Weather: Solid blue sky -- two days ago we had dust devils in the parking lot -- RAIN, please!
Wildlife: Fish are jumping and waterbirds are nesting on Middle Foy's Lake.
Charity Alert: The Breast Cancer Site : Fund Mammograms for Free
Media Watch: More Indian movies, with Shahrukh Khan playing a choreographer this time, Dil To Pagal Hai (1997) with Madhuri Dixit, Akshay, and Karishma. The web says this was a "Super Hit."
Informational Site: Yash Raj Films - Dil to pagal hai
Friday, April 02, 2004
Thursday, April 01, 2004
Weather: So you thought it was spring? APRIL FOOL! It's been snowing for a few hours. The temperature is around 40+ F, so it melts right away. I'm NOT complaining -- keep on keeping on!
Wildlife: The pheasants don't mind a little snow, and the redwings woke us up with their singing. It was a surprise to see that white stuff, though!
Charity Alert: The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life
Media Watch: Finished seeing Kuch Kuch Hota Hai with Shahrukh Khan, Kajol Mukherjee, Rani Mukherjee, and Salman Khan as the finally-jilted lover of Shahrukh's beloved. What a fabulous movie!
Review: - Kajol (Mukherjee) - The Finest Actress on this Planet -
Here's a site that claims this movie was a BLOCKBUSTER:
Bollywood's Heart Throb : Shahrukh Khan
Steven King's Kingdom Hospital will move to Thursdays next week. Damn show's PLOT better start moving faster, or nobody's going to watch it.
Wildlife: The pheasants don't mind a little snow, and the redwings woke us up with their singing. It was a surprise to see that white stuff, though!
Charity Alert: The Child Health Site : Help a Child in Need Lead a Healthy, Active Life
Media Watch: Finished seeing Kuch Kuch Hota Hai with Shahrukh Khan, Kajol Mukherjee, Rani Mukherjee, and Salman Khan as the finally-jilted lover of Shahrukh's beloved. What a fabulous movie!
Review: - Kajol (Mukherjee) - The Finest Actress on this Planet -
Here's a site that claims this movie was a BLOCKBUSTER:
Bollywood's Heart Throb : Shahrukh Khan
Steven King's Kingdom Hospital will move to Thursdays next week. Damn show's PLOT better start moving faster, or nobody's going to watch it.
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Weather: What did I say about yesterday?: The Daily Internet: The Daily Inter Lake Newspaper, Kalispell, Montana 73 degrees: Flathead basks in hottest March day in history Tuesday turned out to be the hottest March day ever recorded in the Flathead Valley. Record high temperatures settled in over the valley, but the clear and warm weather was expected to be short-lived. The National Weather Service reported the temperature Tuesday at Glacier Park International Airport hit 73 degrees, topping the previous record high of 71 degrees set on March 30, 1996.
Tuesday's temperature also broke the all-time record high for the month — 72 degrees set on March 27, 1986.
Warm weather was widespread across Northwest Montana: Polebridge reached 70 degrees, West Glacier 73, Essex 70, St. Mary 72 and Swan Lake 75. Missoula's temperature reached a high of 78 degrees, smashing the record high of 71 degrees for the month. The temperature in Butte reached 68 degrees, setting a record for March 30.
The Flathead Valley's bluebird weather was expected to end by today, however. An incoming weather system was expected to bring lower temperatures and a chance of rain showers.
The high temperature was expected to reach 54 degrees today, with lows in the 30s and a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs in the 50s, considered normal for this time of year, were expected to continue through Friday. Flathead Valley precipitation continues to lag behind the 30-year historic average. As of Tuesday, the area had received .53 inches of precipitation this month, roughly half the average of 1.04 inches. Precipitation for the year is 2.78 inches, .88 inches behind the average of 3.66 inches.
Gray and cold this morning -- we need rain, but its dry so far.
Wildlife: The ice is almost gone from the lake, and the waterbirds are scattered. The pheasants are still flocking around, and the red-wing blackbirds are throwing sunflower seeds down to them, it seems.
Charity Alert: The Rainforest Site: Help Save Our Rainforests!
Media Watch: Indian movies again -- we bought a number of films starring Shahrukh Khan. KING OF BOLLYWOOD SHAHRUKH KHAN
To reach the top of this industry, a person needs to have extraordinary talent -- good looks are not enough. There's hundreds of good-looking, skillful people in every movie I've seen so far. The lead actors have a lot of competition!
Tuesday's temperature also broke the all-time record high for the month — 72 degrees set on March 27, 1986.
