If you’ve never seen “The Wrong Box”, and you hear the names Peter Sellers, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Michael Caine, and think it worth watching, there’s an even better reason. Wilfrid Lawson, who plays the butler, Peacock.
What I wonder is if Albert Finney borrowed on Lawson for Scrooge? It sure seems like he did.
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Barry Mahon’s oeuvre consists primarily of 60s sex flicks/exploitation films, though his bio at IMDB focuses on his having been Errol Flynn’s manager. At the end of his production career he did a few children’s films, showcasing his son, which are supposed to be…bizarre.
The question? How can I rationalize spending $30 on a DVD of [...]
Toothpick lampshade making its way around the internet. I saw it last week on another site and is on Boingboing now. My immediate response is, “But you’ll poke your eye out!” I seem to be the only one with such concerns. (But, seriously, “You’ll poke your eye out!”)
Our son is a big fan of the Mouse Guard books. Which means he’s going to soon find this Mouse Guard game and want it. (Has great reviews.) As for his making a computer game, last night he announced that he realized he didn’t really want to try to program a game, he just [...]
I never anticipated trying to help my son make a computer game. Teaching him Photoshop, helping with animation programs etc., yes. But a computer game??? He’s working in MIT’s Scratch and I haven’t a clue.
More and more poses (called costumes) he makes. And sprites. And backgrounds. Eventually he’s going to be serious when [...]
A really good incentive to immediately wash your dishes after dinner and take out the trash is because you never know when the police are going to be trekking through your apartment to get to the back courtyard. At least the place was tidy otherwise.
Watching a piece on Las Vegas in which “no notice” evictions are taking place. The renter has been paying on their rent while the owner of the property has been going through foreclosure proceedings and not notified the renter. Then the bank sends out the police to kick out the tenants with no notice [...]
We, too, have a rug that kinda tied the room together
By admin on May 22nd, 2009Posted In: Uncategorized
We too have a rug that kinda tied the room together…and it is suddenly deteriorating over the past couple of months. And I didn’t think it was moths. But what was causing it?
For anyone who’s interested in learning a little bit about hand-knotted Orientals that aren’t what they seem to be, the in-laws gave us [...]