Last night we saw the 1984 Brian DePalma film "Body Double" with Melanie Griffith and Greg Wasson or Chris Wassen or Craig Wasson, an actor who might look vaguely familiar, but not so you could name him.  I say this as someone who watched the credits at the end and remarked, "Omagosh, Carol was Barbara Crampton!"  How did I not recognize her; she ( Read more... )

Have been talking long distance, via email with a former kaffeeklatsch buddy, discussing how to do the right thing and still get ahead. Nothing was really decided, of course.

So I voted we just go to The Happy Thought of The Day. Here's mine:

Dream from this morning. A short man with a curly ginger beard had it styled and partitioned in a such ( Read more... )

Within all of us there is the capacity to be anyone, or anything, and that’s the place where compassion comes from, that understanding that I could be like that, if circumstances had been different. There is an Iago and a Romeo within all of us - there is that lover, and there is that sociopath ( Read more... )

Noting for posterity that the Old Spice Guy, Isaiah Mustafa, won the internet hunk-off with former romance-cover model FabioI mention this because while it is true that I can be occasionally saturnine, I still laugh more than some, and Mr. Mustafa doing the Old Spice commericials reliably makes me guffaw in a snorting embarrassing way. Not quite ( Read more... )

Saw Thor in 3D in regular D, but in a theatre.

Let's see - Odin played by Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman as the heroine, and Chris Hemsworth as the Norse god of thunder, Rene Russo as Odin's wife.

Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Hm. J Michael Strazinsky got some writing credit. Hm.

( Best part of the movie - )

The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas, as performed by actor James Mason and a pirate.

http://www.theymightbegiants.com/news/pirate-james-mason/

Only funny if you like TMBG and pirates.

On vacation, on Easter Sunday, in fact, I took the Seattle Underground Tour ( Read more... )