mm (well, 65mm really) widescreen process, with six channel stereophonic sound and they were events. What are your favorite road show experiences (you must have seen the original road show engagement, or at least a revival in 70mm)? I’ll start: So many, because I loved those almost more than anything – certainly Seven Wonders of the World in Cinerama, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Around the World in Eighty Days, Ben-Hur, King of Kings, Lawrence of Arabia, and many more. Your turn.