Normally, I use this space to point out nifty things, concepts and people, usually related to my then-current All-Consuming Interest.
This post is actually no different, as I am installing a networked Blu-Ray Player this weekend (and connectng it to our existing TV – tell no one!).
Mr Carroll, noted columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has these important safety tips.
Improv Everywhere are really really cool artists, and if I happen to hear about a mission happening near me, I’m there.
Baldwin Hills, California. March 2008. A napkin. Lemonade. Art.
Ten years of Ren Fair and an ongoing interest in the SCA and Frances Burns shows up here at the casa with an excellent costume book:
The Tudor Tailor
ISBN 0-89676-255-6
$35.00
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May I recommend the upcoming Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip?
Mondays starting Sept. 18 on NBC; if you have Netflix, you can get the pilot now on DVD, as we did.
The show is from the original West Wing team of Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme. Here’s the setup: A writing/directing team (Bradley Whitford and Matthew Perry) are brought back to save a Saturday-Night-Live-like show – four years after they were fired from that same show. The chairman of the network, who fired them before, still hates them, but he’s setting up the new head of programming to fail. It’s much better than I describe it here, including Judd Hirsch in a meltdown right out of Network, and a nice cameo by Ed Asner.
One minor difficulty with the DVD: Chris and I are both somewhat dependent on closed-captioning, and this preview DVD isn’t captioned.
From 1999 until 2004, I published the Alien Wine Connoisseur website. Then, poof! it vanished in the confusion as the hosting company folded up shop. Thanks to the Wayback Machine, I’m archiving it here. During the archiving process, you can read AWC on the Wayback Machine here, or the site archives here. Or just look at the “Alien Wine Connoisseur” category.
Note: As I archive, I’ll be storing the posts with their original dates.
Another Note: Where links to the original source are unavailable, I won’t repost. Some of these are available in the Internet Archive. Think of it as entropy in action.
Note to self: the Weblog section is done. Moving up one.
Learning Digieridoo May Help With Snoring
As I have sleep apnea, and I think the dig’ is cool, this is interesting me. This falls squarely into the “or I could go to New Zealand*” category, true, but a truly ugly digiridoo can be made for a few bucks. Lessons would be the hard part. I know a local dig’ player; I wonder if he’s still local, and does he teach? Must ponder.
*We currently have family in Wellington, so we’re saving up for a trip. This causes a behavior pattern: We consider buying something, then put it back on the shelf as we say “Or we could go to New Zealand”. Very therapeutic.
This is a blog whee I’ll maintain links to whatever I’m interested in at the moment. I am quite the magpie.
During a recent flight, I learned this Important Legal Fact from the inflight magazine:
Barry Manilow is a registered trademark of Hastings, Clayton & Tucker, Inc.
Well. Does this mean that the man – the genius – behind I Write the Songs and Copacabana is a legal fiction? Did he never exist? And if that’s the case, who’s playing the Vegas Hilton?
My guess: The man inside c-3PO: Anthony Daniels. Note the eerie resemblance. And you never, never see Barry Manilow and Anthony Daniels together. Or even Barry Manilow and C-3PO.
And the Vegas Hilton does have a well-known connection to science fiction.
So what’s the real story? We may never know. The shadowy firm of Hastings, Clayton & Tucker, Inc. does not seem to have its own Web site. More details as we get them…
Some movies you go see for the ending. Others you go to for the spectacle. Others because it’s hot in Arizona, and the theater is air conditioned.
Go see Cast Away, the new Hanks/Zemeckis movie, for the middle. See it to see an actor at work. Acting students should see this movie, because the core of the movie is a textbook lesson in acting for the camera. Continue reading
by Patrick Connors
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Surrey, here’s the Website of the Woking Martian.
Woking, you may recall, got pretty trashed in the original War of the Worlds. H. G. Wells lived there and wrote about what he knew…