Hi Jane. I need to check out “The Office” sometime; just about all of my friends are into it and rave about it.

My respite of choice right now is the NCAA tournament, but baseball is just around the corner :-)

Jane!

hi Jane

madly watching battlestar gallactica season three in time for season four’s premiere.

and booze.

I’m not into network tv and mostly read books but I my guilty pleasure on the toobz is Dexter. I have no idea what that says about me as a person.

My BoSox eked out the first win of the new season, LL! 6-5 in 10 Innings, tomorrow morn at 6am Eastern is game two…!

Judge Judy.

I love it when she nails the cheats who try to collect rent from their deadbeat live-in ex-boyfriends after having welfare pay their rent. I also like it when she screams at the apparently able-bodied, “What’s the nature of your disability?” One woman replied nobly last week, “I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.” Shut Judy up real fast.

There’s something primal and Reaganesque about her.

I’m still having fun finding and publishing odd news stories, spending time at blogs, telling my kid I need more details about the definition of “hanging out, ya know, with my friends,” and holding down two jobs.

Jane!
I’m working my way through The West Wing again.
Yeah, it takes a work of fiction these days to imagine a government with a conscience.

Aloha CT, I saw that — go Sox! Our Washington Nats open the season in their brand-new park this weekend *g*

‘What she said.’ (in my best Michael voice)

Santa Fe and The Fat City Horns, of course.

When it’s gotta be top of the line.

Every Monday. Free. Unreal.

g’evening jane
g’evening pups

osho zen cards

if that doesn’t work, there’s always Francis Crawford of Lymond.

Dude, you must have special dispensation tonight…

One of my all time favorite shows. Newest favorite is Boston legal.

Suzanne! Welcome home!

Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe [tonight–”pancakes” in baby diapers. ]

Prep school for the post-Bush era. Cleaning up is gonna take a lot of willing hands and strong stomachs.

Hi Jane!
Recently saw the most brutal Mike Judge comedy ever (or at least since he grew up). Horrified, helpless, howling laughter-
Idiocracy

was that your ‘one’, ct?

Hi, I’m hooked on John Adams

Mad Men. Back when it was Tricky Dick or JFK.

Oh, and rooting for UCLA in the NCAA’s…

*waving to Suz* Welcome back, hope you enjoyed your break :-)

Evening Suz
Welcome back!

had two days of doing nothing – magnificently i must say

I escape to sports. Got back from a Gator baseball game (that was way too cold) in time to watch most of the Gator basketball game against bmaz’s Sun Devils.

newt, I’m guilty too *g*

Have the DVD of Dexter but haven’t watched it yet. I have read all the books and always want them to never end. Great storyteller.
And, yes, my escape from the madness is books and more books. Believe me, Amazon is my best friend.

Hmmm…I remember sh*t…

Oh, on second thought, now that there is video, I don’t remember the sh*t I said I remembered..

Oh, is that what happened? Oh, well, I talk so much.. a million words a minute…that is why I don’t remember whether I was shot at, ducked and ran for the limo and there was no welcoming “committee” at all, which is what I thought I remembered, but…

Or, Oh shizzola, there were cameras….

WTF?

That’s what I think. BS.

VG
If you’re here, I left the email exchange at the end of the last thread.

oh, and watching my daily “soap” ‘in treatment’. only three episodes left. *sob*

Hiya! Oh, Top Gear on BBC America.

Heh, I fulfilled my pledge to RBG, it’s the start of the new season! Play Ball! Oh and FTFY!

No spoilers, please, I don’t want to know if the Brits or the Yanks win. :)

I don’t have HBO, so I’m going to wait until they release it on DVD. What time period does the series cover?

My respite? Reality.

that doesn’t change FDL into a sports blog, tho CT :)

Howdy, Ma’am! Glad to see ya back in the saddle! *g*

well, it 1 was about the time around the boston tea party, 2 was declaration of independence, 3 is revolutionary war, 4 appears post revolutionary war … I’m assuming it ends with his life ending since there’s a total of 7

Yes’m, I know! 8-P

*putting away sap*

So what’s your respite of choice from the primary that never ends?

Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters.

They occasionally filmed near where we used to live in the SF area, and there are probably pictures of me that got edited out of their shots.

So what’s your respite of choice from the primary that never ends?

music and cartoons

Breaking Bad and Mad Men have been pretty good on AMC!

Run through the countryside on my hind legs. Sometimes I don’t feel like coming back. If I decide to run with coyotes permanently one day, I will look back on FDL fondly as one of the last outposts of civilized wildness.

…so if gets to too crazy, and I feel safer out in the wild, and you hear a Yaaaawooooooh deep in the night, it might be me with my coyote friends.

I’m waaay over due on a hair cut -I’m getting already getting ready, maybe.

Suz, are you a fan of the Dog Whisperer?

Mythbusters is awesome. Great scientific method there, plus a lot of fun.

nope, mainly watch pbs, science channel or (hanging head in shame) those decorating shows on hgtv.

any bookstore is a friend of mine *g* Mr and i are terrible in record shops and bookstores.

Sometimes the Dog Whisperer can be, well, a sexist.

