Boxing Day and Boxing Day Eve
We had a real nice time on Boxing Day Eve: Marisa, Randy, Renee and me at Zolac Manor. Renee brought this nice noodle and vegetable dish of which I had 3 or 4 servings. The rest were drinks and cookies and crackers and carrots and celery and dip. The springerle cookies were well-received and so was Marisa's lemon meringue pie.
We had a nice chat discussing "stuff", local museums, weird pronunciations, our Theda Bara poster, Buster Keaton, the drum ghost pedal and more. Then we watched two SCTV Christmas specials.
Marisa and I celebrated the morning by exchanging gifts: Marisa gave me a very nice hat and she got some Monsters in Filmland magazines from the early 1970's including one issue that had a letter she wrote (with her picture). We enjoyed the Oregon Public Broadcasting Yule Log which I recorded from the evening before.
The whole day was so energizing that Marisa and I were up until past midnight and I even got through 14 pages of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo before deciding to turn off the light. The book, by the way, is quite readable! I want to read the book (at least the first of the 5 book series that makes up Les Miserables from a publication of 1886. I don't have the other books in the series, but I probably have it in some other book or books) before seeing any movie version of it. It will also be a good background to watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 as there are many references to the Hugo story there.
For Boxing Day I decided not to do much and followed through on that. Marisa organized beads and I looked for images on the World Wide Web of dust jackets from photo-play books I owned but for which I did not have dust jackets (my goal is to create facsimile dust jackets from the images I find).
Sorry to hear the death of three folks in television and movies:
* Gerry Anderson who did several television series I enjoyed. In the early 60's I had a lunch box for Fireball XL-5. Of course, I didn't have so much respect for the show or the lunch box that I preserved it: I plastered it with Chiquita banana stickers until there was not much showing! Thanks to Ebay, however, I have a replacement box today sans the stickers. For some reason I did not have a Fireball XL-5 thermos or I broke it somehow. Instead I had a Mercury program thermos which, I have to say, was a lot cooler than Fireball XL-5.
* Jack Klugman who portrayed Quincy, M.E. on NBC during the 1980s, one of my favorite shows of the time. I always admired his tenacity in fighting throat cancer and striving to continue to act afterwards.
* Charles Durning. He was a great character actor who could mug like no one else. I loved him in The Sting and in To Be or Not To Be.
We had a nice chat discussing "stuff", local museums, weird pronunciations, our Theda Bara poster, Buster Keaton, the drum ghost pedal and more. Then we watched two SCTV Christmas specials.
Marisa and I celebrated the morning by exchanging gifts: Marisa gave me a very nice hat and she got some Monsters in Filmland magazines from the early 1970's including one issue that had a letter she wrote (with her picture). We enjoyed the Oregon Public Broadcasting Yule Log which I recorded from the evening before.
The whole day was so energizing that Marisa and I were up until past midnight and I even got through 14 pages of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo before deciding to turn off the light. The book, by the way, is quite readable! I want to read the book (at least the first of the 5 book series that makes up Les Miserables from a publication of 1886. I don't have the other books in the series, but I probably have it in some other book or books) before seeing any movie version of it. It will also be a good background to watching Star Trek Deep Space 9 as there are many references to the Hugo story there.
For Boxing Day I decided not to do much and followed through on that. Marisa organized beads and I looked for images on the World Wide Web of dust jackets from photo-play books I owned but for which I did not have dust jackets (my goal is to create facsimile dust jackets from the images I find).
Sorry to hear the death of three folks in television and movies:
* Gerry Anderson who did several television series I enjoyed. In the early 60's I had a lunch box for Fireball XL-5. Of course, I didn't have so much respect for the show or the lunch box that I preserved it: I plastered it with Chiquita banana stickers until there was not much showing! Thanks to Ebay, however, I have a replacement box today sans the stickers. For some reason I did not have a Fireball XL-5 thermos or I broke it somehow. Instead I had a Mercury program thermos which, I have to say, was a lot cooler than Fireball XL-5.
* Jack Klugman who portrayed Quincy, M.E. on NBC during the 1980s, one of my favorite shows of the time. I always admired his tenacity in fighting throat cancer and striving to continue to act afterwards.
* Charles Durning. He was a great character actor who could mug like no one else. I loved him in The Sting and in To Be or Not To Be.