"Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore." Cecil Beaton Bored Years ago, my boss used to call me at 10pm-ish now and then. At first it freaked me out, at that hour it must be important. I soon learned that she knew that I was getting home from … Continue reading Bored
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Hollywood and the Lazy Cowboy
"I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin gods who stand behind a tin star or ten cents' worth of righteous anger and justify their skill and slaughter with a self-conscious grin or a minute's worth of bad philosophy." Sam Peckinpah … Continue reading Hollywood and the Lazy Cowboy
Shirley, Judy and Renée
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." Shirley Temple Shirley, Judy and Renée Judy is set to open in a few weeks. Renée Zellweger will play Ms. Garland set in 1969, the last year of her … Continue reading Shirley, Judy and Renée
Belichick – Greatest Coach of All Time
“You get the job done or you don’t.” Bill Belichick Belichick - Greatest Coach of All Time The new season has begun! Last night the Patriots walloped the Steelers on Sunday Night Football. Coach Tomlin, of the Steelers, said that "We were not ready for Prime Time." With the addition of Antonio Brown, the Patriots … Continue reading Belichick – Greatest Coach of All Time
Settling for Less
"How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?" Charles Lindbergh Settling for Less I am still surprised that as … Continue reading Settling for Less
Fighting Entropy
“How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!” ― Diane Duane, Wizards at War Fighting Entropy Diane Duane is a terrific fantasy writer. One of her series is The Feline Wizards in which cats are running the real show behind the scenes and if we only knew! The fun of reading … Continue reading Fighting Entropy
Lovely Conspiracy
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower Lovely Conspiracy Conspiracies are fun. One takes a small single fact and then creates a … Continue reading Lovely Conspiracy