I watched “Across the Universe” on PPV…made me and Mr. LS cry…that is quite an accomplishment I might add…. Very well-done 60’s/70’s creative musical, that nails a lot of stuff…other than that…my respite is gardening or yoga or music, and trying not to have a panic attack. Trying to get centered…not easy with that which we all face.

Oh Suz, I love those decorating shows! And, What Not to Wear!

Suz, I hang my head in shame along with you because I’m a Food Network junkie ;-)

I have a few oldies that I used to watch from the BBC. Keeping Up Appearances and Coupling

Mary, well you are right — but darn it those dogs do behave.

I watch those crazy Forensics shows.

Someone recently called me sick and twisted.
Who was that????? mmmmmmmm :)

ot for any d.b. cooper mystery fans: “parachute found in clark county could belong to d.b. cooper”

http://www.kirotv.com/news/15703294/detail.html

I like the Iron Chef showdowns and Good Eats with Alton…! ;-)

Me too — my fav right now is Test Kitchen.

takes one to know one – twas me :)

When your six year old comes home from kindergarten and say “Dad, let’s do an experiment to test a myth today,” you know they’re doing something right. Of course, by the time he gets to high school he’ll want to blow up a cement mixer for extra credit in his physics class or something . . .

just put that in the news box

wobbs, during my last couple of trips to England my friend there introduced me to “One Foot In The Grave” — funny stuff!

Shhhhhhhhhhhh. 10 Years Younger…Shhhh….

Just keep the trout away from the ice cream maker, no matter what that Iron Chef did.

eCAHN- Yes! I read, and left you a reply asking for his email addy, and more.

That was just great! Thank you SO much!

My daughter watches all the time and swears by his methods. She has a chihuahua, a pug, and a half Husky, half wolf – most beautiful dog you have ever seen.

Shall I share my little peeps image?

CT and Chris, kindred spirits :-) Giada and Paula are my faves…

hiya Jane—

the flight attendant let me tap into their Delta accounts on this flight to Hong Kong via LAX…I charmed them…5 hours into this flight already…over the Pacific…my third glass of red wine…

My kids gifted me with DVDs of Seasons 1, 2, and 3 because they were tired of my missing their innuendo and allusions.

It’s a great shorthand; I can now understand them when they say things like: “,,,so she was looking a little too ‘Meredith’ the other morning…”, or (for a guy they didn’t much like) “,,,a little too Dwightish, but without the toys.”

evil laugh

I watch the First 48 on A&E and well my dad works in the field of forensics so we had some interesting dinner conversations.

Suzanne, here’s a hopeful one:

http://centab.headonradionetwo…..ires-teen/

Obama inspires teen
from The Central Tabulator by susan

From The Centre Daily Times

By Dena Pauling

- dpauling@centredaily.com STATE COLLEGE — Krishna Esteva and Claire Gray found the perfect spot to lure first-time voters.

At lunchtime last week, Esteva, 18, and Gray, 17, stood outside the State College Area High School North Building Cafeteria, where they placed voter registration forms and tubs of candy on a table and taped up a “Rock the Vote” sign.

They talked their peers into registering and fielded questions from first-time voters.

“Can I register to vote here? I’m going to be 18 on April 10,” Elizabeth Hunter asked.

“You can actually vote in the primary,” Esteva said, handing her a form. “Just fill out that part there.”

After a few moments of writing, a tinge of panic: “I don’t know my driver’s license number,” she said. “Can I return this to you?”

“Yep,” he responded. “We’ll be here tomorrow and the day after, too.”

Hunter said she plans to vote for Sen. Barack Obama.

And just like that, the presidential hopeful picked up another likely vote thanks in part to Esteva, a State High senior. MORE

Just keep the trout away from the ice cream maker, no matter what that Iron Chef did.

Hah! For sure! *g*

YES!!! that is awesome too. I have a dry sense of humour so british comedies play well with me

Diggit

a peep show?

very nice! safe flying.

Los Angeles Angels of Anahiem baseball! We have been lucky to have a few spring training games televised and the season starts in a week in Minnesota. We hate the Bosox! Here’s a pie thrown in the direction of CTuttle. Ha, ha.

As I put on FB too, Gordon Ramsey Kitchen Nightmares…

Jeebus Peeps

Left you an answer to yours.

We are currently working our way through Season 1 of Heroes on DVD. Demetrius watched it live, but missed some, and he got the DVD set for Christmas. The whole family has been watching it a couple episodes at a time.

Actually we’ve only got one episode left to go, which I know is supposed to be a cliffhanger. And apparently the Season 2 DVD release is months away. :(

Sounds like you’re right above me, Bio!

VG – bad link in email from you.

oh and well I loved MST (Mystery Science Theater) that was hella funny

i’m on my second … cheers!!!! How’s it going?

hehe…

Salut, Biodun!

When I freak out, I watch stuff like Garden Police and stuff like that…or, Paula’s Home Cookin’ MaMa….

Dexter. I like to watch Dexter. Goes hand in hand with my Forensics fascination.

Hysterical.

