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[FJL]

And one for Yeller

[FJL]

Or in honor of all the dogs...

One for Collar

[FJL]

And with that, I must flee

[DERBRUCER]

Wasn't "Hell Toupee" an episode of Amazing Stories?

How about the famous woodwind player "Toupee: the Piper"

der Brucer

[Edisaurus]

A more recent dog movie I liked was "My Dog Skip"

http://mydogskip.warnerbros.com/

not only because it had some Van Dyke Parks music, but it also introduced me to the music of the Boswell Sisters.

And it made me cry!

[DERBRUCER]

And it made me cry!

I thought only onions made your ice water.

der Brucer

[DearReaderLaura]

I am NOT so happy about no mail, either,

I am thrilled about no mail today; my DH is a postal worker and he is home today.

[DERBRUCER]

A more recent dog movie I liked was "My Dog Skip"

Instead of copying pics from the web to your computer and then attaching them, you can post them like this:



(And you can then do more than 1 pic per post should you so choose)

der Brucer

[jhvw]

Back from new york into the hornets nest. There was a school shooting todayat where I used to go to Jr. High, so our station has become overrun with people from the national news. It's a mad house, kinda fun in a weird way. Nobody was hurt in the shooting luckily.

[DERBRUCER]

Back from new york into the hornets nest. There was a school shooting todayat where I used to go to Jr. High, so our station has become overrun with people from the national news. It's a mad house, kinda fun in a weird way. Nobody was hurt in the shooting luckily.
 

This one?

Associated Press

JOPLIN, Mo. —  A 13-year-old student wearing a mask and a long, black trenchcoat fired an AK-47 into the ceiling at his school Monday morning after confronting a pair of students and administrators, telling them "please don't make me do this," officials said.

No one was injured, and the boy, who police said was following a well-thought out plan, was taken into custody.
...

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

Ms Taylor - ready your purse:

World's 15th Largest Diamond Fetches $12 Million

Monday , October 09, 2006
 
ANTWERP, Belgium  — A South African company bought the world's 15th-largest rough diamond Monday, paying more than $12 million for the golf-ball sized gem found in the tiny Southern Africa country of Lesotho, officials said.

South African Diamond Corp., the overseas-based manufacturing arm of famed British gem seller Graff Jewelers, purchased the 603-carat stone for $12.4 million, said Lesotho's Natural Resources Minister Mamphono Khaketla, whose government co-owned the gem with a private concern, Gem Diamonds.
…
South African Diamond Corp. said it plans to turn the raw stone into one cut gem above 60 carats in addition to other, smaller stones, with a final sale price of more than $20 million. Experts have graded the stone "class D," saying it is of the clearest quality, with no color blemishes.

The largest diamond ever found, the Cullinan, was the size of a bowling ball at 3,106 carats in the rough. That finished stone is set in Britain's Imperial Sceptre as part of the Crown Jewels.
…
The 1.8 million people of Lesotho, a tiny mountain kingdom completely encircled by South Africa, are among the world's poorest.

I am sure a vast amount of the proceeds will go to the poor

der Brucer

[bk]

I shall now be on my way to the read-through.  Keep the home fries burning until my returning.

[Matt H.]

Turned out to be a beautiful day. From my lunch companions I learned it's going to be WINTER by Saturday, but right now it's more like late summer. Quite beautiful.

[Matt H.]

I am thrilled about no mail today; my DH is a postal worker and he is home today.

I am VERY happy for you, DR Laura, just sad and disappointed for myself.

[elmore3003]

OOHHH!!!

DR MBarnum - Wonderful new avatar!  <drool>

Fickle Filipino!  

[Matt H.]

I watched last night's COLD CASE, a poignant story of an interracial love affair and its aftermath. Fairly predictable murderer in this one.

[Edisaurus]

Instead of copying pics from the web to your computer and then attaching them, you can post them like this:
der Brucer

Der Brucer...were you spying on me?  

[elmore3003]

A more recent dog movie I liked was "My Dog Skip"

http://mydogskip.warnerbros.com/

not only because it had some Van Dyke Parks music, but it also introduced me to the music of the Boswell Sisters.

And it made me cry!

It's a great movie!

[Matt H.]

WITHOUT A TRACE had a story of a missing 911 operator. Very tricky plotting here that led the audience down one path (an angry husband seeking revenge for the death of his wife due to being put on hold by the 911 service) when the show was actually about something else.

Really enjoyed this episode.

[Matt H.]

And then I watched the GREY'S ANATOMY episode about the nurse's strike. This is the one that had Betty Garrett, June Lockhart, and others in a heart-rending segment involving a DNR patient mistakenly brought back to life.

[Matt H.]

I still have last night's DEXTER to watch and hope to get to it this evening before prime time programming begins.

[DERBRUCER]

And did DR MattH tape "Cassanova" last night?

It costars David Tennant, the new Dr. Who, which will please Woody, and a 74 year old Peter O'Toole, which will please me. (Always nice to see someone older and still breathing).

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

Der Brucer...were you spying on me?  

With help from my detective friend:



der Brucer

[Matt H.]

No, I didn't record "Cassanova."

[Matt H.]

And a Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian DRs!

Do you do anything special for this holiday?

