And the word of the day is: FLEXUOUS!Casey would waltz
I edited a flm that was selected a few years ago: "Daughters of the Dust", which I'm sure most people haven't heard of, either!The bad guy in the film was played by a Swiffer?
... and I have only a few things to accomplish today...
Speaking of which, we wasted about 2 hours yesterday seeing Eragon. Spectacular creature design and that's about it. John Malkovich was embarrassingly bad (doing his Chicago patois when everyone else was doing veddy High British), and even Jeremy Irons seemed to want to run screaming from the premises.But did the boys enjoy it?
But did the boys enjoy it?
der Brucer
Fish-Carrying Bald Eagle Passes Over New York's Central Park
Thursday , December 28, 2006
NEW YORK — Pale Male, the famed red-tailed hawk of New York City's Central Park, was perched on the 22nd floor of the swank Beresford apartment building on Wednesday when the national emblem of the United States soared past, carrying a large fish in its talons.
"Pale Male usually sits there sort of relaxed, but he sat up straight when he saw the bald eagle," said Lincoln Karim, the man who made Pale Male and his mate Lola famous with his extensive photographic record of the romantic raptors raising fledglings in their high-rise aerie on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.
Karim, doing his usual morning routine of photographing Pale Male, had the hawk in his viewfinder when the bird suddenly went to attention.
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I also don't care for wind at all.......
Associated Press
Dec. 26, 2006 02:50 PM
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. - Brian Bruggeman caused a stink at the Lincoln County Jail earlier this month and will now have to answer for it in court. Another inmate, Jesse Dorris, alleges that Bruggeman's flatulence, passed in close proximity to Dorris, sparked a Dec. 14 fight between the two at the jail.
Now Bruggeman, 38, faces a Jan. 11 preliminary hearing on the state's complaint of assault by a confined person. It's a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.
Bruggeman is accused of injuring Dorris, his cellmate, when he pushed him into cell bars. Dorris, 26, was not charged.
The two began scuffling, County Attorney Jeff Meyer said Tuesday, because Dorris was fed up with Bruggeman's flatulence.
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who suggested clearing out temporary internet files. That took a long time, but :D solved the problem.
...Now I can interface completely untethered.
Is this a slow news day here at haineshisway.com?
FDA Set to OK Food From Cloned Animals
Thursday
December 28, 2006
WASHINGTON — The government has decided that food from cloned animals is safe to eat and does not require special labeling.
The Food and Drug Administration planned to brief industry groups in advance of an announcement Thursday morning. The FDA indicated it would approve cloned livestock in a scientific journal article published online earlier this month.
Consumer groups say labels are a must, because surveys have shown people to be uncomfortable with the idea of cloned livestock.
However, FDA concluded that cloned animals are "virtually indistinguishable" from conventional livestock and that no identification is needed to judge their safety for the food supply.
"Meat and milk from clones and their progeny is as safe to eat as corresponding products derived from animals produced using contemporary agricultural practices," FDA scientists Larisa Rudenko and John C. Matheson wrote in the Jan. 1 issue of Theriogenology.
Labels should only be used if the health characteristics of a food are significantly altered by how it is produced, said Barb Glenn of the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
"The bottom line is, we don't want to misinform consumers with some sort of implied message of difference," Glenn said. "There is no difference. These foods are as safe as foods from animals that are raised conventionally."
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Charlie was royally p****d off one year when he invested in a longtime friend and tenant's play, which he expected to tank. The friend/tenant? Bernie Slade. The play? Same Time, Next Year.
I very much liked the actor in Little Miss Sunshine, the one who tried to commit suicide - he was really excellent (and didn't whisper).
I haven't shaved since Saturday...
The sky is VERY blue today.
a pair o' docs
candor and ebb.
Edisaurous...Elvis-saurous
Elvis-saurous...Edisaurous
Edi...Elvi
Elvi...Edi
is usually what I see per day at a film festival.
BK - Would candor and ebb by FJL really be a "fred candor" and "fred ebb?"
Ooh, that was so bad I almost didn't hit "post." :)
Music by Brazil's greatest songwriter, Antonio Carlos Jobim, performed by the ethereal trio of Japanese pop star Ryuichi Sakamoto, cellist Jaques [sic] Morelenbaum and his wife, Paula. Their tribute album, "Casa" was recorded in Jobim's home in Rio. A gorgeous disc, as is the follow-up, "A Day in New York". Paula Morelenbaum's singing is so simple, yet so evocative.
JMK - Why oh why would anyone want to lose money on an investment? The tax write-off helps ease the sting of a loss a little, but to prefer a loss to income seems, well, perverse. :)
Someone call Harry Groaner!