A worthwhile WaPo0 chatz tomorrow:

Frontline producer Michael Kirk will be online Wednesday, March 26 at 11 a.m. ET to discuss his two-part film “Bush’s War,” which reviews the genesis and full history of the five-year U.S. war in Iraq, drawing on fresh reporting and interviews and more than 40 previous Frontline films that have documented the war on terror.

thanks tex

kinda bumpy..I hate turbulence…have never gotten used to it…the woman next to me is fast asleep..kinda hot..Chinese…hmm…don’t have any ideas…two movies already…

thanks dood :)

Salut!!!

Mr wobbs told me to confess my collection of old movies that I watch (okay okay, I love old movies…favorite is Love Crazy (Myrna Loy and Willian Powell) well before they began doing the Thin Man series. ( I also have a few Joan Crawford movies…)

My respite has been watching movies from my rather eclectic video collection. Esp. comedies.

Earlier today I was rewatching “When Harry Met Sally”. God, I was laughing so hard during the “fake an orgasm” scene that I almost gagged on my home-made asparagus quiche.

“I’ll have what she’s having”. ;)

See my comment @5

No more wire hangers.

My six years old used to run through the house yelling that.

I like “Moving Up”…everybody freaks when the house they used to live in changes when people who now live there freaks out and changes the house…funny…things change…so it is….

mr wobbs is watching Blazing Saddles and after we will watch Monty Python (taping the PBS special)

It is sort of creepy but exciting.

And the gentlemen who bust the myths are easy on the eyes, as well!

Salut Biodun,
Ca va bien? Over which ocean?
Christine

well, tomorrow is one of those odd times when they actually want me to come to work at the same as other people. oh, the horror of it all!!!!

night y’all

My Pleasure of course!!
How are you doing Suz?

Peterr- try googling “cspan Krauss science anti-science” link should come out at the top of the list- not sure why the link didn’t work. p.s. my other respite has been watching Lawrence Krauss’s talk at the AEI.

LMAO…I did too when I saw the movie. I used ot be able to do whole scenes from that movie…

Joan: Why can’t you give me the respect…THAT I’M ENTITLED TO

Christina: Because I’M NOT ONE OF YOUR FANS

Blazing Saddles is my all-time favorite comedy. I watch it at least once a year. My favorite old movie is Separate Tables – just wonderful.

i always bring my own movies, thank goodness for laptops!

You like the beret, Teddy? ;-)

John Adams! GAWD. I can’t get enough, just keep watching it and looking up facts and biography of everyone and totally marveling at how appropriate it is to have made and shown this AT THIS TIME.
Here! Here! to Tom Hanks. It just couldn’t BE more timely and what a magnificent production, attention to detail and providing us with the feel of the era. And the music! wow, it’s a great respite from the spiteful primaries!
And thank you for asking.
:)

Boa noite, Betsy

Man, that Office YouTube is good.
Whoever put it together deserves a Dundee Award ;-))

Aloha, Ma’am, sleep well!

definitely one of my favs but so is Young Frankenstein and any monty python movie

My favorite escape is The Riches on FX. The 2nd season started last week. Yay!

during my layover at TBIT at LAX for 4 hours, I saw MSNBC dwelling on Hillary’s big lie re: Bosnia. She made it up. She also made up the bit about being named after Sir Edmund Hillary–when it’s clear Sir Edmund climbed the Everest in 1953–years after she was born…

I think MSNBC’s finally calling her on this bullshit…

pain free sleep wishes tex

hahahahahahahaah!!!

And BTVS of course. Got the dvd box set for Christmas and am totally loving it.

I suspect I’m not alone in the fact that one of my fave comedy movies is The Blues Brothers ;-)

the Pacific…LA to Hong Kong–some 14 hours and some change…we’re gonna fly over the North Pole…

What? she lied about her name? that is just well…damn

Hrmmm. i’ve got the usual shows to watch anime wise. I won’t list them. But i’ve been taking my time working through Jim Butcher’s Dresen Files. I finally got the latest book, White Night. OMG. I can’t WAIT for the next one out next month, Small Favor. I’ve yet to read a snarkier writer beyond Terry Pratchett who grabs me so instantly. Speaking of which, Pratchett should have a new one coming out in a few months too. Making Money’s been out around 6 to 8 months at the moment. *grin*

Bookwise, i’m pretty good on that count. For tv? Well this summer brings more Stargate: Atlantis. The strike didn’t mess up their primary filming schedule much at all, so i’ll get it in july. XD

Anime? Macross Plus, XXXholic season 2(not it’s not what you think. i’d explain but i’d go on for an entire page!), Bleach. Engine Sentai Go-Onger and Kamen Rider Kiva. Superheroes, space operas, fantasy/horror and boy’s manga CRACK. Um yeah. I think i’m set until November and quite likely beyond. Especially if the new Macross goes on for more than a single season…

The Princess Bride
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Blues Brothers

Office Space
Fear of a Black Hat

I agree. Here’s a direct link to the video.

that was my answer too … it’s delightful and reminds me of what it should mean to be an american

OT: Bush has gotten the United States into a no-win battle:

– If we withdraw from Iraq, Bin Laden will have driven the world’s
last remaining super-power from Islamic soil, praise Allah. He
will be gladdened, emboldened, and drunk with schadenfreude.

