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[FJL]

And one for Reiner

[Matt H.]

Next, I decided to open my Blu-ray set of HEROES - Season 2 and watch that season's final episode just to put the show, its characters, and the ending storyline back in my head. I'm so glad I did as I felt right up to date once I had finished.

And let me just say WOW, WOW, WOW!!! (That's three HELLO, DOLLY "Wows") for the picture and sound quality of the Blu-ray. I could count every pore in the face of every actor on the show. I have NEVER seen anything that sharp before on my set. Certainly none of the other Blu-ray TV box sets have had picture quality that astonishing.

Needless to say, when the network HD broadcast happened, it wasn't nearly as sharp (though it looked quite nice.)

[Matt H.]

I also watched the alternate ending that had been planned for Season 2 which was quite interesting as well.

[Matt H.]

Then I watched tonight's HEROES 2-hour season premiere. Looks like it's going to be quite fascinating with all these evil villains, people seeming to switch sides and allegiances, and the return of some folks from before. I thoughtly enjoyed the two hours (well, actually about 85 minutes).

I think the show is on the right track to be something special once again.

[Matt H.]

I did stop and watch a couple of NBC promos for THE OFFICE, LIFE, and MY OWN WORST ENEMY. Can't wait for the first two to start back up again.

[Matt H.]

Heading downstairs now to read a bit and then go to bed.

Good night!

[JMK]

I wonder if JR has seen that Robert Wagner and Barbara Stanwyck were playing "hide the iceberg" on the set of "Titanic."

[FJL]

"Iceberg, Goldberg.  What's the difference?"

from The Guide to Jewish Humor by Anonymous

[FJL]

I feel odd asking this, but I feel someone is using the amazon review system unethically with respect to the Last Starfighter CD and I don't know what else to do, so I'm appealing to the folks here.  It seems that someone who didn't like the workshop of Last Starfighter in Issaquah, WA decided to post a terrible one-star review for the CD on amazon, and based on the date it appeared it seems to have been a response to the workshop rather than the CD.    If anyone who really liked the CD has some time, would you post a review on amazon.com.  I think the one-star review is something of a fraud since it's obvious that it was posted based on the workshop rather than a direct response to the CD, and we oddly only have four reviews on amazon.  (including Larry's, thank you Larry.  And Debby, thanks for posting on cdbaby.)

Many thanks to anyone who liked the CD and is willing to post a review.

[MBarnum]

DR FJL, I think that you can report that review to Amazon.com and have them removie it since it seems to not have anything to do with the CD

[MBarnum]

Finally, I figured out how to make a photo album on my FACEBOOK page.

[FJL]

Thanks for the thought, MBarnum.  I clicked to report as inappropriate, but they don't ask for an explanation, and I have no proof except that the person posted his review in response to the workshop based on the dates, and the guy cleverly referenced the CD material.  

Of course, it would be much better to have more reviews of the CD on amazon.  I have no idea why we only have had three reviews besides the defrauder!!!  Thanks to anyone who's willing to post a review to help balance out the defrauder's impact on the average.

[DERBRUCER]

Has anyone watched my news report yet?  Did you watch & not find it funny, therefore no comment?

Those kind of video links do not work well for us poor folk with dial-up.

der Brucer

[DERBRUCER]

Factcheck.org has an interesting timeline & info regarding "the bridge to nowhere"Interesting McCain was against it while Biden & Oboma voted for it.

* Biden and Obama voted for the authorization bill, which included the earmarks, and the final appropriations bill, which didn't. McCain voted against the authorization but was not present for the vote on the appropriations bill.
    * Biden and Obama voted against redirecting the money intended for Alaska to Louisiana. McCain did not vote.

I don't fault Obama/Biden - attempts to diddle with one earmark in a majpr appropriation bill would open up a Pandora's box of Congressional in-fighting.

der Brucer

[bk]

FJL, you can absolutely have it removed - some putz did that for Rewind - someone who follows me around trying to cause me grief wherever I go - I reported it, gave an explanation that it was someone who hadn't even read the book (obvious because of the stupid way he wrote his "review") and amazon removed it within ten minutes.

[bk]

I've written a review of TLS.  Now, if only I could get Cilla and vixmom to write theirs for Murder At The Grove, but that is seemingly The Impossible Dream.

[DERBRUCER]

The Stadium, where he'd seen so many wonderful movies, where he'd sat in his tenth-row aisle-seat for as long as he could remember, where Susan Pomeroy had first scratched the inside of his arm, where he'd sat with Paul Daley seeing movie after movie, where he'd seen the glories of VistaVision and Cinemascope and Technicolor and heard the glories of Stereophonic Sound, where he'd gone on adventures with cowboys and Indians and adventurers and plunderers and heroes and villains, where he'd gone on a voyage with Sinbad, where he'd journeyed to the center of the earth, where he'd traveled on a time machine to the future, where he'd seen those blonde children with the weird eyes, where he'd visited other worlds, other lands, and met the most wonderful characters and gotten lost in hundreds of movie moments that he could recall as if he'd seen them all yesterday.

Now that's a record - the world's longest sentence fragment:  one subject with no predicate.

der Brucer

[bk]

Now that's a record - the world's longest sentence fragment:  one subject with no predicate.

der Brucer

Only to a pedant, baby.  Rules, in case you haven't heard, were meant to be broken, and in case you haven't read a book in the last ten years, they're being broken in much worse ways than that.  I will never sacrifice style or voice for pedantry.  In other words, I like it the way I wrote it and given the reaction to the Kritzer books, so did mostly everyone else.  I haz spoken.  Thank the Lord I have someone like Margaret as my muse, and not someone like you - she would never have let me touch anything in that paragraph and she's right.  You, on the other hand would have rapped my knuckles and told me to "fix" it.

[bk]

Welcome twelve GUESTS - and one pedant.

[DERBRUCER]

Only to a pedant, baby.  Rules, in case you haven't heard, were meant to be broken, and in case you haven't read a book in the last ten years, they're being broken in much worse ways than that.  I will never sacrifice style or voice for pedantry.  In other words, I like it the way I wrote it and given the reaction to the Kritzer books, so did mostly everyone else.  I haz spoken.  Thank the Lord I have someone like Margaret as my muse, and not someone like you - she would never have let me touch anything in that paragraph and she's right.  You, on the other hand would have rapped my knuckles and told me to "fix" it.

I enjoy your style and voice - wouldn't change a word. I just wish you'd punctuate the prose the way that you would read it aloud. When I read, I mentally hear voices, and visually see pictures. The way you punctuate leaves my inner voice breathless!

der Brucer

[bk]

I enjoy your style and voice - wouldn't change a word. I just wish you'd punctuate the prose the way that you would read it aloud. When I read, I mentally hear voices, and visually see pictures. The way you punctuate leaves my inner voice breathless!

der Brucer

And that's the way we like it!  I do try and punctuate the way I talk and the way my eye would like a sentence to read - in the Kritzer books I constantly fought one of the proofers who wanted so many damn commas it just drove me crazy because it breaks the flow of the line, even though they're correct.  I do them when it doesn't break the flow, but I tend to sacrifice them for flow.