If you had candor in the bathroom, then you'd be john candor and fred ebb
If you're on a Windows machine, claearing out temporary internet files is a few click operation (using the Disk CleanUp Utility)
der Brucer
The CPA/tax attorney part of me doesn't buy the second part - sure, he's paying less taxes but he's lost real money, so he's at a net negative from the investment even after the tax break.
I just wish someone had thought to tell me that a year ago and I wouldn't have had to use the clunky work-around all this time.
I guess men aren't the only ones who don't ask directions ::)
der Brucer
Fully prepared for the onslaught of How Dare YE!! hate mail, the Premiere posse has wisely decided to add an equally pithy rebuttal in defense of each movie.
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Premiere's Top 20 Most Overrated Films of All Time
1. American Beauty
2. Chicago
3. Clerks.
4. Fantasia
5. Field of Dreams
6. Chariots of Fire
7. Good Will Hunting
8. Forrest Gump
9. Jules and Jim
10. A Beautiful Mind
11. Monster's Ball
12. Moonstruck
13. Mystic River
14. Nashville
15. The Wizard of Oz
16. An American in Paris
17. Easy Rider
18. The Red Shoes
19. 2001: A Space Odyssey
20. Gone with the Wind
This is just typical of how things (don't) happen around here.
JMK - I totally get the first part about wanting to support risky work.
The CPA/tax attorney part of me doesn't buy the second part - sure, he's paying less taxes but he's lost real money, so he's at a net negative from the investment even after the tax break.
Sounds like he really wanted to help out by financing risky investments. It really cost him money, so his intentions sound 100% benevolent. The second part sounds like soemthing he'd say because of his probably being a very kind, humble person.
I edited a flm that was selected a few years ago: "Daughters of the Dust", which I'm sure most people haven't heard of, either!
..you need to put a disclamer ...
Elmore, you need to put a disclamer in the RE: line of your e-mails....remember I look at my AOL emails at work sometimes! :o
A co-worker just shared some of her Christmas chocolate with me. It's from
Batdorf & Bronson Coffee Roasters (http://www.batdorf.com)
which appears to be in DR George's town.
They ARE from Olympia! I don't drink coffee, but everyone who drinks theirs says that they're better than Starbucks. AND the Washington Center for the Performing Arts only serves their coffee. :)
Based on my results in their online Coffee Personality analysis, I'll have the Guatemala Antigua Finca El Valle, please! It also said I'm "sophistication personified," which says a lot about the validity of such instruments ::)
Unusual and unabashed describes your taste in flavors (and probably your clothes, too!). If other people think it's too strong or too stinky then you're sure to love it.
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Note to BK:
Mr Patrice Leconte's new movie MON MEILLEUR AMI is VERY moving! OK, the direction is nothing to write home about; it seems it was filmed with TV in mind like so many movies today. Close ups after close ups!
But the story treatment is beguiling and the main actors are faboo!
Danie Auteuil is one of "our" best French actors, and Dany Boon, a French Belgian stand up comic turned actor is very good here too!
http://www.monmeilleurami-lefilm.com/
I will have to figure out which DVD to watch this evening, but for now I'm watching a lovely little French film called Un Coeur de Hiver, from director Claude Sautet (a wonderful director).
I love that movie! I remember seeing it at a long-gone art house here in Georgetown when it first came out. -And, if I'm remembering correctly, the aforementioned Daniel Auteuil is one of the stars. -With Isabelle Huppert? And the performances of the Ravel chamber works are pretty good too.
Tomorrow I'm lunching at Musso and Frank.
Mr. Sautet has made many marvelous films - I especially like Vincent, Francois, Paul et let autres... Most, if not all of his films have scores by Philippe Sarde.
Yes, it's Mr. Auteuil, who is wonderful. Not Isabelle though - Emmanuel Beart.
A pair o'ducs is what I like to have served on a brisk wintery evening - with a Bing Cheery glaze, please.Subtle hinting. ::)
der Brucer
...Have shaved...So much for the beard.
The Hugo's mac and cheese is one of those nouveau affairs - corkscrew pasta, multiple cheeses - it's excellent, but I wish they wouldn't call it mac and cheese. I use to love Koo Koo Roo's mac and cheese, but Koo Koo Roo is completely worthless now and is a shoddy joke.Timing strikes again. I was reading Bill Buford's Heat during my break at work, and came across the following passage:
...Until the second half of the twentieth century, "pasta" wasn't really a kitchen word (you almost never see it in the old cookbooks) but an inventory word, meaning a food, any food, savory or sweet, made with dough....Instead of dried pasta, you had macaroni. That had been the generic word people used for five centuries or so, meaning not just the tubular kind but all kinds, originating in Sicily and then spreading to Sardinia and Naples and shipped through Genoa to the principal ports of Europe. Thomas Jefferson ate it in France and was so taken with it that he dispatched trunkloads home, becoming the first person to introduce dried pasta to the United States.That being the case, the use of corkscrew pasta - rotelli - makes perfectly good sense, as it has all those nooks for the cheesey sauce to cling to. That's also why Kraft uses shells for some of their more upscale pasta and cheese mixes - they hold onto the sauce better. And the corkscrews and shells are, indeed, "mac".
elmore -- Whenever you show up, just know that the packages arrived today, and I, of course, laughed when I saw the two CD's you had sent. So, a million thanks to you sir!
