I will be staying on LJ.

I do have an account on Dreamwidth (also under carabele user name), but I don't see myself ever becoming really active there.

On my way into work this morning, I saw a couple of buses traveling in downtown Manhattan with side billboards for the new Man from U.N.C.L.E. movie!

How cool is that!!!

So PAN AM shows an episode yesterday that was distinctly out-of-order and that was distracting. I don't know how they expect to attract people to the series if they do that type of thing. In particular this episode, with its emphasis on Laura trying to decide about losing her virginity, was weird out-of-order as we already know she had a casual ( Read more... )

Very disappointing that you can no longer sort the entries alphabetically on the bookmark setup of the new Delicious.

Going to make it more difficult to see if a story you want to rec on crack_van has been rec'd before, since authors often have more than one pseudonym.

My, but the EMMY AWARDS show was abysmally boring last night. And much of it tasteless as well, with most of the not-only-politically-incorrect but virtually insulting jokes falling flat as pancakes.

That gal from GLEE (whose name I don't even know) was hopeless as emcee. Her jokes were in the main the height of tasteless, and her opening number ( Read more... )

Scriptwriter Scott Z. Burns did an interview earlier this week about the opening Soderbergh film CONTAGION. During the interview he was asked a couple of questions about the slated MFU movie. Here are those questions and his answers:

Having worked with Steven for as long as you have, what do you make of all this talk about his retirement from ( Read more... )

In my office in downtown Manhattan (right across the street from South Street Seaport), the building shook quite violently ( Read more... )

Criminy, I now have 8 codes!

If you need one, PM me.

...so I didn't have to slosh into Manhattan through the snow/sleet/rain mix that was expected. But here in Jersey City, it's actually been all snow since at least 9:00am (the time I got up, so don't know how early the snow actually started) and they have lowered the expected high temp for the day (it's almost 1:30pm now and the temp is still at ( Read more... )

Everybody probably already knows this except me [chuckle], but I found it interesting that Solo is the name of a popular racing dinghy originally designed in 1956.

Here's a pic:

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