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For reasons beyond my understanding, my previous entry (in which I wrapped up reflections on my San Francisco trip and mentioned replacing the original images in the previous two entries with Dan's photos from the trip) never posted to Facebook. If you're on Facebook and following my LiveJournal blog, I suggest that you seek ( Read more... )

So here I am at home. There's no way around it, really. My vacation is officially over and I'm still on California time (although I'm starting to wonder if I'm not on California time in general as I was a relatively early riser there). My last sight of San Francisco from the airplane window was, fittingly enough, a cloud coming in to shroud the ( Read more... )

So after a few days of being here, moving around the city and being amongst its citizens, I can honestly say that if I was ever to get fed up with New York (a possibility gaining probability the older I get), I would love to live here. San Francisco certainly has its problems, no question, but the general attitude here is very different, and it's ( Read more... )

I actually don't think New Yorkers are rude, exactly, so much as that the sheer density of people in the city cause an individual to have to be gruff in order to just get to work on time. I'm used to people being nicer outside of New York, especially when going to New England. Yet the type of "nice" one finds in, say, Maine, is this sort of eerie ( Read more... )

This entry was primarily composed on my BlackBerry while in the air…

• They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one. I say any landing you can walk away from with a briefcase filled with $250,000 unmarked bills is better. Not that this had anything to do with Dan and my experience when we landed, I'm just saying…


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So this is really happening.

I'm going to take a short nap, and when I wake up, I will be on my way.

After the Gold Rush


• On Saint Patrick's Day of this year, Dan mentioned his intention to visit Aubree in San Francisco in early September (we're all old Tower folk). I commented that he would be gone for my birthday; he countered that I go with him. We ironed out the basic details with Aubree and I bought the tickets back in March ( Read more... )

PREDITORIAL


• John Debney's score to Predators was built to be a follow-up to Alan Silvestri's powerhouse score for Predator. I found it both wholly effective in the film and a very entertaining listen on La-La Land's soundtrack album. It would have rekindled my interest in the original score anyway, but then Intrada re-released a remastered edition ( Read more... )

Congratulations
A N D R E ! ! !
...on Jamie Sky your first grandchild!!!

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