– If we stay, we bring Bin Laden ever more recruits and play into his
bleed-’em-to-bankruptcy strategy by which he and Reagan toppled the
Soviet Union and which is now wrecking our economy.

The next time McCain announces that he’ll stay until victory, somebody
needs to quote Sun Tzu, The Art of War, 400BC:

When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming,
[…] you will exhaust your strength, and if the campaign is
protracted, the resources of the state will not be equal to the
strain. […] In all history, there is no instance of a country
having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the
distasterous effects of a long war can realize the supreme
importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close.

In Iraq, the United States is pursuing an objective that is “not worth
the candle.” Iraq has become the Republicans’ Moby Dick. It is time
to cut our losses in both blood and treasure.

LOL

My Dear Biodun,
I’ve never flown over the Pacific. Sigh.

…flight plan according to map on monitor: Alaska; Aleutian Islands; North Pole; Ulan Bator (in Mongolia); then Hong Kong…

am entering a different zone now…

I own the entire Thin Man collection on DVD. :) I love old movies from the 30s and 40s. William Powell is fantastic. I adore Jean Harlow.

Biodun, I love trans-oceanic flight. Last trip I took, I had two or three glasses of Champagne *g*

I am a popular culture moron. I have no clue what most of you are talking about.

Hmmm… The World According to Garp, and any Robin Williams flick…!

Aren’t they great? I have such a difficult time explaining to others why I like them so much

I’m a Kari Byron fan myself. :)

and Peter Sellers !

Welcome back, Suzanne!

The Big Lebowski
Idiocracy
Love Actually

I think i won for the most obscure. *grins sheepishly* I think Stargate: Atlantis is the only semi mainstream show i watch. But the writing and the characters are so pricelessly good how can i NOT watch it?

…she lied about her role in the peace process in Northern Ireland as well…why does she do this? it’s gratuitous…

Family Guy

I am a popular culture moron.

Does that mean you know a lot about it or not?

Ack! Better than Hotel New Hampshire?

…i need more than that. Thank goodness booze is free on international flights…

RonD, ding! I love “Love Actually”…great flick!

Chef!
I loved that show. Hope I can find DVDs of it.
Medium is my must-watch.

Oh RonD,
Love Actually… love, love this film.

I know nothing about popular culture.

but her name? I’m just flabbergasted.
makes no sense

Christmas Story

I enjoyed the book more, but, Robin and Lithgow did an awesome job with Garp…! ;-0

I’m with you…love Stargate Atlantis.
I also watch Jericho—fantastic show. Hate that cbs cancelled it.

So what’s your respite of choice from the primary that never ends?

hopefully this thread will not devolve into a poo flinging thread and can remain a respite of choice from the primary that never ends

G’night friends, gotta save the public from themselves in the AM.

Biodun — have a couple of Champagnes for me, ok? *g*

Let’s spread the poo elsewhere, folks.
Thanks.

I have that too! Love, love, love the Thin Man series.

g’nite LL

Aloha, LL!

That first scene in “Love Actually”, where the burnt-out old rock star is trying to re-cut the Christmas version of his hit…priceless.

lotsa things don’t make sense about Hill these days…she’s desperate…she and the Big Dawg expected a coronation, and they’re blindsided by Obama, so they’re in shock, me thinks…

- No ridiculous blood or gore.

- No over the top sex that allows lazy writers to kill time.

- Many old movies based on well written plays.

- “Method acting” had not taken over yet. I find play acting more pleasing.

And, of course, lots and lots of movies were made, good and bad. We generally only get exposed to the good ones. :)

My favorite movies:
- Bombshell (1933)
- Mr. Lucky (1943)
- Wuthering heights (1939)

…guilty as charged…mea culpa…but i have an excuse..am drunk, or on my way there…but enuf…

(ducking now…)

Strangely, the housing bubble and credit meltdown on Wall Street have provided the necessary diversion. I’m visiting as many “bubble” blogs and financial blogs as I do political blogs these days.

Well, either they are gonna run the whole race and allow all the voters to have a voice…or…they are waiting for some other shoe to drop. JMHO

You are so right — the book made me laugh and cry. Many years later when I went to Vienna, I thought about it in a different light.

boa noite, LL

yes! and it reminds me that I am a patriot, NOT a hippie rabble rouser.
lol

NH inventor Dean Kamen is on Colbert. Talking about water scarcity in the future.

-G

None of this will matter if the rumors about Iran are true.

I am a patriot, NOT a hippie rabble rouser.

I like to think I can be both…*g*

everyone have their emergency stockpile, including water, for just in case?

Argh. I meant Macross Frontier not Macross Plus. Only the third tv show of it made, in 20 some years, the original of which you guys would remember as Robotech in the 80s. ^_^ This is the 25th anniversary show. Gotta love it. I got to see the 1st episode sneak preview of it back in december.. I’ve been asking ‘is it april yet?’ Ever since.

/anime geekery

I can’t begin to list them but I also loved Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest by Hitchcock and an really old Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart film, The Philadelphia Story (hilarious)

yes. i HAVE the reputation of one, am working on being acknowledged as the other! and it’s the hippie rabble rousing that saves me when i get so angry and the lack of patriotism i see around me!
hehe

We’re joing you, mr just made me a HUGE drink . Blogging while drunk, hmm may not be the best choice

Respite=Genealogy, and reading Gaines’ book “FOR LIBERTY & GLORY”, about Washington & Lafayette and the intertwined American & French revolutions. Reminds me that my ancestors had it rougher, and yet they survived and here I am. And that it’s amazing we have a country at all in the first place.

