Various bits of moderate interest
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sit_good_dog the other night... let's see, it was just before Stargate SG-1....
It was pouring here, in that it's South Florida and summer (therefore, thunderstorms). I felt like getting wet, so I ran out back sans eyeglasses of course, and looked up... and a large chunk of the eastern sky I could see around our big tree was already quite clear.
Mars was sailing through clear sky, bright as anything... and it was still pouring over my head. I've never been able to stargaze in a downpour before.
Went to see Seabiscuit tonight! Interesting structure, with the narration throughout. The photography in it was stunning, but it makes me wonder -- what colour are William H. Macy's eyes, really?
My favourite part, as geeky as it sounds, is right after Billy Macy's announcement about Seabiscuit's comeback, where his Lovely Girl Assistant hits the gong... and the reverberation is cut neatly off when Red shuts off his radio. Now that is sound editing. The way they cut to the historical photos at the very beginning of the match race was also interestingly different.
Toby McG. had nice red hair, but it still doesn't match his skin tone.
Wish they'd had captions at the end -- y'know, the 'Seabiscuit went on to sire umpty-ump outstanding foals....' thing. But all in all, it's very well done and enjoyable, deserves all the word-of-mouth it's been getting.
More for the 'missing history' file... this time it's civil rights. Here's the blurb from the Diane Rehm Show's programme on a book about a surprisingly important figure:
Lost Prophet is the name of the book. Actually, it meshes well with the mention of Seabiscuit, because they lived about the same time. According to what I heard, Rustin was actually born the year before my father, in 1912. However, despite being both AfroAmerican and gay in the U.S. decades before being either of those things was even marginally acceptable in American society as a whole, this brilliant polymath took Quaker and Gandhian teachings, protested World War II, organised the March on Washington which gave Dr. King the setting for his 'I have a dream' speech, and later promoted gay rights before his death in 1987.
Brother Outsider is a film which aired on PBS this past Martin Luther King Jr. Day; and 'Remember Bayard Rustin' is a page on a gay history website which has a biographical sketch with more detail.
Thinking about getting upset about this: my Treo 270, for some reason, has decided it's too good for my SIM chip. In my particular mobile service, the phone needs this chip for activation. It stores all your phone #/settings information, passwords, etc. So right now, I have a lovely PDA with an antenna. I have no phone.
I'm going to hold off 'upset' until I can talk to T-Mobile. Must remember I'm not getting upset, so I don't get a tension headache. (I'm NOT upset.)
I betsynaesthete7'll remember the Bottoms brothers. Sam is in Seabiscuit. I nearly fell over when I saw that -- am I just horribly, horribly out of the loop or have these very visible actors of the early/mid-80s dropped just about completely out of sight?
I saw sooo many familiar faces -- Valerie Mahaffey, who's played many flaky girlfriend-types on sitcoms; Michael Ensign, who's been the uptight boss all over the tube; Michael O'Neill, who is our beloved Special Agent Ron Butterfield from The West Wing; Ed Lauter, from gawdneareverything, usually playing a military type -- remember him as the astronaut in early X-Files? and Royce Applegate, who you'd know if you saw him (SeaQuest, anyone?).
Oh.. strewth. This is funny. Wingers, you all remember the dreadful Mary Marsh, right? She's played by Annie Corley. Guess who's playing 'Ron Butterfield's wife in Seabiscuit? *snarf!* Casting coincidence or by some weird design?
Why... am I the only one not panicking about packing?
This 'Samurai Jack' special is a total Harrison Ford riff. Hee!
I got to have an interesting experience (minor scale) which I mentioned to
sit_good_dog the other night... let's see, it was just before Stargate SG-1....It was pouring here, in that it's South Florida and summer (therefore, thunderstorms). I felt like getting wet, so I ran out back sans eyeglasses of course, and looked up... and a large chunk of the eastern sky I could see around our big tree was already quite clear.
Mars was sailing through clear sky, bright as anything... and it was still pouring over my head. I've never been able to stargaze in a downpour before.
Went to see Seabiscuit tonight! Interesting structure, with the narration throughout. The photography in it was stunning, but it makes me wonder -- what colour are William H. Macy's eyes, really?
My favourite part, as geeky as it sounds, is right after Billy Macy's announcement about Seabiscuit's comeback, where his Lovely Girl Assistant hits the gong... and the reverberation is cut neatly off when Red shuts off his radio. Now that is sound editing. The way they cut to the historical photos at the very beginning of the match race was also interestingly different.
Toby McG. had nice red hair, but it still doesn't match his skin tone.
Wish they'd had captions at the end -- y'know, the 'Seabiscuit went on to sire umpty-ump outstanding foals....' thing. But all in all, it's very well done and enjoyable, deserves all the word-of-mouth it's been getting.
More for the 'missing history' file... this time it's civil rights. Here's the blurb from the Diane Rehm Show's programme on a book about a surprisingly important figure:
John D'Emilio discusses his biography of Bayard Rustin, an important figure in virtually all of the 20th century's activist movements, from civil rights to nonviolence to gay rights.
Lost Prophet is the name of the book. Actually, it meshes well with the mention of Seabiscuit, because they lived about the same time. According to what I heard, Rustin was actually born the year before my father, in 1912. However, despite being both AfroAmerican and gay in the U.S. decades before being either of those things was even marginally acceptable in American society as a whole, this brilliant polymath took Quaker and Gandhian teachings, protested World War II, organised the March on Washington which gave Dr. King the setting for his 'I have a dream' speech, and later promoted gay rights before his death in 1987.
Brother Outsider is a film which aired on PBS this past Martin Luther King Jr. Day; and 'Remember Bayard Rustin' is a page on a gay history website which has a biographical sketch with more detail.
Thinking about getting upset about this: my Treo 270, for some reason, has decided it's too good for my SIM chip. In my particular mobile service, the phone needs this chip for activation. It stores all your phone #/settings information, passwords, etc. So right now, I have a lovely PDA with an antenna. I have no phone.
I'm going to hold off 'upset' until I can talk to T-Mobile. Must remember I'm not getting upset, so I don't get a tension headache. (I'm NOT upset.)
I bet
synaesthete7'll remember the Bottoms brothers. Sam is in Seabiscuit. I nearly fell over when I saw that -- am I just horribly, horribly out of the loop or have these very visible actors of the early/mid-80s dropped just about completely out of sight?I saw sooo many familiar faces -- Valerie Mahaffey, who's played many flaky girlfriend-types on sitcoms; Michael Ensign, who's been the uptight boss all over the tube; Michael O'Neill, who is our beloved Special Agent Ron Butterfield from The West Wing; Ed Lauter, from gawdneareverything, usually playing a military type -- remember him as the astronaut in early X-Files? and Royce Applegate, who you'd know if you saw him (SeaQuest, anyone?).
Oh.. strewth. This is funny. Wingers, you all remember the dreadful Mary Marsh, right? She's played by Annie Corley. Guess who's playing 'Ron Butterfield's wife in Seabiscuit? *snarf!* Casting coincidence or by some weird design?
Why... am I the only one not panicking about packing?
This 'Samurai Jack' special is a total Harrison Ford riff. Hee!
