party of joe
come back to the five and dime, robert altman, robert altman
Steve Allen, Jack Kerouac, interview / On the Road reading / piano noodling video.
Photo of Toronto in the clouds.
it was a word his mother used to use.
anybody ever hear of this lana turner lsd movie?
emergency baking ingredient substitutions
via USDA intranet
via USDA intranet
Here's a video I shot in the Alps this morning.
Unlike Oskar Fischinger, whose estate is apparently Larry King- or Ted Stevens-like in not getting the Internet, Harry Smith is on YouTube.
nuggets from a tellall about hollywood in the fifties.
heres a guy with an incredible body of work. the sidney falco character from sweet smell of success was a self caricature.
sweet smell and night of the hunter, which he didnt write (charles laughton did) were both critically acclaimed but box office flops. (i saw a couple of minutes of spike lees do the right thing last night. in hunter, robert mitchum has love and hate scrawled on his knuckles and he uses them to illustrate his struggle with righteousness. in do the right thing, the character has a pair of those brass knuckle-like rings for your entire hand. on one hand he had love and the other hate. the character does the entire mitchum monologue updated for 80s brooklyn speech patterns.)
kim novak of vertigo fame had an intimate relationship with sammy davis jr. her studio chief forced her to break it off if she wanted to maintain her career.
heres a guy with an incredible body of work. the sidney falco character from sweet smell of success was a self caricature.
sweet smell and night of the hunter, which he didnt write (charles laughton did) were both critically acclaimed but box office flops. (i saw a couple of minutes of spike lees do the right thing last night. in hunter, robert mitchum has love and hate scrawled on his knuckles and he uses them to illustrate his struggle with righteousness. in do the right thing, the character has a pair of those brass knuckle-like rings for your entire hand. on one hand he had love and the other hate. the character does the entire mitchum monologue updated for 80s brooklyn speech patterns.)
kim novak of vertigo fame had an intimate relationship with sammy davis jr. her studio chief forced her to break it off if she wanted to maintain her career.
my god, its full of buttons.
Not sure why anyone would want any fashion / shopping advice from me, but I just went to the brand new store Uniqlo on Broadway between Prince and Spring. Sort of a Japanese Gap or J. Crew. Except much better in my opinion. And cheap! Holy cow. Men's and women's. Worth a look.
my brother sent me this link. his friend robin named a gene she discovered Taupe (after another gene Beige.) not funny enough to make the article though.
Chris Bowers uses...sarcasm.
norquist is on cspan now.
entertaining richard dawkins lecture on cspan2 book tv 7-9pm.
im macaca, youre macaca, hes macaca, shes macaca. wouldnt you like to be macaca, too?
Man Without A Past is highly highly recommended for anyone (bill) with an interest in understated abject humour and shipping container housing. We just watched it, and it's my new favourite movie ever.
tunguska explosion of 1908
any body else get that feeling that the bush alternate universe was lifted last wednesday? all of a sudden its back to the real world with the real world checks and balances. out goes the rove/republican bag of dirty tricks that started with clinton and the special prosecutor. in comes nancy pelosi with her eyes on the constitutional prize. which does not include impeachment (because thats what they would do). only problem i think hillary is still stuck in the old fake world of fake personality and fake politics.
gore vidal was on lopate yesterday. when asked about news paper editorials cautioning against too many hearings, vidal responded with: "NEWSPAPERS!? Who has any respect for anything they've read in news papers since 1787. they are paid for acts by the same people that brought you bush and the democrats." (he went on to say that "the republicans got rid of habeas corpus and due process and it will take two generations to get the constitution back.")
i thank the blogosphere for providing watch dog services during this recent dark age. i expect they will provide useful service in the future.
here is about as much gloating as i think we should indulge in at this time.
gore vidal was on lopate yesterday. when asked about news paper editorials cautioning against too many hearings, vidal responded with: "NEWSPAPERS!? Who has any respect for anything they've read in news papers since 1787. they are paid for acts by the same people that brought you bush and the democrats." (he went on to say that "the republicans got rid of habeas corpus and due process and it will take two generations to get the constitution back.")
i thank the blogosphere for providing watch dog services during this recent dark age. i expect they will provide useful service in the future.
here is about as much gloating as i think we should indulge in at this time.
fresh direct recently added a useful tool to their website -- shopping by recipe. all ingredients can easily be purchased on the same page the recipe appears.
had my first fizzy lizzy which i enjoyed.