Still here? Love this whole movie.

I have my earthquake kit (home and car) ready as usual.

SciFi channel is our fav channel… SG1 and all are just great.. don’t forget Firefly we were disappointed when that went off the air, the movie Serenity is a great ending to the series

One has to find the difference between bugga, bugga propaganda or the real deal….Hell if I know…

I once had a dream involving Jim I can’t recount on the site.

Ahem.

oh yeah, we watch Adult Swim on the cartoon network.. Some of those shows are hilarious

OFG…LMFAO….

LOST

All episodes are online in HD at abc, along with podcasts and message boards. What a show.

used to be 24 hours worth of supplies
then was 72 hours worth of supplies

best now to be at least one weeks worth, and don’t forget to include your 4 legged friends supplies too

Three comedies.

Being There
Big
The Full Monty

Pach!
LOL!

Hi Christine…It’ really one of my favorites. Kind of out of character for me, but whatever. It’s just so good, I can just watch it repeatedly.

It’s heartening to see one of my critters calling for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq on my local news…! Rep. Abercrombie…!

“My, she was yar…” Hee hee.

I tend not to watch old movies made after 1950. I’ll get to them at some point. North by Northwest is good. When I visited Mount Rushmore, they were playing it in the novelty shop. Holiday (1938) is good.

I worked for the company that syndicated Robotech here in LA, Harmony Gold USA (no, not the gold mines). We used to get the most incredible fan mail from military pilots. There was one base in FL that sent letters and pictures every week. Anime fans…(shakes head in wonder). My sprout lives Miyazaki.

I recommend HBO’s ‘In Treatment.’ It is excellent TV.

I love those films too. I’ve been thinking lately that I’d like to see them. Are you anywhere near Austin, TX? Or Sacramento/Rancho Cordova, CA?

shit, I only have 72 (including 4 legged baby) We’ll have to stock up to get us to a week. thanks for the heads up

I still want to see the last bits of the season of Firefly AND Serenity. I was right pissed off with Fox for canning that show. I forgot that Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles is also airing. I think we’re mid season right now, and will get the rest later. (If fox doesn’t can THAT too.)

yes, i’m an unabashed scifi/fantasy geek. Anime and manga slake it for me most of the time nowadays. Joss Wheadon is also one of the few western director/writers i absolutely love and trust. Angel the Slayer stole my heart years back, as did Firefly when it was airing. I never quite got into the BuffyTVS worship. (I rightly call myself a spinoff W**ore, the record has yet to be proven otherwise.)

I’m laughing so hard I can’t breathe…

We also record at watch Lost in my house.

But that dream about Jim. . .

Ahem!

sorry but i downloaded that video capture thing Eli recommended on his thead and now these red, blue and yellow balloons keep twirling on my toolbar.

does that mean it is downloading every video I look at to my HD???

if so – Please Mister Wizard! Help me make it stop!

My cut off is right truly around 1950 but there are exceptions.

Hay’ell yeah…cheers…*g*

I think it has become my Christmas feel-good movie.

christmas feel good movie is a christmas story – with ralphie and the red rider bb gun

Of course I have movies that I detest
The Sound of Music

Right here in downtown Cleveland, and I was on those wood escalators!

Adore the Christmas Story.

back to movies i like:

Fargo

Yeah, us anime geeks are a strange breed. As a anime girlgeek, i’m rarer yet. The latest boom has provided room for a lot more girls to enter the fray, especially with lovely shoujou(girls) comics like Fruits Basket, and Kare Kano, and such. I was one of the girls that got into it before the 00s boom though. I think i started watching and collecting around 1996,’97. Still got the VHS sets of a few of them. An ‘oldbie’ type, i refuse to call myself an otaku as i know it’s an insult in japan. Girlgeek? Fangirl? Yes. I’ll watch near anything and can probably lecture you on the varied genre by now. *grins* I’ve ran actual panels at conventions. I won’t be running one this year, but i’ve had my hands full with personal life crises, so going as a plain old ‘guest’ this year isn’t a bad plan.

I just want my paid vacation to go geek out in Chicago for 5 solid days. Anime Central, HERE I COME! *flails happily*

the conclusion of frontline started 12 ago on the west coast

Ahh, ya can’t exclude, either “It’s a Wonderful World” or “Miracle on 34th ST”…

No, it’s not downloading anything unless you want it to. The spinning balloons means there’s video on that page you can grab-IF-you want to.

Our favorite..every X-mas! As well as the original The Christmas Carol…and Wonderful Life…we watch them all at X-mas.

there is something about ralphie that connects with me, ct. perhaps it is the era because i’m old but not that old

Thanks Suz!

I can’t hate anything with Julie Andrews in it. Such a beautiful, wonderful voice.