Warm weather was widespread across Northwest Montana: Polebridge reached 70 degrees, West Glacier 73, Essex 70, St. Mary 72 and Swan Lake 75. Missoula's temperature reached a high of 78 degrees, smashing the record high of 71 degrees for the month. The temperature in Butte reached 68 degrees, setting a record for March 30.
The Flathead Valley's bluebird weather was expected to end by today, however. An incoming weather system was expected to bring lower temperatures and a chance of rain showers.
The high temperature was expected to reach 54 degrees today, with lows in the 30s and a 30 percent chance of rain. Highs in the 50s, considered normal for this time of year, were expected to continue through Friday. Flathead Valley precipitation continues to lag behind the 30-year historic average. As of Tuesday, the area had received .53 inches of precipitation this month, roughly half the average of 1.04 inches. Precipitation for the year is 2.78 inches, .88 inches behind the average of 3.66 inches.
Gray and cold this morning -- we need rain, but its dry so far.
Wildlife: The ice is almost gone from the lake, and the waterbirds are scattered. The pheasants are still flocking around, and the red-wing blackbirds are throwing sunflower seeds down to them, it seems.
Charity Alert: The Rainforest Site: Help Save Our Rainforests!
Media Watch: Indian movies again -- we bought a number of films starring Shahrukh Khan. KING OF BOLLYWOOD SHAHRUKH KHAN
To reach the top of this industry, a person needs to have extraordinary talent -- good looks are not enough. There's hundreds of good-looking, skillful people in every movie I've seen so far. The lead actors have a lot of competition!
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Weather: Not a cloud in the sky as of 8:45 AM Sounds nice, but we need RAIN! (Snow will do.)
Wildlife: Those pheasants are thriving -- eating front and back. Our cats don't bother them (they're terrified of large birds) and the ducks graze alongside in the back yard.
Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need
Media Watch: One of the people who showed the world that broadcasting could be good has passed away at the age of 95: Alistair Cooke BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Radio legend Cooke dies
His work influenced me since I was in elementary school watching the first-unfathomable, then ever-more-interesting Omnibus. At least three times I saw Bert Lahr doing performing dramas on Sunday morning TV, thanks to that show. ("There's the cowardly lion, mom!")
I learned the deeper meaning of "point of view" in Alistair Cooke's America, and loved seeing BBC dramas re-presented on the not-always-aptly-named Masterpiece Theater.
His Letter from America was a radio show which I ran across at different times of my life, both in the U.S. and Europe. From 2000-2001 I looked forward to it every week in the lonely vigils of a 4 A.M. work shift. I never would have called him a Liberal, but he seemed to posses an objectivity that made me want to listen through any superficial disagreements. He was getting more and more conservative to my ears, though, but HEY! he was over 90, and had earned his opinions more that most of us. Here's the last few paragraphs from his last Letter from America:
"...But what President Bush's 10-point drop did to the hopeful Democrats was to let them say now, without fear, that the war was fought for a false reason, and it also generated a wholly new conviction which had little to do with the issues - the three problems which the national polls say are nationally paramount.
One: to recover the two million jobs lost during the administration. Two: reform of the healthcare system and, quite a way down, three: Iraq.
The new, invigorating party conviction is a belief the Democrats had not dreamed of so far. It is the belief that George Bush can be beaten in November.
This thought apparently took hold of the primary voters long before it dawned on the Democratic Party as a whole.
Hence the 15 out of 17 primaries won by the Massachusetts senator, John Kerry, who since the campaign's beginning has sounded an odd and lonely boast: "George Bush must be driven from the White House and I'm the man to do it."
Sublime to Ridiculous: Jan de Bont's somnambulistic version of The Haunting (1999) was on ABC. We were out cold within an hour.
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House (1959) was a masterpiece of simply-written, psychological horror. Here's an essay about her, mostly: DarkEcho/HorrorOnline
Robert Wise did a remarkable job in bringing the essence of Jackson's novel in a 1963 black and white movie called The Haunting. I could write a good deal about Robert Wise's contibutions to Sci-Fi and Horror movies -- this very important film maker has done some effective slumming in genres that may have seemed "beneath him."
A color-remake-sequel The Legend of Hell House (1973) with Roddy McDowell had some moments of quality, but not too many. Methinks Richard Mathesen was mostly writing for money.
Omigawd -- there's a play out there: SCT's The Haunting of Hill House
Adapted for the stage by F. Andrew Leslie ISBN: 0822205041 Publish Date: 1/1/1964 Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc.
Steven King's Rose Red (2003) was a better rip-off of Shirley Jackson's and Robert Wise's concepts, plus he borrowed the Winchester House.
The best crib of The Haunting IMHO was the Wynan Brothers' Scary Movie 2.
