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The last few days I’ve been getting a fair number of hits on my site for “Leigh Bielenberg”, which will have had to do with her death, most landing on the page I put up to do with Leigh’s talk before the Atlanta City Council in August of 2008.
On Monday, Leigh died after another very [...]

Not having seen “Doubt” on the stage, and having read some reviews of the play that laud it over the film and remarks on some differences, I feel at a disadvantage discussing the film, but as John Patrick Shanley, the author, also directed the film, unless he privately changed the motivations of his characters during [...]

Boingboing today pointed to this film, “Century 21 Calling…”, dated 1964 but courtesy of the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle.

Toward the beginning of the film, the camera following a teenage couple gleefully riding the monorail, we get this rear shot of them.
What first comes to your mind?

Me? I thought, ah, so here we have [...]

I just watched a film short on Turner Classic Movies that was pretty interesting, titled “Of Pups and Puzzles”. The film was released Sept 1941 and thus predated, if by just a few months, the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into WWII, so it wasn’t your standard WWII patriotic oompahpah, [...]

I was thinking, “Why not take a virtual trip to your Custer Avenue Wastewater Treatment Facility”, and so found my way to the website for Alberici Enterprises, which contracts the cleaning of what winds its way through this area’s drains for $37,000,000. And looking at the website, which has only two teeny pictures to educate [...]

One of the better comments I’ve seen on yesterday’s diabolical Supreme Court ruling is over at Americablog.
Ode to a Frog
And as she ran from the room screaming and crying he was heard to say…….
“Was it something I did, was it something I said???”

“Let’s watch The Time Machine,” I’ve been encouraging H.o.p. for a couple of weeks, and he always declined, intent instead on working on his projects, not wanting to be distracted despite the fact it was directed by animator and special effects artist George Pal. Which surprised me as he loved Pal’s “War of the [...]

I didn’t take it. The photo is from the Hanford Declassified Project and the nearly 800 photos I culled from the Hanford Declassified Project and loaded up at Flickr because of the govt’s unfriendly navigation and search system.
Hairstyles. Of Starlets. This photo has 12 favorites to date. And I think it is [...]

Google is under the impression that the only post on this site was one from Dec 29 2005 in which I offered happy new year wishes. So, today, I replaced that post with the above image that I spent all morning feverishly painting. At least I have now a (kind of) dialogue going with the [...]