Yes, and how about “Lives of Others.”

favorite julie andrews movie: victor/victoria

I’m in PA. Do you have the Turner Classic Movies channel? They show them all the time. You can search the TCM website to find out when they might show them again:

http://www.tcm.com

Whichever one, Randy I think, I related to the one that couldn’t get up with the friggin’ snowsuit on…I lived that!! Like a turtle on its back. I need therapy. Waaaaahhhh.

Tied for me with S.O.B.

Yes, her best! Hilarious.

For any German speakers.. great comedy Schuhe des Manitu

Does anyone else remember “That Was the Week That Was,” a TV show with David Frost and political parody, skits, music? Circa 1964 maybe.

no way – v/v kicks s.o.b tushkie

oh I can’t stand Sound of Music but I liked Bedknobs and Broomsticks

In Najaf, protesters chanted, “Oh Nouri, you coward. You spy of the Americans” and “The army is with America…”

McLatchey on Maliki putsch.

-G

I still want to see the last bits of the season of Firefly AND Serenity.

My middle son bought the entire collection of Firefly and Serenty, the youngest is a movie nut. He has over 1000 movies in his collection, all are letter box and director’s cut versions. We have a gold mine of movies available here!!

I never saw that movie but mr tells me that it was really good

Best TV ever – loved it. I wish for the old stuff back all the time. “Sock it to me”

OMG. That’s like one of my favorite movies EVER. I was just thinking about it this morning on the way to work. It was the film that spurred my visits to Portabello Road in London, England twice. I adore that street market and want to go back yet again.

Totally mind blowing.

I like an old movie Mr Blandings builds his Dream House with Cary Grant, Myrna Loy.

Jane, from West Side Story: “America.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

I am schooled again…

Good morning pups, Suzanne, nice to see you back.

Lately, I’ve been getting into six feet under on dvd. What a brillant bunch of actors, and I’ve also been into Dexter because of the amazing Michael C. Hall. Everything is about subtle nuances with that guy.

i’m hardly in diversion from the never-ending primary being that i live here in the never never really never ending caucus lands of texas , but what’s made me turn my self away for the moment is the immediately approaching deadline to apply for medicare. i met with an insurance agent over dinner, have an appointment at the social security office tomorrow morning and will meet with the agent again tomorrow afternoon and finalize.

now back to the texas caucuses. the democratic county conventions are saturday. i’m an obama delegate from my precinct. and we had our strategy meeting last night for the convention. out of 18 wannabees who gave little speeches, i’m one of the 5 elected to go on to the state convention! i am very happy about that and if all goes as planned with the sausage making at the county convention, i’ll be a delegate to the dem state convention june 6 -7.

thursday i’ll spend the day herding our delegates to the county making sure everyone’s coming and filling in with alternates as needed.

And The Long, Long Trailer with Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Natural Born Killers

I Love Lucy

that was meant as stand alone.

ron, no i don’t have turner classics. my tv almost never gets its dust cover taken off. my friend calls it “the guppie” it’s so small.

Pulp Fiction
Good Fellas

GW
Just went through that whole Medicare/insurance thing myself and thought I was going to have a breakdown. The insurance part is still on-going, but I finally have my Medicare card in my hands. If there is a way to make a program complicated when it doesn’t need to be, the US gov’t can do it with bells on. I wish you luck.

gw, does this mean you just had or are just approaching an important birthday?

Evenin Jane and Firedogs,

just started Weeds, online

any Arrested Development devotees here ? it’s looks like it might be good

LOL cool…I thought I was the only one that liked that movie *g*

Night.

-G

g’nite gregb aka gsd

‘night, Greg.

That’s so cool that you are participating like that. Please tell us all how it goes.

Amazon has the Thin Man collection at $45 (seven movies). I’m not familiar with online renters like Netflix. Anyone know if you can rent old movies from those services?

I belong to a dexter group (I know, I need help)

Yes!

boa noite, Greg

Raising Arizona
Captain Ron
Vanishing Point

Speaking of funny things, Garrison Keeler refers to Bush as “the intellectual charity case in the White House.” I like that a lot.

i don’t know if they have the entire collection (I do, both VHS and DVD) but they have some of the titles

i was in breakdown this afternoon, completely freaking out, despondent, feeling physically awful and then a friend did a magical thing and gave me the phone number of this agent. i’ve got part a already and will apply for part b in the morning. then choose the rest with the agent. it now feels doable and like life might be worth living again. whew!

Both awesome. Gotta add
:
Reservoir Dogs
Apocalypse Now
Saving Private Ryan

raising arizona! how could i have forgotten that! love that movie

I belong to a dexter group (I know, I need help)

Does the group help?

I’ve been an animation/musical fan since i can remember, wobbs. It’s one of those things that stays true with me. The whole thing was just a wild romp of good fun. (and a real thrashing of the old stereotypes as well) The ending was rather unique in terms of disney films as well. It wasn’t completely squeaky clean, as they were prone to. I still want the DVD version of it that’s come out recently, i never did get my hands on a VHS one years ago. But Angela Lansbury is still one of my favorite actresses of the old school. She kicked total ass in the original version of The Manchurian Candidate too.