Waydadaminute -- Scary Movie 2 isn't even a good film! What gives?
Scary Movie 1 makes ME laugh. Even though it's gross and stupid, it's boisterously and gleefully so!
It was a parody of Scream 1, 2, and 3. Those flicks are supposed to be funny/suspenseful, but they bore me to distraction -- I turn 'em off.
Scary Movie 2 is also gross and stupid -- but there's far fewer funny scenes, and they're generally forced, or stolen. Is this an indictment of every imitation of The Haunting so far? YES! This dawg-assed show is STILL the nearest horseshoe to the peg.
Maybe there are some things that literature accomplishes best.
Wildlife: Those pheasants are thriving -- eating front and back. Our cats don't bother them (they're terrified of large birds) and the ducks graze alongside in the back yard.
Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site : Feed an Animal in Need
Media Watch: One of the people who showed the world that broadcasting could be good has passed away at the age of 95: Alistair Cooke BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Radio legend Cooke dies
His work influenced me since I was in elementary school watching the first-unfathomable, then ever-more-interesting Omnibus. At least three times I saw Bert Lahr doing performing dramas on Sunday morning TV, thanks to that show. ("There's the cowardly lion, mom!")
I learned the deeper meaning of "point of view" in Alistair Cooke's America, and loved seeing BBC dramas re-presented on the not-always-aptly-named Masterpiece Theater.
His Letter from America was a radio show which I ran across at different times of my life, both in the U.S. and Europe. From 2000-2001 I looked forward to it every week in the lonely vigils of a 4 A.M. work shift. I never would have called him a Liberal, but he seemed to posses an objectivity that made me want to listen through any superficial disagreements. He was getting more and more conservative to my ears, though, but HEY! he was over 90, and had earned his opinions more that most of us. Here's the last few paragraphs from his last Letter from America:
"...But what President Bush's 10-point drop did to the hopeful Democrats was to let them say now, without fear, that the war was fought for a false reason, and it also generated a wholly new conviction which had little to do with the issues - the three problems which the national polls say are nationally paramount.
One: to recover the two million jobs lost during the administration. Two: reform of the healthcare system and, quite a way down, three: Iraq.
The new, invigorating party conviction is a belief the Democrats had not dreamed of so far. It is the belief that George Bush can be beaten in November.
This thought apparently took hold of the primary voters long before it dawned on the Democratic Party as a whole.
Hence the 15 out of 17 primaries won by the Massachusetts senator, John Kerry, who since the campaign's beginning has sounded an odd and lonely boast: "George Bush must be driven from the White House and I'm the man to do it."
Sublime to Ridiculous: Jan de Bont's somnambulistic version of The Haunting (1999) was on ABC. We were out cold within an hour.
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House (1959) was a masterpiece of simply-written, psychological horror. Here's an essay about her, mostly: DarkEcho/HorrorOnline
Robert Wise did a remarkable job in bringing the essence of Jackson's novel in a 1963 black and white movie called The Haunting. I could write a good deal about Robert Wise's contibutions to Sci-Fi and Horror movies -- this very important film maker has done some effective slumming in genres that may have seemed "beneath him."
A color-remake-sequel The Legend of Hell House (1973) with Roddy McDowell had some moments of quality, but not too many. Methinks Richard Mathesen was mostly writing for money.
Omigawd -- there's a play out there: SCT's The Haunting of Hill House
Adapted for the stage by F. Andrew Leslie ISBN: 0822205041 Publish Date: 1/1/1964 Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc.
Steven King's Rose Red (2003) was a better rip-off of Shirley Jackson's and Robert Wise's concepts, plus he borrowed the Winchester House.
The best crib of The Haunting IMHO was the Wynan Brothers' Scary Movie 2.
Waydadaminute -- Scary Movie 2 isn't even a good film! What gives?
Scary Movie 1 makes ME laugh. Even though it's gross and stupid, it's boisterously and gleefully so!
It was a parody of Scream 1, 2, and 3. Those flicks are supposed to be funny/suspenseful, but they bore me to distraction -- I turn 'em off.
Scary Movie 2 is also gross and stupid -- but there's far fewer funny scenes, and they're generally forced, or stolen. Is this an indictment of every imitation of The Haunting so far? YES! This dawg-assed show is STILL the nearest horseshoe to the peg.
Maybe there are some things that literature accomplishes best.
Monday, March 29, 2004
Weather: Spring* is here -- the weeds have riz -- gardening is the order of biz!
*Montana style, that is.
Wildlife: Half the ice is off of Middle Foy's Lake. The fishereople were all over the place last Sunday -- catching the critters too. The waterbirds are pairing up, and I expect baby geese in about three weeks. The pheasants are gathered in flocks of about 6 or more.
