I bet a lot of my fellow LOST watchers have been eagerly awaiting Jorge's new show [or 'JJ Abram's new show', or 'Jack Bender's..'  ..well, the gangs all here!], and I know they are NOT feeling disappointed. "Alcatraz" has its own comm now, and you can go there with this link:

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Lately, I've been on a Bogart appreciation arc, from re-reading 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'The Big Sleep' with my own film adaptations running in my head--[in my versions, Mary Astor would not make an adequate femme fatale, and the censors would have cut 'The Big Sleep' to ribbons if the script had more resembled the book]--to watching every Bogart ( Read more... )

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....at occupywriters.com.  This contribution from Lemony Snicket is brilliant--

Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance

1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t ( Read more... )

Hey Friends and Sistahs:  I inherited by father's collection of slides, mostly 35mm Kodachrome, which includes hundreds if not thousands of photos he took for his own use during his service with the US Dept. of Agriculture.  He traveled all over the US in the 1960's and 70's gathering crop statistics directly from the farms.  He made these photos ( Read more... )

I read all of the books in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" a few years ago, and towards the end, I found this gem of wisdom, humor and life-affirming spirit--


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I've just finished reading 'Around the World in 80 Days' by Jules Verne. It is extremely charming, and I loved it. Here is the cover of the paperback edition I read--


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I know that I have a couple of friends on LJ who like to know what I've been reading.  I've been reading voraciously since my husband was gone for a month working overseas, and even now that he's back, with the kids out of school, my time seems less strained and I can sneak in a few pages here and there during the day.  Forget reading in bed at ( Read more... )

 I just finished re-reading Philip Roth's book of one novella and five short stories, 'Goodbye, Columbus.'.......or did I?  I loved the movie 'Goodbye, Columbus' as a kid because I loved Ali McGraw, but most of it was over my head, and it didn't help that on TV, the only place I would have seen it, it was cut to shreds.  So when I say I read the ( Read more... )