I’m only 30, but my geekery is rather widespread. ^_^;;

“I’ll be takin’ these Huggies, and whatever cash you got in the drawer…”

Network
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Memento

now, hy

lol. it helps pass the time until the new season starts

I understand that getting into Medicare part D is a very bad idea. Stay with an insurance company. Don’t know which one I will end up with and don’t care as long as it pays my prescrips.

Hmmm… Interesting…

FDIC boosts staff, eyes possible bank failures-WSJ

http://www.reuters.com/article…..9820080326

Well, i’m a tad younger than you, so that makes two of us LOL. Also huge animation fans ( I have all the Disney films on VHS and on DVD) one of my fav animation films is out of Japan, Spirited Away

will report in when i get home from the county convention. i’m hoping it’s pretty civilized in our precinct. a lot of us have all worked in dem campaigns together for many years. there are at least 3 couples who are mixed obama-clinton couples and we’ve got some agreements in place so we come out still happy to work together for our may city council races and then again for november. plus the usual environmental issues.

i love the idea of owning my own thin man dvd collection. should i get time for a real diversion, that sounds like heaven. thanks for the tip.

They’ll penalize you until you sign up for it. It’s one of the nasty little things that was signed into law. Believe me, i know. I work a pharmacy. Part D is very bad, and many sign up for it because they penalty is worse than the premium. (and later the donut hole gets them. Ugh, i hate seeing that kick in. Another nasty little tiger trap that Big Insurance laid with that.) If can afford to sign up for something else? Excellent!

I’m still in the first season. Only dvd, I don’t get it on my basic cable.

Gotta digress into some horror, just because:

Night of the Living Dead
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original)
The Fly (remake)

and of course, one of the freakiest flicks ever:

Dead Ringers, w/ Jeremy Irons

No worries, be happy../s

adding to the que – thanks

nice. you still have the second season to watch. until the new season starts, we watch old movies, foreign films and read plenty of books

Tell me somethin’ good……….

i’ll either go with a plan that includes drugs or get the cheapest drug plan as i have no prescription drugs i take and hardly ever am even willing to consider it. i’ll just get it now so it won’t cost too much later should i really need it for something.

Ooops. Forgot “The Blair Witch Project”.

I have been fascinated by the whole process. Did not know that you can’t get Medicare unless you already have insurance at the time you apply or right before. The SS office told me that they figured if you didn’t already have it, that you didn’t need it! It sounds nuts but I swear that’s what she said. It truly is a nightmare.

halloween
dawn if the dead
exorcist

universal health care
now

If you like horrow, watch Rest Stop. Chilling..

I’ve got that one on DVD too. Had it since it first came out on DVD too. I was basically cheering my head off and laughing at the sheer irony that it won the VERY first animation oscar ever. *grin* Miyazaki-san is also another of the greats out there. *sighs happily* I was amazed that it did, because the film is so very japanese centered. The entire Onsen(bath house)for the Gods is very much a shinto thing. Along with Yubaba(Grandmother) and Nanashi(No Face) as well. It still ran away with it. I was one of the few that saw it in theaters when no one had heard about it besides us nutty anime geeks. My jaw dropped right there in theater.

I also worship the composer of that movie, Hisaishi Joe. I can go on and on and on…

Oh, well, horror !

Single payer, universal healthcare…!

that didn’t scare me, just gave me a horrible headache (no nausea, though)
The Ring/Ringu (original japanese version)

i wasn’t sure of what you were saying. are you saying it’s not a good idea to get part d?

I don’t think that is accurate.

if its good enough for our soldiers and our congresscritters, its good enough for us (to paraphrase that nasty sheriff joe in arizona)

feel free, i loved the movie as well. i still watch it a few times a year *g*

another good modern horror/suspence film:

Identity

No pink undies, tho! ;-)

All 3 of the “Lord of the Rings” movies.

Does anyone else remember “Wizards”?

you got something against pink?

Here’s a brillant Québécois movie. C.R.A.Z.Y. was written by a guy my age, who lived a few blocks from the family home. I recognise so many situations we all went through. Try and find it, it’s a beautiful ride.

Or as McInsane would say, it’s good and I don’t care what anyone else thinks.

heathers

It didn’t make any sense to me either, but I promise you that’s what they said. Now some of these people are very pleasant, nice and poorly informed. I was shocked.

my understanding was that pretty much everyone gets part a (hospitalization) free. part b (other medical) costs $96 as long as you make less than about $80,000. if you make more, you pay more.

It can be, but beware the penalty for not signing up for D, and also the Donut Hole if you do. Basically the donut hole is the little fact that they pay the first 1800 or so in scripts for you. when you get over that? You then pay 2000(probably higher) of it on your own before they kick in coverage from that point on for the rest of the year until the turnover on January 1st. Then the whole thing starts over again.

It was one of the nasty things that gave us pharm techs raging headaches that first year of Medicare Part D. >_< It does a lot of good, but Big Insurance still needs its collective ass kicked for the whole scam. The whole thing could have been better set up. </p>

I’m with suzanne. Universal Health Care NOW!

we will check it out. thanks for the tip

It works for ya’ll…!

Great flick.

Arrested Development is a mixed bag, not as much heart as the Office, but it is hilarious and had lots of subversive political humor mixed in.

exactly right. keep you eye on the insurance company, though. they get somewhat careless with the facts.

thank you so much for the tutorial.