Charity Alert: The Hunger Site : Give Food for Free to Hungry People in the World
Media Watch: Movies from India! Thank goodness for subtitles. They're long, sing-songy, stylized, unsophisticated (yeah, right!), and VERY canny in the use of these elements. Thanks to the Internet, we're getting them for a buck each.
At the College: I'm dubbing one of two tapes of Cyclone, by Ron Fitzgerald, our original, world-premiere production. A couple of students did a two-camera recording of the play, and this VHS copy is to get 'em deciding how they're going to shuffle the source tapes together. I'm not going to do the hard work, but I'm glad to help them.
Follow Up: I'm seriously scanning twenty-five year old photos and papers to begin my Theatre Web Project.
I've done quite a few Festival of Fools scans, and am concentrating on Footsbarn Theatre for the time being.
Link Review:
1) Footsbarn Theatre
2) Katie Duck; Katie Duck interview; Semi-current Advert; Mini-bio + Picture
3) Matt Child was in a move: Sudden Impact Cast
He's married to Caroline Noh, another actor: Noh Business Like Show Business
4) Hey! Our band morphed into it's own completely different group and it played here: Akbank Caz Festivali
5) This musician suffered as our manager, then built his own career: Mark Nelson's Shameless Self Promotion
6) This gentleman is/was a real delight: Peter Wear -- British Comedy Company; Here's some of his gigs with Katie, Jango, and Justin Case: London International Mime Festival/history
Here's Pete's friend Justin: Justin Case, Comedy Trick Cyclist
7) Here's the guy who got us to Europe, and more or less got the Festival of Fools in Amsterdam, Holland started (this site goes to yet another site): Jango Edwards' website
8) Charly worked with Jango off & on: Charly Jungbauer
9) How about our sponsoring organization?: De Melkweg
10) Here's a special friend of mine: Karen Quest, Cowgirl Tricks
11) These guys are good too!: Cheney and Mills
12) Patsy Droubay worked with Matt, Katie, and me. She's been doing a pantomime version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas around the Salt Lake libraries for about twenty years. Here's last Xmas' coverage in the local paper: The Salt Lake Tribune
*Montana style, that is.
Wildlife: Half the ice is off of Middle Foy's Lake. The fishereople were all over the place last Sunday -- catching the critters too. The waterbirds are pairing up, and I expect baby geese in about three weeks. The pheasants are gathered in flocks of about 6 or more.
Charity Alert: The Hunger Site : Give Food for Free to Hungry People in the World
Media Watch: Movies from India! Thank goodness for subtitles. They're long, sing-songy, stylized, unsophisticated (yeah, right!), and VERY canny in the use of these elements. Thanks to the Internet, we're getting them for a buck each.
At the College: I'm dubbing one of two tapes of Cyclone, by Ron Fitzgerald, our original, world-premiere production. A couple of students did a two-camera recording of the play, and this VHS copy is to get 'em deciding how they're going to shuffle the source tapes together. I'm not going to do the hard work, but I'm glad to help them.
Follow Up: I'm seriously scanning twenty-five year old photos and papers to begin my Theatre Web Project.
I've done quite a few Festival of Fools scans, and am concentrating on Footsbarn Theatre for the time being.
Link Review:
1) Footsbarn Theatre
2) Katie Duck; Katie Duck interview; Semi-current Advert; Mini-bio + Picture
3) Matt Child was in a move: Sudden Impact Cast
He's married to Caroline Noh, another actor: Noh Business Like Show Business
4) Hey! Our band morphed into it's own completely different group and it played here: Akbank Caz Festivali
5) This musician suffered as our manager, then built his own career: Mark Nelson's Shameless Self Promotion
6) This gentleman is/was a real delight: Peter Wear -- British Comedy Company; Here's some of his gigs with Katie, Jango, and Justin Case: London International Mime Festival/history
Here's Pete's friend Justin: Justin Case, Comedy Trick Cyclist
7) Here's the guy who got us to Europe, and more or less got the Festival of Fools in Amsterdam, Holland started (this site goes to yet another site): Jango Edwards' website
8) Charly worked with Jango off & on: Charly Jungbauer
9) How about our sponsoring organization?: De Melkweg
10) Here's a special friend of mine: Karen Quest, Cowgirl Tricks
11) These guys are good too!: Cheney and Mills
12) Patsy Droubay worked with Matt, Katie, and me. She's been doing a pantomime version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas around the Salt Lake libraries for about twenty years. Here's last Xmas' coverage in the local paper: The Salt Lake Tribune
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