[DERBRUCER]

History lesson sent from a friend:

Why we honor Columbus
By Dr. Joseph V. Scelsa
President, Italian American Museum


Perhaps Samuel Eliot Morison, in his book "Admiral of the Ocean Sea' has
said it best as to why we should remember Christopher Columbus. "The whole
history of the Americas stems from the Four Voyages of Columbus; and as the
Greek city-states looked back to the death-less gods as their founders, so
today a score of independent nations and dominions unite in homage to
Christopher, the stout hearted son of Genoa, who carried Christian
civilization across the Ocean Sea."

On May 20, 2006, the world quietly marked the 500th anniversary of the
passing of one of the most important men to have walked on and in his case
sailed the face of this earth. Christopher Columbus or Cristofero Colombo as
he was known by his Genoese parents dared to dream and act in ways no other
had done before. Some have called him the first American, others, an
adventurer or even a tyrant. What even one's opinion, no one can deny that
it was his indomitable spirit which drove him and lives on today in the new
world he opened by his voyages of discovery.

Historically, Columbus is an icon; in fact, the first known celebration in
his honor in New York took place in 1792 on the occasion of the third
hundred anniversary of his landing on the Americas. It was organized by the
"Society of Saint Tammy", an organization of American revolutionary war
veterans. The society later went on to become "Tammany Hall" the most
powerful political machine New York City has ever known. It's last leader,
an Italian American, Carmine DeSapio.

Sadly, today, parades and protest both take place in America on Columbus
Day. This once venerated "American Hero" has been under attack since before
the 500th anniversary even though there are streets, highways, towns,
cities, universities and even our nation's capitol, the District of
Columbia, named in his honor. For the past several years, protesters in
Denver, Colorado have disrupted the Annual Denver Columbus Day Parade
claiming that Columbus is responsible for plight of all indigenous people in
America and several states have sought to remove Columbus Day as an official
holiday.

In New York State it was then Assemblyman Al Smith and Senator "Big Tom"
Sullivan who introduced the bill in 1909 which Governor Charles Hughes
signed making Columbus Day a state holiday. By 1910, eight other states
followed New York; New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland,
California, Michigan, Montana and Illinois making Columbus Day a legal state
holiday. In 1934, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt designed October 12th,
a day of nationwide celebration and in 1968, President Lynden B. Johnson
signed the bill making Columbus Day a Federal Holiday.

Perhaps the most famous Columbus monument stands in New York City at
Columbus Circle at the junction of Central Park and Broadway. It was mostly
the Italian immigrants at the time who contributed to the fund for the
monument started by Carlo Barsotti in 1889, the publisher of Il Progresso
Italo-Americano and then presented it to the City of New York in time for
the fourth hundred anniversary of Columbus' first voyage in 1892. In 1968,
the Columbus Citizens Foundation under the New York City Adopt-A-Monument
Program raised the $450,000 necessary to restore the monument to its
original splendor prior to the 500th anniversary.

Although today, the Manhattan parade rarely passes by the monument except
when the solemn Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur falls on Columbus Day and out
of respect for our Jewish brethren, we don't march past their Fifth Avenue
synagogue it still stand as a beacon of hope and encouragement for all to
see, Italian and all non-Italians alike.

In 1907, New York City (Manhattan) had two parades one on Mulberry Street
and the other in East Harlem (which was in the 1930's and 40's, the largest
Italian district in the country). In 1927, the Columbus Citizens Committee
assumed responsibility for the parade, later in 1944 under the leadership of
Generoso Pope; the Columbus Citizens Foundation took over the responsibility
for the parade and has done so every year since then. Perhaps the most
significant parade in Columbus's honor was that of October 8, 2001, just one
month after the tragedy of September 11, 2001 when 3,000 American lives were
lost in the worst attack on the United States since December 7, 1941 when
the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The first official parade (public
gathering) after 9/11 in New York City was the Columbus Day Parade. People
from all walks of life, not just those of Italian descent came out to line
the streets t not only to celebrate the achievements of Columbus, but to
show their patriotism, a testament to his and 'our" indomitable spirit which
he represents. More than anything that is what Christopher Columbus has come
to stand for and why he will always be remembered. His indomitable spirit
lives on, his belief in himself and his determination to follow through on
his dreams of a better life in America for ourselves and our children. That
is Christopher Columbus' real legacy and that is why we, the children of
Columbus, the heirs of his legacy must never forget him. He led our way.


C Foundation Quarterly, Columbus Citizens Foundation Fall 2006
www.italianamericanmuseum.org

der Brucer

[Jrand73]

Well my hair could look like that - if I tried, DR derBRUCER.

[Jrand73]

Yes MY DOG SKIP was a lovely and touching film, I think a triple feature of SKIP, Imitation of Life, and Old Yeller would bring a flood of tears only dreamed of my most "tearjerkers" of today.

[DERBRUCER]

From the "Kill It Before Its Born" department:

Bob Dylan Musical Will Lose $10 Million, Insiders Say

Monday , October 09, 2006
By Roger Friedman
 
The much-touted musical "The Times They Are A-Changin'" is a financial and artistic disaster, insiders tell me.

Producers of the troubled show that features the music of Bob Dylan set to dance pieces by the legendary Twyla Tharp now fear a total loss when the show opens on Oct. 26.

"We'll lose all $10 million," predicted one insider who knows the score. "It's terrible."
…
One big problem, sources said, is that the Dylan songs have been arranged into unrecognizable Broadway versions of themselves.

"You couldn't tell what they were," said an observer.
Tharp is rushing to turn them back into folk songs, but it's probably too late for that.
…

Those darn arrangers!

der Brucer

[Matt H.]

I'm heading down now to clean the den and continue reading until prime time TV.

WBBL.