Steelyard Blues is one of my alltime favorite movies. Donald Sutherland. Jane Fonda. And Peter Boyle’s brand of insanity in that movie is delicious.

I do! I remember seeing it on video as a kidlet. Weird and striking to someone who was probably 8 when i saw it. I wasn’t scared off by it though. I saw a lot of things i probably shouldn’t have. *grin* But i didn’t scare easy for a girl, and was aware of the difference of fantasy and reality pretty early on.

I do want to see it as an adult at some point. I also saw that same director’s version of The Fellowship Of the Ring too. I think that was actually the first VHS we ever rented. *grin*

Will do my best.

Medicare is not means tested.
Last year everyone had $1120 taken out of their social security, if they were old enough for medicare. The amount taken out has been increasing each year.
It is a mistake not to do part D as soon as possible.

Actually, I believe the donut hole continues to $5500, then they’ll step back in… What a fallacy…!

Last weekend, we got the quintessential “The Ten commandments”. And no disrespect is meant when I say that Heston is a bad actor. I believe he started a school where David Caruso and Tom Cruise where first in their classes…

whole bunch of movies from brasil that i grew up with as well

He invented New Hampshire?

LMAO keanu reeves and christian slater must have enrolled shortly thereafter

the monkeys in the wizard of oz scared me when i was a kid… it took several years of seeing that movie once a year at easter to finally see all of those scary monkey scenes.

707!

I would hide when the Wicked Witch appeared.

I hate to admit it, but I liked Cruise in “Born on the 4th of July” and “Interview With a Vampire”…

G’night all. The best of all possible tomorrows to you all.

yeah. They changed it since my first little tutorial they threw at us before we started working with it live. It used to be something like 3600. Now it’s gone up(as was planned).

Oh, the director of Wizards and The Fellowship of the Ring: Ralph Bashki. I knew it’d take me a minute to dredge up his name!

okay, i’ll make sure i get drug coverage.

You have to feel bad for Dick Cheney and George and Laura Bush because no one suffers more than they

In April 2007, first lady Laura Bush asserted “no one suffers more” than the president and she do when watching television footage of the carnage in Iraq.

No one suffers more than Laura Bush when she witnesses her husband watching television

…footage of the carnage in Iraq suffering no less than anyone else

…except maybe Laura and the kids whose parents come home in a box, and those who come home mangled, and those of us who lost friends, and those of us who thought five years ago, that there was something wrong about a preemptive war

…justified with incompetent if not fraudulent evidence, although admittedly we didn’t know then what we know now.

i could handle the witch but those monkeys….

oops did i spill a well kept american secret?

I was taking lifeguard classes when I went to see Jaws. I spent two nights, in my bed, in the foetus position, wide awake, shivering. Mr. Spielberg, you make good movies…

g’nite rond

boa noite, rond

Aloha, Ron! I liked Cruise in the Gitmo film with Jack Nicholson, too!

i know people who still get upset hearing that theme when swimming in a forking swimming pool – not even the forking ocean

close encounters of the third kind

devil’s tower.i never looked at it the same again after that movie

Night ron. I have to admit I never liked Cruise. When I saw him sliding in underwear, that was it for me!

one of the most famous movie theme songs–known all over the world

The Social Security Report just came out. As with most economic reports, the MSM got it all wrong. This report actually showed the actuarial balance is improving.
Krugman has a good column on this.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.c…..s-younger/

So what’s your respite of choice from the primary that never ends?

I write things like this and then do something else. How is everyone?

Don’t go yet!
Evening Cujo!

Single payer, universal healthcare…!

If someone could write a convincing case for not using single payer, I’d go along with that, but so far that hasn’t happened. Telling insurance companies they can’t do something only works if their customers can survive being cheated.

Hey newtonusr. What’s new?

my comment died. what happened?

If you are covered by insurance that includes drugs, you do not have to participate in the gov’t donut sham. You do, however, have to obtain certification from your insurance company stating that their coverage is at least equal to that available from the gov’t (a letter, a form, whatever your co. uses). You keep it with your records and have to be able to provide it if requested. When you sign up for Medicare, there will be a box to check stating that you have adequate coverage and are refusing the government’s generous offer /s.

Upstairs, singing blues…

Yeah, we’ve done the same thing. Whipped through 10 weeks in 10 days or less. Excellent teleplays and acting. We also are loving John Adams.

Late to the thread, as per usual…

Anyway, the best thing I’ve discovered/ caught up with is

thank you very much. :)

Pam from “The Office” stars in my bud’s music video. She’s a big fan of his and offered to do this. Jenna’s super cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVpBw5V7sPU

Sorry folks – the unfunny American version of “the Office” has nothing on its older, funnier, much more betterer British cousin. Ricky Gervais is a genius.

thanks Jane, love the Office too, best thing that happened to Scranton since anthracite.

I think I just saw that Ruturd Murdoch’s 39 year-old daughter just bought The Office and some other popular TV show. She and her younger brothers have been buying up all kinds of media in recent years. Hey, monopolies aren’t so bad, right? They always work out great, so let’s just have Murdoch’s control all media throughout the world, since Papa Ruturd has been so responsible with it.