Haines His Way

And finally... Someone not afraid to tell the truth!!  

Founding Fictions
Have you heard the one about Thomas Jefferson?
By Joel Achenbach

Sunday, May 15, 2005; Page W10

Book talk at Ladies Auxiliary Historical Society of Pokeweed County (transcript):

Thank you, Betty--Bobbi, excuse me--for that very generous introduction. It's a great honor to be here. I had a lovely drive out here and got to see so many trees and fields and, of course, your really remarkable strip mine. Now that is what I call a hole! In the best sense of the word. In any case, I'm thrilled to be here and to have this opportunity to speak to the four of you.

Now, you may ask, why did I title my book Unfounded Courage? Because it was time for the American people to read the unvarnished, unromanticized, unsubstantiated story of the men who established this nation, a tale that reveals not only their quirks, eccentricities and, dare one say, perversions, but also echoes the titles of books that have sold millions of copies already.

Countless biographies of the Founders are already out there, telling you about Washington's bravery, Jefferson's genius, Franklin's inventiveness and so on. But I can say with confidence that mine is the only book in which Jefferson is eaten by a shark.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/10/AR2005051001260.html

Here is a Sunday topic:

What are your 3 top favorite movies studios. The studios that made the films you are most fond of, that give you that warm, comfy feeling.

Falcon
Catalina
All Worlds

 

 

 

 

FUEL OIL HUNK ALERT!

I haven't caught up on yesterday's posts, nor yet read today's, but I wanted to alert all and sun-dried to the fact that our fuel oil man (owns his own company, actually) will finally be on Extreme Makeover:  Home Edition tonight on ABC.

Newsday has an article on it with photos and video, but I didn't catch Kenny in any of them.  I hope we get to see Ty hanging off his machine, because they say there were over 400 paid and volunteer workers.

Here is Kenny looking somewhat less passionate.

-That was especially for you DR TCB... and DR elmore... and DR td...  etc., etc., etc...


And DR Michael Shayne - Just in case... I don't think we need to see any box covers posted from the companies listed above.  

Of course you don't think so, Jose, becasue you probably have all the covers in your collection (along with the films)!  However, I do appreciate the thought.

I'm up, I'm up.  I went back to bed at eight and fell right asleep.

The sparkling prizes will go out upon my return from New York.   I'm still gathering them.

Speaking of fuel oil hunks, here's another thing that the hip young fundraiser told me about current trends.  His most successful fundraiser has been auctioning off young hunk firemen.  Apparently, the bidding gets quite fierce because apparently young girls, whether they have boyfriends or husbands, throw aside their morals and inhibitions when it comes to these young hunky firemen, who, the young hip fundraiser tells me, "put out" on the dates with the winners.  Firemen have become the new sex symbol to young women, and they crave them and go after them with a fervor.  It's just another reason to know that the trendy young people continue to pust the world to new lows.

 Firemen have become the new sex symbol to young women, and they crave them and go after them with a fervor.  

What has taken young women so long to realize! I think a few DRs here would agree that firemen have been sex symbols for a long, long time! LOL!

Speaking of fuel oil hunks, here's another thing that the hip young fundraiser told me about current trends.  His most successful fundraiser has been auctioning off young hunk firemen.  Apparently, the bidding gets quite fierce because apparently young girls, whether they have boyfriends or husbands, throw aside their morals and inhibitions when it comes to these young hunky firemen, who, the young hip fundraiser tells me, "put out" on the dates with the winners.  Firemen have become the new sex symbol to young women, and they crave them and go after them with a fervor.  It's just another reason to know that the trendy young people continue to pust the world to new lows.

Well, Bachelor Auctions - Firemen, Businessmen, Baseball Players, Policemen, etc... - have been around for a while.  As for Firemen, in particular, their popularity re-peaked after 9/11 - even the NYFD put out their own calendar - and still do.  And remember that semi-scandalous "Sex & The City" episode?

Now, as for the men "putting out".... Hmmm...  Well, that's a totally different matter.  Between two consenting adults.

DR JoseP, I don't know my Bollywood studios enough yet to find out favorites...except for Wadia Pictures which produced wonderful Arabian Nights/Mythological/fantasy films in the 50s and 60s...I love all of there films!

Rodzinsky I shall have to look into the McMenamin brothers and their renovations.   Does your magazine have a website?

Speaking of picking a movie off the shelf, when I finished with TWISTER this afternoon, I took HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS off the shelf. I've seen it probably ten times, but wanted to see it on the new player.

One thing I've learned is that the newer the transfer, the better it looks on this new player. It really accentuates the defects on older transfers and they don't look as good. TWISTER would probably look much better on one of my older players.

And the anticipation mounts....

Well...AIP to be sure....Allied Artists, I think was more of a releasing organization than a production facility....though I think Monogram owned it and released its more "prestige" films through that arm....hmmmmmmm....

Paramount and RKO....and add a vote for Republic for Vera's skating pictures and musicals and westerns.

...Oh, that's right, I was doing laundry this afternoon....

Oops..



And I also need to get some dinner/late lunch...

Laters...

Pacific Northwesterners-
Just read a fascinating article in this magazine we get called "Ready Made". Great mag, by the way. But the article was about the McMenamin brothers, who have made it their life's goal to restore old theatres around Portland, such as the Bagdad. They also took a place called the Franklin School and turned it into a neat hotel. They sound like pretty cool guys. They apparently own 52 lovingly restored establishments in Oregon and Washington.

Haven't seen any of their theaters and such, but have been to a couple McMenamin's restaurants around Portland.  Pretty good food and they brew some tasty beers, too.