I have just plugged in and am now using a dandy little Christmas gift from my sister and brother-in-law--a wireless optical mouse for my laptop. My previous mouse was also an optical one, but the cord was incredibly short and, considering that the USB ports are on the left hand side and I'm a righty, it made for rather cumbersome use. Now I can interface completely untethered.
Ain't technology grand?
George, I am not a fan of Starbucks....
I prefer a local one in Fargo or Gloria Jeans. To me Starbucks is expensive and tastes burnt to me.
George, I am not a fan of Starbucks....
tastes burnt to me.
"Come to me
Burnt to me
Kiss me good day!"
Just a joke! ;)
DR Elmore's favourite ALW song!
Sorry for the delay, but I assume you'd want your friends to have the best possible copy.
I like coffee way too well. I also like tea
Did you want a +ve or -ve response DtM?
Does it play the Internationale?
But that's from Brigadoon
I am ever ready for both, DR Tomovoz.;)
Music of the night!
Do you like the java jive?
Yes, and the Manhattan Transfer version, like DR George!
Are you looking for a transfer to Manhattan Dtm or was it an ink spot I noticed?
I use to love Koo Koo Roo's mac and cheese, but Koo Koo Roo is completely worthless now and is a shoddy joke.
We have a new cat.
the idiots at the counter were, as always, completely unprepared for their visit
We have a new cat.
Is that the Alfred Drake musical DtM?
Thank you DR JRand.
Pleased that the cat is black. Red would have been unseemly in a Baz Luhman sort of way.
Merlin Rouge: The once and future Queen.
We have a new cat.
That was fast! What is his/her name?
That was fast! What is his/her name?
Note to self---read all the way to the end before posting!
My ancient cat was named Arthur (The Once and Future Cat).
Scarlet Street is basically morte. There may be another issue or two at some point down the line, but because of Richard Valley's illnesses, he's basically done with it, I think. Never say never, of course, and people do have a way of changing their minds.
...never mind...
Do you like the java jive?
ipods - weren't they a feature of "Cocoon"?
I was tempted to post something about flying dutchmen but taste won through.
DR DAKOTA CELT - I bet you can reach 5500 before 2007!
That is my goal good sir,,
congrats on the new kitty
LOL DR TOMovOZ!A good name for black kitty!!
Pictures will be forthcoming next week.
Suffice it to say that his name is Merlin - he is BLACK and he thinks he owns the World of Wisdom.
I'm now off to usher for Harlequin Productions' The Twelfth Night of Stardust (http://www.harlequinproductions.org/seasonpages/07/stardustnight.html). The Stardust shows (newly written every year) have been Harlequin's Christmas show for the past 12 years or so. They're all set in the fictitious Stardust Club in the 1940s New York City. I was in five of the first seven. This year (looking at the pictures on-line) every single performer has a little microphone that snakes from their ear to their mouth. :P They've ALWAYS just used the live stand mics and now they're doing this. :P AND I don't think any of the actors have ever been in a Stardust show before...at least I don't recognize any of the actors. I did miss last year's show, but that was the only one that I haven't seen. Until later! :-\
There are people that don't?
Can you imagine us posting to HHW with one of these in our homes? :o
I haven't shaved since Saturday - perhaps I'll grow a beard.
I thought Bonzo was a chimp?
Something to do with Joe Cairo I think.
- I am sure he would make a copy for you....
I don't have an IPOD or other portable music device. I am stuck in the early part of the 21st century, I guess.
..or listen to the radio...
...Mr. Sautet's Cesar ...
They were going to use the music from Rusalka for the Alfred Drake movie but decided against a Water Polo movie. Maybe that's too obscure. (Elmore!)
I had an epiphany at dinner, which we shared with our delightful Dear friends Glenn Slater and his wife Wendy Wilf Slater. A sub-thread on All that Chat which I started was called "eminently trivial" by the respected Mr. Alan Scott Gomberg. The epiphany was the moment I realized and blurted out:
"Oh my god, I've been called trivial on All That Chat." :)
At that moment, a loud laugh emanated from the apartment downstairs, probably not in response to what i had announced, but the timing was amazing.
I had an epiphany at dinner...
Respected by WHOM?
And may I just say that for the last week or so that LA drivers, frequently the most insane and inept anywhere, have completely lost it and should not be allowed in their vehicles.....
Water wasters face tough bans
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SERIAL water wasters will not be able to shower under stage 3 restrictions. Under a new three-strike rule, repeat offenders will have their water turned down to a trickle - just enough to dampen a washcloth.
And may I just say that for the last week or so that LA drivers, frequently the most insane and inept anywhere, have completely lost it and should not be allowed in their vehicles. If I weren't a great driver, completely defensive, I would have been creamed by idiots who have no concept of where they're going, how they're supposed to get there, what traffic laws are in effect - they are the most selfish, stupid, inane dweebs who ever walked the face of the earth and they are potential killers because they simply do not care about others or safety. Normally, the excuse is that they're on their cell phones, which is sometimes the case, but in the last week it hasn't even been that a lot of the time - it's just insanity running (or driving) rampant. I've had idiots in the extreme right hand lane figure out they needed to turn left in ten feet and just veer across all lanes of traffic, cutting me and everyone else off and causing us to slam on our breaks - they're not even aware, these idiots, and they think it's their right to do what they do. I've had people driving five miles an hour in a thirty-five mile an hour zone. I've had people driving in two lanes at the same time. I've had people sit as the left turn arrow lights - just sit until it is too late to go, and THEN they go, almost killing people who now have a green light, and precluding the others in the left turn lane from actually being able to turn left. They should be taken out and hung.
We do have a water shortage though. I suspect it is something do with a lack of rain! (just a theory I have).
I will say, however, that overall the picture was not the gasp inducing quality of THE SEARCHERS Blu-ray disc I viewed yesterday.
...as it came with the player.
Have you no Men of God to blame it on the homosexuals like we do?The Rev Fred Nile does not make his annual apearance until just before Sydney's Mardi Gras.
der Brucer
The Rev Fred Nile does not make his annual apearance until just before Sydney's Mardi Gras.
TORONTO — A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, scientists said.
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Within days, the floating ice shelf had drifted a few miles offshore. It traveled west for 31 miles until it finally froze into the sea ice in the early winter.
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The spring thaw may bring another concern as the warming temperatures could release the ice shelf from its Arctic grip. Prevailing winds could then send the ice island southwards, deep into the Beaufort Sea.
"Over the next few years this ice island could drift into populated shipping routes," Weir said. "There's significant oil and gas development in this region as well, so we'll have to keep monitoring its location over the next few years."
And one for Mardi (Gras)
BK will be two-two-two-two-two soon.
OOOHH!! OHHH!!! I get it! I get it!!!!
Will I make it to 4444 before Bk makes it to 22222?
LIFE AFTER TOMORROW was successfully transferred to DVD-R tonight and will be mailed tomorrow
I don't! I don't!!!
Dvorak's opera Rusalka is set underwater.
Dvorak's opera Rusalka is set underwater.
and go for the wholesome SON OF RUSTY. Many lessons were learned. I will never gossip again! :-)
Nor date a German Shepherd ::)
The Adventures of Marco Polo had adaptions of music by Rimsky-Korsakov, much as Kismet used Borodin.
Dvorak's opera Rusalka is set underwater.
Nor be a mysterious loner who entertains young boys at his farm.
*Barb* dates Rusty in the movie---no suprise that they end up with a litter of puppies in the last scene. And they weren't even married! What lesson does this teach our impressionable yout?
*Barb* dates Rusty in the movie---no suprise that they end up with a litter of puppies in the last scene. And they weren't even married! What lesson does this teach our impressionable yout?
Surely Fred has a litter joke to share...
der Brucer
Fred's so cheap he would not litter cigarette!
He does not have an ounce of a litter!
... That "undelete" feature sure does come in handy!
Don't you wish you had a "REDO" feature for your keyboards?
der Brucer
Can't he "Litter and Be Gay"
der Brucer
Can't he "Litter and Be Gay"
I'm going to watch a documentary about small Mongolian horses. That should put me to sleep!
Litter herbs
I'm going to watch a documentary about small Mongolian horses. That should put me to sleep!
Four-four-four-four - Wsan't that the sound made by Charlie Brown's teacher in the Penaiuts TV cartoons?
Four-four-four-four - Wsan't that the sound made by Charlie Brown's teacher in the Penaiuts TV cartoons?
...I watched a wonderfully fun movie called STOMP! SHOUT! SCREAM! ...
I always thought it was "WA wa Wa WA"
I think we were closed for Regan...